Hi all,
The wife got me a True Brew Gold kit for Christmas and I'm getting ready to make my first batch (Amber). She also picked up the book How To Brew (John Palmer), which is really helpful. However, between the kit instructions (which are vague at best) and the book, I'm trying to figure out what vessel to ferment in. It came with a glass carboy and a plastic bucket with a spigot hole and a lid with an airlock hole. The book refers to the the glass container as a secondary fermenter. There are all sorts of stoppers, a racking tube, and an airlock in the kit.
So, do I ferment in the glass vessel and use the plastic one for bottling? Does it matter? I was originally going to use just the plastic bucket but then it seems as though I'd have to transfer the beer to the glass and back to the plastic again for bottling.
And, if I do my fermentation in the glass, how do I mix in yeast when the time comes? It says to lightly stir it in but there's no way I'm getting a spoon into the the neck of the glass carboy? Like I said, the instructions are not very clear and I want to get it right.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers-jrd
The wife got me a True Brew Gold kit for Christmas and I'm getting ready to make my first batch (Amber). She also picked up the book How To Brew (John Palmer), which is really helpful. However, between the kit instructions (which are vague at best) and the book, I'm trying to figure out what vessel to ferment in. It came with a glass carboy and a plastic bucket with a spigot hole and a lid with an airlock hole. The book refers to the the glass container as a secondary fermenter. There are all sorts of stoppers, a racking tube, and an airlock in the kit.
So, do I ferment in the glass vessel and use the plastic one for bottling? Does it matter? I was originally going to use just the plastic bucket but then it seems as though I'd have to transfer the beer to the glass and back to the plastic again for bottling.
And, if I do my fermentation in the glass, how do I mix in yeast when the time comes? It says to lightly stir it in but there's no way I'm getting a spoon into the the neck of the glass carboy? Like I said, the instructions are not very clear and I want to get it right.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers-jrd