secondary?

[imacoming]

Does anyone else skip this step?
I want to try dry hopping my current brew and wonder if the secondary is nessessary.

[seanhagerty]

I don't secondary any more. I primary and then into the keg. If I am dry hopping, I put them in a hop sock and throw them in the keg. Do NOT throw them in there loose...ask me how I know!


Sean

[dan.lamb]

I don't secondary. Jamil talked about this on one of the shows. I'll try to look up which one after my hangover is gone.

[baltobrewer]

Straight from primary to keg for me too... Secondarying is just another opportunity for infection and oxidation.

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

I no longer secondary because I got a kettle with a spigot that leaves the trub behind, and I am a lazy SOB.

But if I were to dry hop with pellets without a hop bag, I would add the hops for the proper length of time and rack the beer into secondary for a few days to settle to the bottom. And I definitely would secondary with a fruit beer.

[Bugeater]

I seldom do a secondary anymore for a couple of reasons. First, it isn't really necessary most of the time. Second, I'm basically lazy. If I go directly from primary to keg I don't have as much shit to clean up as I do when I add a secondary step in there.

I do a secondary when I have a beer that has fruit or is extremely slow to clear that I want to enter in a competition.

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company

[Sent From My iPhone]

Primary--->Keg--->Maybe to a second keg if I dry hop or if it's a lager.

[mexicanham]

Secondary is for losers. (Unless you're bottle conditioning in which case you may want to dry hop in a secondary.)