When to Rack to Secondary

[11amas]

My personal opinion is some time before 4 weeks. On a cake up to 3 weeks or so and I don't think I am pulling nasty flavors into my beer. My ales are normally in their corny by 3wk. Lagers, I run about 3-3.5 and then rack to either a 5gal carboy if I am lagering and think a ton of stuff will drop out or into a corny to lager if it is pretty clear. Most of them go to corny. Now I am having some issues with cloudiness so I think I will start trying gelatin or isinglass, then jumpering to another purged corny.

The conical just nailed me in the eye so don't be too jealous; I will be explaining a possible black eye for a week! Pressure...yeah, should have let that out...

[henrythe9th]

Henry so you go from primary to secondary crash cool and then to your keg. I don't know how you are racking but it seems that is quite a bit of exposure to oxygen as well.

I use CO2 to transfer everything no more sucking I have made up some adapters to push the beer from carboy/buckets to cornys,, after purging the Oxygen out

[brewinhard]

[quote="kpt982"]Dry hopping at Day 6! My pliny clone is gassing balls at that point. Seems like I would lose a lot of hop.



6 days is just when I typically do it based on when the fermentation starts to slow down a bit. Right about 6 bubbles a minute in my airlock and then I will add the hops. You don't want to wait till there is no airlock activity b/c then you will be adding oxygen into your fermenter. Obviously with a DIPA at a higher gravity than the day/time to add your dry hops will probably be a bit later in the fermentation than 6-7 days.

[11amas]

Wouldn't you have a CO2 blanket covering the beer and not have to worry much about mixing in some O2? I like to wait until my yeast has pretty much dropped. The hop oils really aren't good for the yeast from what I hear but maybe more so for reproduction than eating the remaining sugars.