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’ve been doing my high gravity Pliny clone, and it’s been in the primary for going on it’s 13th day.
Should I have pulled it after 7 days?
I swear Northern Brewer says 2 weeks primary, 2 weeks secondary and 2 weeks in the bottle.
Help!!
Thanks,
Dan
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You’re fine. Secondary is just to help with clarification. Keeping it on the cake for 4 weeks and you’d still be fine... RDWHAHB
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Keep it it the primary until fermentation is done and then wait a couple more days. Transfer to the secondary (with dry hops) for 5-7 days and then bottle with 2-2.5 volumes of C02 or appropriate amount of corn sugar. It will be good after 2 weeks in the bottle but much better at 4 weeks.
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Awesome, thanks.
Do you guys throw your pelets in, or do you sack them up?
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I toss mine in, they settle out with the second yeast cake
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I use a Better Bottle and sack mine up with a "loop" to catch under the spigot (keeps them in suspension). When I used a normal carboy I used to bag them with a couple marbles inside to keep them on the bottom. Keeping them closer to the bottom extracts more hoppy aroma IMHO.
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How’d you get them to settle out? mine always hang out on top and I push the siphon through them...
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I’ve never had a problem with leaving beer in the primary "too long." If you taste a sample of your beer and it seems to have a buttery/butterscotch taste or a slick feel you’re probably rushing the process and haven’t left time for a diacetyl rest. Unless you’re brewing a beer where some level of diacetyl is expected.
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Last week I bottled an all grain PtE clone. (I think I messaged you about the extract kit, but I saw the all grain recipe and decided to try it out). It called for the first dry hop addition which lasted 12-14 days and a second dry hop that lasted 5 days. I used all pellets and they all settled out in the secondary. Now just waiting for it to carbonate. Seemed pretty good when I tried it during bottling.
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More Beer was telling me 1 week in the primary 1 week in the secondary and 2 weeks in the bottle. Jive talk I say.
Anyway, I have my fermenter in my bedroom with a blow off hose going to a tupperware pitcher. To get to sleep, I count the seconds in between GLUGS. I’m almost at 60 seconds between GLUGS. So that means I’m not quite done yet in the primary eh?
As for the dry hopping I want the most bang for my buck, so would I by anything by putting the pellets in the secondary before racking to it?
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In my experience, the hops become nucleation points for the CO2 to come out of solution and cause the beer to fizz. I just chuck them in after racking and it seems to work pretty well.
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