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Separation in secondary
Hi,
I have racked to a secondary glass carboy after primary fermentation in a plastic vessel. I have unusual separation happening. After only one day I noticed three separate layers. One dark on top, one medium , then on bottom the trub. Is this normal ? What is going to happen when I bottle. Do I need to mix two top layers ? Is this separation going to happen after carbing ? Will is separate in pressurized keg ?
Thanks for help
This is the normal settling of beer. When you rack it to secondary, a bunch of sediment gets pretty evenly distributed in the beer. Then it slowly settles. The lighter color is yeast and other debris. It is darker at the top and lighter at the top because that stuff has dropped from the top towards the bottom.
There's nothing special you need to do. Do not mix it back up. Best to let it settle to minimize solids in the packaged beer.
Cool . It seems the top band is moving down. So your 100% right.
When it is all settled I should begin bottling and kegging, right ?
Thanks !
it's "clearing". the fermentation has slowed or stopped and yeast settles to the bottom of the carboy creating the different layers you discribed. when it clears to the bottom to where all you see is trub then you're pretty close to done fermenting. at that point take a gravity reading to see if it is near the target Final Gravity range.
DC
AJShoe_brew wrote:
Cool . It seems the top band is moving down. So your 100% right.
When it is all settled I should begin bottling and kegging, right ?
Thanks !
Just for the record, I wouldn't have bothered with the secondary if you are kegging it. You could have kegged and chilled it down. Then draw the first couple pints with low pressure and you would have drawn most of the gunk out and been ready to go. Then you could bottle from there off the keg.
Doing the secondary is fine, but when you are kegging it really is an unnecessary step. In fact, you are doing the same step twice.
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