I have a batch of IPA I racked to secondary a few weeks ago. How long can I safely keep it in secondary. It is in a dark cool(60 degrees) environment
Craig
I have a batch of IPA I racked to secondary a few weeks ago. How long can I safely keep it in secondary. It is in a dark cool(60 degrees) environment
Craig
Some of my best brews where in secondary for many months. As long as you maintain the airlock you will have no problem.
If you plan on bottle conditioning after such a long secondary you will need to add some fresh yeast along with your priming sugar.
BobH
NewsGroup wrote:
I just took a small sample to test and it is good, but it could stand a little more hoppy taste. Im thinking of tossing in another 1 oz of hops for another 2 weeks. do you think I should toss in some yeast also?
Thnaks
Craig
I would say that a couple of months are no problem. Depending on the style of beer, and your sanitation levels, even longer could be just fine.
But I will add a cautionary note. An IPA that I made managed to stay in secondary for about 4 months, as I was lazy from weekend to weekend when I really should have kegged it. When I finally got around to kegging... well... It was terrible. I believe that autolysis set in. It could be other things as well. Rotten vegetables with a nice side of burnt rubber. It's the only batch that I really just couldn't stomach. It tasted fine when I tested it's gravity only 1 month into secondary.
Now it's just drain cleaner.
Don't leave it for too long, in secondary, if you can help it. A couple of months at most. Longer than that... It might be ok... but it might be drain cleaner.
For smaller time scales... RDWHAHB. :)
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