MikeyBycrikey Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Evening all, googled this but got 20 different opinions and I trust you guys so here goes. Making a pumpkin beer and the recipe calls for a clearing week in a secondary. My question is, is it ok to add a boiled sugar solution to the secondary to bulk prime or would it be best to rack to a third...ary over the solution. Do you generally get much of a trub in the secondary or? I figure it'd be best to minimise handling when it came to a third fermenter for fear of contaminating this amazing liquid. Cheers : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenrikF Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 As I understand it, the reason for racking into second fermenter is so that you can mix in sugar for priming. As this is for clearing (ie. things going to the bottom?) I would rack into third for priming..! Make sense?[biggrin] By the way, how about a recipe for the pumkin ale? and is it something along the line of the Dogfish Head Punkin Ale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Its my understanding that the punkin needs to ne added to a mash to allow starch conversion from the enzymes in the grain.. Dunno how you go about this on a kit brew... Unless im reading something wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyBycrikey Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 here's the recipe http://www.thebrewsite.com/pumpkin-ale-recipe/ . The closest I've got to Dogfish Head is watching Beer Wars sorry. Tasted pretty interesting when I tested OG. Like, rather than being a late taste like hops sometimes. It started pumpkiney and ended pumpkiney. P.S did the partial mash method Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien E1 Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 I'd just leave it longer in the primary then rack and prime in a secondary as normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Eh!L Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Hi Mike, For every brew I make I rack it twice. From the primary(this is where you do your dry hopping loose). After a week or two it's racked to a secondary carboy (this is where the brew is removed from the trub). After a couple of days to settle again rack it to your bottling bucket for bulk priming. By moving your brew from the Primary FV to a secondary it frees up your FV for the next batch and you can bottle when convenient for you.[cool] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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