| Re: when to rack to secondary (by eyeball...) Joe Murphy <spamthis@spam.com> wrote:
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> My typical brewing schedule is to rack to primary, wait about
> a week and then rack to secondary for another week.
>
> However every time I rack to secondary it appears that nothing
> ever happens in the airlock. Should I rack to secondary earlier
> in the process to jumpstart a second fermentation process?[/color]
You don't own an hydrometer?
All bubbles in an airlock indicate is that the secondary is
sealed.
The 'secondary fermentation process' is for 'conditioning'.
Minimal fermentation should be taking place in the secondary.
See: [url]http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter8-2-3.html[/url]
Dick |