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Scott Morales
Junior Member
Username: Smutty
Post Number: 70
Registered: 09-2005
Posted From: 208.252.62.130
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 02:14 pm: | 
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Hey guys,
It's been really tough to find time lately, so it's going to be difficult for me to rack a brew out of primary into a secondary for about a week. At that point the beer would have been in primary for about 2.5 - 3 weeks. This is the same beer that I cited in this thread:
http://hbd.org/discus/messages/1/34658.html?1137042238
Does anyone think this will have a detrimental affect?
TIA
Scott |
davidw
Senior Member
Username: Davidw
Post Number: 1393
Registered: 03-2001
Posted From: 65.163.6.62
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 02:26 pm: |
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If you read my post in that thread I mentioned an IPA that I just kegged that had been in the primary for 35 days. It is only slightly carb'ed (as of last night) and tastes excellent.
I would say skip the secondary and rack directly into the keg.
Your beer should be fine. |
Scott Morales
Junior Member
Username: Smutty
Post Number: 71
Registered: 09-2005
Posted From: 208.252.62.130
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 02:39 pm: |
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Yeah, David I saw your post, but your OG was much higher than mine so I wasn't sure if you kept it in there for 35 days b/c yours needed that amount of time for the yeast to do its job completely.
I never brewed with an OG that high....yet;0)
Scott |
Doug Pescatore
Senior Member
Username: Doug_p
Post Number: 1737
Registered: 10-2002
Posted From: 141.232.1.1
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 02:48 pm: |
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No worries |
davidw
Senior Member
Username: Davidw
Post Number: 1394
Registered: 03-2001
Posted From: 65.163.6.62
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 03:02 pm: |
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My altbiers typically have an OG of 50-55 and it is not unusual for me to leave them in the primary 2-3 weeks. |
John Ferens
Junior Member
Username: John_ferens
Post Number: 61
Registered: 05-2003
Posted From: 192.104.24.222
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 03:05 pm: |
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What is it that "they" say? Oh yeah, "Relax and Have a Home Brew" - all is well. I and many others often do the equivalent of this, and for longer periods of time, whenever we ferment in a conical.
Cheers!
John. |
Ken Anderson
Senior Member
Username: Ken75
Post Number: 1325
Registered: 11-2002
Posted From: 69.168.141.10
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 03:26 pm: |
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It's funny how different brewing forums have different beliefs.
There is a thread on the green board where a professional brewer stated that autolysis will occur in two weeks. I posted my raised eyebrow, but received only one response, and that was in defense of the autolysis comment. So apparently the consensus there is that autolysis does indeed occur in two weeks. Um, myself, I don't agree with that. 
http://www.brewboard.com/index.php?showtopic=49044&hl=
Incidently, it's a very nice post by the OP.
Ken |
Doug Pescatore
Senior Member
Username: Doug_p
Post Number: 1738
Registered: 10-2002
Posted From: 141.232.1.1
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 03:32 pm: |
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The green board gives me chest pains for more reasons that the eye burning colors. |
Michael
Advanced Member
Username: Hoppop
Post Number: 754
Registered: 03-2002
Posted From: 65.82.104.120
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 04:00 pm: |
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Never had a problem with 3 weeks...haven't gone much past that time in primary, however.
You will be fine. Rack it, carbonate it and enjoy it. |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 4394
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.57.229.8
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 04:38 pm: |
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Three weeks--no problem. Now three months--maybe, and even then it would depend on the O.G. High gravity beers are almost immune to autolysis.
I have a healthy skepticism for the information on the green board, as well as in other places. After all, I read on the Internet that it was invented by Al Gore (yes, I voted for him), and also that Osama bin Laden is living in Israel. All of it must be true. 
(Message edited by BillPierce on January 12, 2006) |
Ken Anderson
Senior Member
Username: Ken75
Post Number: 1329
Registered: 11-2002
Posted From: 69.168.141.10
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 05:00 pm: |
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Oh great. You mentioned bin Laden. Now the NSA's sooper snooper snoftware will be all over us. Keep it clean, fellas. |
Denny Conn
Senior Member
Username: Denny
Post Number: 5340
Registered: 01-2001
Posted From: 63.114.138.2
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 05:02 pm: |
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I seldom go less than 3 weeks in primary these days.
As to the greenboard, I've about given up on it....in spite of the fact that I just made a post agreeing with Ken!
(Message edited by denny on January 12, 2006)
LIfe begins at 60...1.060, that is.
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Chet Nunan
Junior Member
Username: Chet
Post Number: 93
Registered: 06-2004
Posted From: 64.179.41.70
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 05:11 pm: |
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I usually go two weeks in primary, then keg. Not unusual to go three weeks, haven't noticed any problems.
And I like the greenboard! |
Joakim Ruud
Member
Username: Joques
Post Number: 116
Registered: 10-2005
Posted From: 84.209.98.134
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 05:29 pm: |
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I've never had a single beer in secondary fermentation. Always straight from primary to bottles, and quite often a whole month in primary. I've never had a single occurrence of autolysis. I've a feeling that the danger is overstated
(Drinking too much today, cause my gal moved out yesterday. Sigh.) |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 4395
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.57.229.8
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 05:50 pm: |
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My condolences, Joakim. You probably need a little humor: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/alexpetty/beerbett.htm
And in the immortal words of Norm Peterson: "Women! Can't live with 'em. Pass the beer nuts." |
George Schmidt
Advanced Member
Username: Gschmidt
Post Number: 657
Registered: 08-2004
Posted From: 198.179.10.7
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 05:59 pm: |
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In the last year, I've only moved one beer off primary yeast earlier than three weeks. It was an extract Am wheat that I made (w/ Nott) to fill a tap for my Christmas party and I was in a hurry. My punishment for messing with it was diacetyl. Ales or lagers, my SOP is three week primary (sometimes four weeks) and straight to keg to force carb (ale) or lager.
I still like the green board because there are a lot of electric brewers there. I'm definately becoming more selective in the posts I read, though. Northern Brewer's board is REALLY dragging right now, not sure why, and I don't have much patience for it. Suprisingly, I find myself enjoying MoreBeer ATM, which has been my least favorite in the past. I don't know, these things go in cycles, I guess.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ~~Robert A. Heinlein: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
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damon
Member
Username: Nomad
Post Number: 183
Registered: 07-2004
Posted From: 141.211.186.200
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 06:12 pm: |
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And I've even gone 4 and 5 weeks in primary, with the carboy kept at or above 80F the entire time - no autolysis whatsoever. Oh the heresy! (also known as saison brewing) |
Scott Morales
Junior Member
Username: Smutty
Post Number: 72
Registered: 09-2005
Posted From: 208.252.62.130
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 06:21 pm: |
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My concern is justifiably assuaged. Thanks all. |
Mike A.
Member
Username: Mike_a
Post Number: 148
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 128.173.15.155
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 06:41 pm: |
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I've got an oatmeal stout and RyePA going on 5 and 6 weeks. Time to dry bean and dry hop those this weekend. |
Ken Anderson
Senior Member
Username: Ken75
Post Number: 1332
Registered: 11-2002
Posted From: 69.168.141.10
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 11:59 pm: |
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Uh oh Denny. Better go back and visit that thread on the green board. Careful now.  |
Catt22
Member
Username: Catt22
Post Number: 209
Registered: 12-2000
Posted From: 8.8.198.170
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 - 02:16 am: |
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I kept a RyePa in the primary for nearly three months. Mostly because I wasn't at all impressed with the samples I tasted. I put it in a dark corner of my basement and more or less forgot about it. I decided to keg and carb it regardless and that turned out to be a good decision. Wound up entering it in a competition and it won a second place silver! No autolysis whatsoever and it the long primary actually seemed to improve the flavor. Who knows though, maybe it would have gotten a first place if the primary had been shorter. |
Joakim Ruud
Member
Username: Joques
Post Number: 117
Registered: 10-2005
Posted From: 84.209.98.134
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 - 08:40 pm: |
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Bill, thx. That helped |
Mike A.
Member
Username: Mike_a
Post Number: 149
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 128.173.15.155
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 - 09:23 pm: |
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Good to know Catt22, I was kind of thinking it might be good to mellow some of the rye spicyness in primary and then dry hop.
Hey, I just found out I can view the greenboard in black text and white background by changing the broswer settings, might make it a little more bareable. |
Tim Polster
Member
Username: Bassman
Post Number: 193
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 69.149.50.219
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 04:17 pm: |
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Greg Noonan was the brewer/guest who stated during a Sunday evening chat not to leave the beer on the yeast for more than 10 days.
I read this in the chat transcript.
I do the primary to keg method and have not noticed any taste differences with varying primary lengths.
You do you trust?
Pro brewers have a lot more to lose and would want to error on the side of caution more than homebrewers.
(Message edited by Bassman on January 17, 2006) |
Aaron Meyer
Intermediate Member
Username: Meyeaard
Post Number: 304
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 68.229.233.170
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 05:44 pm: |
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I seem to remember that yeast autolysis is more of a problem for lager yeast than for ale yeast.
Personally I rarely if ever secondary my beer, I just leave it to settle out in the primary then rack it to the keg to carbonate and condition.
I've read that you want to get a lager off the cake as soon as the primary is completed to keep from getting the sulfurous / rubber components. |
Hophead
Senior Member
Username: Hophead
Post Number: 1963
Registered: 03-2002
Posted From: 167.4.1.38
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 06:05 pm: |
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Horse hockey. |
Bill Pierce
Moderator
Username: Billpierce
Post Number: 4441
Registered: 01-2002
Posted From: 24.57.229.8
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 06:47 pm: |
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I've said it elsewhere. Greg Noonan is an excellent brewer, and New Brewing Lager Beer is still the standard reference on lager brewing for homebrewers and small craft brewers. However, Noonan is something of a fuddy-duddy when it comes to technique. There are also occasional (usually minor) errors in his book. Many brewers, both homebrew and commercial, keep the beer on the yeast for far longer than 10 days without detrimental effects.
I suspect Noonan has greatly contributed to the myth that autolysis is a serious risk. It can and does happen, but it would be a far stretch to suspect a problem after only three weeks for the overwhelming majority of beers. |
Denny Conn
Senior Member
Username: Denny
Post Number: 5353
Registered: 01-2001
Posted From: 63.114.138.2
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 06:53 pm: |
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Who do you trust??? YOURSELF!!!! Try it both ways and make up your own mind!
LIfe begins at 60...1.060, that is.
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George Schmidt
Advanced Member
Username: Gschmidt
Post Number: 658
Registered: 08-2004
Posted From: 198.179.10.7
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 07:08 pm: |
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There you go with that Libertarian streak again, Denny.
As for Noonan, like Bill says, he has a commercial slant. Commercial fermenters hold a lot more beer (duh). Consequently, the liquid pressure on the yeast at the bottom of those tanks is quite a bit higher than our yeasts experience at the bottom of a 5 gal carboy. I'm not saying it's THE reason for the difference, but it might be A reason.
(Message edited by gschmidt on January 17, 2006)
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ~~Robert A. Heinlein: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
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Denny Conn
Senior Member
Username: Denny
Post Number: 5354
Registered: 01-2001
Posted From: 63.114.138.2
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 07:11 pm: |
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Libertarian??? Nah, that's good ol' HIPPIE philosophy!!! Of course, I view Libertarians as Republican hippies....
LIfe begins at 60...1.060, that is.
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