What is this thing in my secondary!?

[Jaehnig]

He will probably break out of my secondary and brew his own batch soon.

 

[ChessRockwell]

Really strange... Are you sure you're not just making kombucha and are pulling our legs?

Haha, that's what I was going to say. I get those all the time in my Kombucha jars.

And I totally see the boxer in the first pic.

 

[Brulosopher]

What in the world is a secondary?!

 

[Jaehnig]

What in the world is a secondary?!

Secondary fermenter. The vessel my beer is currently contained in or is this a joke?

 

[TheMerkle]

It's a joke. A lot of the guys here are pretty avidly against secondary transfers.

 

[Brulosopher]

Secondary fermenter. The vessel my beer is currently contained in or is this a joke?

 

[Jaehnig]

To each his own. I can respect that.

 

[bottlebomber]

It's a joke. A lot of the guys here are pretty avidly against secondary transfers.

Screw them unless you have a the luxury of a keg set up where you can blast out the first couple nasty pints, or you love to hold your autosiphon over the cake while you try to suck as much beer out as possible while also sucking a crap load of trub into your bottling bucket, secondaries are the way to go. I can't think of a dirtier way to brew than dry hopping in primary in a carboy, as an extreme. I like as little crud in my bottles as possible.

 

[Brulosopher]

Screw them unless you have a the luxury of a keg set up where you can blast out the first couple nasty pints, or you love to hold your autosiphon over the cake while you try to suck as much beer out as possible while also sucking a crap load of trub into your bottling bucket, secondaries are the way to go. I can't think of a dirtier way to brew than dry hopping in primary in a carboy, as an extreme. I like as little crud in my bottles as possible.

Feisty!

Yeah, I guess my kegs serve as secondary/cold condition vessels. But I've bottles from primary and gotten some clean, bright beers. Meh.

 

[Revvy]

Screw them unless you have a the luxury of a keg set up where you can blast out the first couple nasty pints, or you love to hold your autosiphon over the cake while you try to suck as much beer out as possible while also sucking a crap load of trub into your bottling bucket, secondaries are the way to go. I can't think of a dirtier way to brew than dry hopping in primary in a carboy, as an extreme. I like as little crud in my bottles as possible.

After a month in primary I get NO crud in my bottles. I've never needed to cold crash either......My beer's CLEARER than when I used to secondary. Even with dry hopping in primary.

 

[Rowdy]

After a month in primary I get NO crud in my bottles. I've never needed to cold crash either......My beer's CLEARER than when I used to secondary. Even with dry hopping in primary.

gonna second that, 30 days in primary everything is crystal clear, can drop the siphon directly on to the yeast cake and nothing gets to bottling bucket..

 

[bottlebomber]

After a month in primary I get NO crud in my bottles. I've never needed to cold crash either......My beer's CLEARER than when I used to secondary. Even with dry hopping in primary.

What can I say reverend... You've got the magic touch. I've been racking onto finings a lot lately, cold crashing for 2 weeks, and the beers have been coming out looking filtered. I guess if you can get the same results with just the primary I'm quite impressed.

 

[Jaehnig]

Now let's get back to the real issue on hand, Herbert. Here is an up to date photo and one of the crew:

V/R,
BrewTech

 

[Revvy]

I was just going to ask how our little friend was doing.

 

[divrguy]

I was just going to ask how our little friend was doing.

Looks like he's growing quite the set of....

 

[Jaehnig]

Looks like he's growing quite the set of....

Yes he certainly does. They swing low oh sweet chariot.

 

[Pilgarlic]

Viable (and visible) loogie colony.

 

[Hellosluggo]

I see eyes looking back at me from within your carboy. That's creepy...

 

[Jaehnig]

I just hope he doesn't finish my beer without me. Do you think he is a threat?