Worth it to rack to secondary for 3 days

[konaniko]

I have a rouge dead guy ale kit in primary. It has been there for 2 1/2 weeks has a steady FG 1.016. My question is would it do any good to rack to secondary for 3 days? I plan on bottling on Sat and have some time today to rack. I know the point of secondary but I am unsure if this amount of time will be worth the effort. Any thoughts?

 

[jerryalan]

Nope. Leave it alone in the primary. Rack it to your bottling bucket on Saturday and go from there. No need to introduce more oxygen to the beer. I'd only secondary if I were to dry hop or add things like fruit.

 

[JLem]

nope - just leave it be. I would only recommend using a secondary if you are adding fruit or oak or some other flavor element, or going to lager or bulk age it. Maybe dry hopping too, but I'm on the fence with that one.

Just leave it alone and bottle on Sat as planned.

 

[donjr721]

you are still wanting to rack it, aren't you. i know it isn't recommended, but i always do, just to be doing something with it, maybe that urge will go away as soon as i get some 6.5 gallon carboys. i just like to see it. that's just me. but these guys are right, you could risk oxidation, or infection. i'm gonna keep on rackin

 

[waldoar15]

About the only time I use a secondary is with Kolsch and that's just so I can hit it with gelatin and don't want to do it in primary because I wash the yeast. Or Lagers, because they are slow and jam up my pipeline.