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jasonsbeer

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With what I'm reading here, many of you leave the wort in the primary for the entire fermentation and clarification time, skipping a secondary, then bottle or keg from there.

My first AG is currently sitting very patiently to be bottled. It's Biermuncher's Wit, and my plan is to leave it in the primary for 3 - 4 weeks and then bottle.

Question: For bottling, when you use the primary for the entire fermentation and clarification process, where do you prime? Do you transfer the wort to a bottling bucket where you bulk prime? Do you do a "straight addition" prime right in the primary?

Thanks in advance
 
I rack to a bottling bucket on top of boiled priming solution (4-5oz dextrose in 16 oz water). Give it a gentle stir and bottle. I think 3-4 weeks is longer than you need for a Wit.

Dumping priming soluion in primary and stirring up a bunch of sediment sounds messy and, well, gross.
 
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