I know this is probably common sense to most of you but im new to
homebrewing and i was wondering if it would be ok to my second stage
in a glass carboy and then just bottle it out of that. Will if effect
the carbanation or anything else like that? any help will be
appreaciated.

Cracker66 wrote:[color=blue]
> I know this is probably common sense to most of you but im new to
> homebrewing and i was wondering if it would be ok to my second stage
> in a glass carboy and then just bottle it out of that. Will if effect
> the carbanation or anything else like that? any help will be
> appreaciated.[/color]

I am not quite sure what you are asking. A longer time spent in
secondary fermentation will descrease the amount of sediment you have,
and to a certain extent stablize and mature your beer before it goes
into the bottle.

If you want sediment FREE beer, you are probably going to have to filter
it. If you want less sediment:
1) Put it in a secondary fermenter for longer (2 weeks+) (depends on the
yeast and beer)
2) Apply a clarifying agent such as gelatin.
3) Tertiary ferment. (?) (I've done this before, but one has to be
careful, because the more you move your beer, the more oxygen it gets,
which is BAD once the beer has gone through its initial fermentation.
One way to minimize this is to put the hose at the bottom of the
destination carboy and keep it immersed as long as possible once filling
is initiated.

HTH,
Steve

But You will allways have sediment in your bottles if you want the beer to
carbonate in the bottle..

You can keg the beer, force carbonate, wait for the beer to clear and then
fill bottles from the keg with a counter pressure filler...
Then you'll have sediment free / clear beer.

Cheers
Kasper
Denmark


"Steven Hay" <hays@nospam.net> skrev i en meddelelse
news:3gssb.42185$p9.17580@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...[color=blue]
> Cracker66 wrote:[color=green]
> > I know this is probably common sense to most of you but im new to
> > homebrewing and i was wondering if it would be ok to my second stage
> > in a glass carboy and then just bottle it out of that. Will if effect
> > the carbanation or anything else like that? any help will be
> > appreaciated.[/color]
>
> I am not quite sure what you are asking. A longer time spent in
> secondary fermentation will descrease the amount of sediment you have,
> and to a certain extent stablize and mature your beer before it goes
> into the bottle.
>
> If you want sediment FREE beer, you are probably going to have to filter
> it. If you want less sediment:
> 1) Put it in a secondary fermenter for longer (2 weeks+) (depends on the
> yeast and beer)
> 2) Apply a clarifying agent such as gelatin.
> 3) Tertiary ferment. (?) (I've done this before, but one has to be
> careful, because the more you move your beer, the more oxygen it gets,
> which is BAD once the beer has gone through its initial fermentation.
> One way to minimize this is to put the hose at the bottom of the
> destination carboy and keep it immersed as long as possible once filling
> is initiated.
>
> HTH,
> Steve
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