Hi all. I am brewing a Belgian Cherry from Zymergy Jul/Aug 15. I have racked the beer to a secondary on top of the cherry purée. It has been a week and the yeast has made its way about 1/3 of the way into the layer of purée. My question is, should I very gently stir up the purée on the bottom to allow the yeast to reach it all or will it happen naturally?
To stir or not to stir
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I am brewing a Belgian Cherry ale and the instructions were to rack the beer on top of cherry purée after initial fermentation was complete. I allowed the beer to remain in the primary for two weeks and then racked on top of the purée a week ago. I can see areas where the yeast has burrowed into the purée but there is still over half of the layer that is undisturbed. should I gently stir the purée or just leave it alone for several more weeks?
If there is sugar there, the yeast will find it. I suspect that the yeast found all the sugars and was done eating them by the second day and is now settling out.
Has active fermentation taken off? If yes, I'd leave it. If no, I'd swirl it around.
