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Primary ferment
I like the 1-2-3 method also. Secondary fermentation is the best way to ensure the quality beer we all love. Sometimes I do bad things and my conditioning doesn't make it to the 3 mark... Let's all give a BIG BEER BELCH TO stunted yeasties! WOOHOO!
Conical snobs are mean... but they do have pretty white goats.
thirsty wrote:
The next few nights are supposed to be in the 40s-50s and i am leaving my windows open so I dont have to run the AC during the day.
Wow! And we're dipping into the '90s here..
Tomato wrote:
Conical snobs are mean... but they do have pretty white goats.
I tend to primary in plastic for at least a week, and I don't usually check the grav until I transfer to 2ndary or bottle. The only instances I have to check the gravity before transferring is when the fermentation goes on without my seeing it, and it's been a week or so then I'll check it to see where I'm at. So far I've transferred every beer I've brewed to a 2ndry glass carboy with good results. I'm working on a raspberry wheat right now which I plan on dry-hopping in primary for an extra 10 days which will put it at about 2.5 weeks in primary then I'll rack to 2ndry for a week or 2. Lately I've been using the coopers drops for priming and they work great, the only drawback is their a bit more expensive than corn sugar.
Tomato wrote:
I like the 1-2-3 method also. Secondary fermentation is the best way to ensure the quality beer we all love. Sometimes I do bad things and my conditioning doesn't make it to the 3 mark... Let's all give a BIG BEER BELCH TO stunted yeasties! WOOHOO!
Conical snobs are mean... but they do have pretty white goats.
I've never made it three weeks!!! 
I use the "when I get to it" or "I want my bucket" method. LOL
For the most part I stick to a 1-2-3 schedule like many people do, but I've been known to go 1-2-2 and 1-1-4 depending on what I am making and on what effects I am trying to acheive.
My biggest problem is bottling room. I love the whole process (yes, even bottling it) and I ALWAYS want to make something new but I don't drink too often (or much when I do... it's MAKING the beer I enjoy drinking it) (yes, yes, I know, sacrilege...)
The people in my dept. love it when I start running low on bottles because they know that means I will be bringing in beer with orders to "Drink this... and gimme my bottle back."
WOW!!! I guess I jump the gun.
I rack to secondary after two days of no activity in my blowoff line. I brew in 5g plastic water bottles, of which I have an endless supply so i just use a new one for every step. My secondary bottle lids are drilled for an S type airlock which I only fill half way. I'll let this stage go until there is no activity in the airlock and from then on out it's an every 3 day SG measurement until I get 3 readings in a row that are the same (9 days). Then into the bottle. My problem isn't waiting for it to be ready to bottle. it's once I bottle it I can't seem to keep my grubby mitts out of it until it's conditioned properly.
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