Questions tagged [racking]
Transferring wort or beer from one vessel to another via a siphon, often with a rigid tube - a "racking cane" - to help avoid transferring sediment.
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If/When to move to secondary fermentation
Digression from What's the point of secondary fermentation?
What are the good rules of thumb for determining a. whether to use secondary fermentation at all and b. when to move from primary to ...
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Racking question
This might seem like a really dumb question but what exactly is meant by the term "racking" and how did it come about?
When someone says, "I just racked my beer", what does that mean? Can it have ...
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Combating Diacetyl
I've just finished my first brew (brown ale), and the results aren't quite as spectacular as I had hoped. The issue is a prominent, yet not overpowering, sweet almost caramel-like flavor. As best I ...
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Quick advice for dry-hopping and racking to secondary
tomorrow I'll brew an English style IPA with extract.
I want to dry-hop in the conditioning phase, so, considering I'm using S04 on a small batch, I'll probably add the hops on Wednesday. It should be ...
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