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Help please, secondary bucket too big

The beer is fermenting happily in its 30 litres plastic bucket, and I was planning on racking it to a secondary fermentation 30 litres plastic bucket. The problem is, the beer is 20 litres and the bucket is 30 litres, leaving 1/3 of the volume of air. I'm heard that secondary fermentation shall minimise the volume of air because of infection problems. What's my best option ?

- too dangerous, don't rack it for secondary and leave it one more week in the primary bucket ?

- or rack it anyway in the big bucket, with careful sanitation, and leave it in a cool place for three more weeks ?

I promise I did make a comprehensive search in the newsgroup before asking this question !

Thanks,

Reply to
Faux Pascal
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Not a problem...rack away!

----------->Denny

Reply to
Denny Conn

I say rack away. If you are that worried and have CO2, dispense some into the bucket before racking to help minimize the O2 contact (the yeast should do that soon enough on its own).

Reply to
amatbrewer

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