Using secondary for wheat beer????

[psuicers]

Hello all, I'm a fairly new brewer who just got done putting a cherry wheat into a secondary after letting it sit 2 weeks in the primary. I just added the cherry extract and then siphoned into a secondary. After reading various posts, it seems that wheat beers are ment to be bottled "young". My local brew shop guy said he always goes by the 2 weeks primary, 2 week secondary, and 2 week bottles motto for all his beers. Basically I'm just wondering if this is an ok saying to go by or should I put the wheat beer in bottles already? Thank you in advance for all the help...

 

[logan3825]

I usually primary for 4 weeks then bottle. Starting at 3 weeks I open a bottle a week until it is ready.

 

[jonmohno]

I would let the extract mellow with it in secondary 1 week,probably would have been ok just to add the extract at week 2 primary only and let it sit another week then bottle.Secondary is fine but alot of people find its as good only doing another week or two in primary.

 

[tmurph6]

You're going to probably hear many different ways of accomplishing the same goal. At the end of the day, one opinion probably isn't much better than another. I would do 10 day primary then rack to secondary on top of the extract and let it go for 2 weeks, then bottle condition for 2 or 3 weeks. Just my .02 though.

 

[psuicers]

That's exactly what I thought. There is no right/wrong answers I guess. Just a matter of personal preference. So I guess I'll just let it sit in there for 2 weeks total and then bottle. Thanks everyone for your thoughts.