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An interesting point when considering initial and possible secondary fermenter:

If we’re going to let the beer sit after its main fermentation is done, it pretty much needs to be in glass, and away from the spent yeast that accumulates at the bottom of your fermenter. - Secondary Fermentation, Pros and Cons.

I am a noob focussing on IPA, and so far have only made a couple of batches. I am preparing for the next batch and have been trying to figure out if using a secondary fermenter would be better .. so far I haven't used one. Not sure about this detail in the quote, but it seemed relevant to the thread.

Update: March 2017

So I've seen a few folks say they don't use a secondary - only primary fermenter and then straight to bottle.

After trying both ways, there is a noticeable difference. I find there is in fact a cleaner result using the secondary after all, and very much worth it to make the small-to-medium amount of additional effort it requires.

An interesting point when considering initial and possible secondary fermenter:

If we’re going to let the beer sit after its main fermentation is done, it pretty much needs to be in glass, and away from the spent yeast that accumulates at the bottom of your fermenter. - Secondary Fermentation, Pros and Cons.

I am a noob focussing on IPA, and so far have only made a 1/2 dozen batches.

After trying both approaches - with secondary and without - I find I get a cleaner and more crisp beer using the glass secondary. So I think if you are doing all the work to make a good batch of beer already - and you are going for the cleanest filtered result, it is worth the additional medium effort it takes to have a secondary as part of the process.

In my case , I have four 1-gallon glass jugs for that. So although there are four bottles to fill up and empty, I find it easy to move them around and whatnot.

An interesting point when considering initial and possible secondary fermenter:

If we’re going to let the beer sit after its main fermentation is done, it pretty much needs to be in glass, and away from the spent yeast that accumulates at the bottom of your fermenter. - Secondary Fermentation, Pros and Cons.

I am a noob focussing on IPA, and so far have only made a couple of batches. I am preparing for the next batch and have been trying to figure out if using a secondary fermenter would be better .. so far I haven't used one. Not sure about this detail in the quote, but it seemed relevant to the thread.

An interesting point when considering initial and possible secondary fermenter:

If we’re going to let the beer sit after its main fermentation is done, it pretty much needs to be in glass, and away from the spent yeast that accumulates at the bottom of your fermenter. - Secondary Fermentation, Pros and Cons.

I am a noob focussing on IPA, and so far have only made a couple of batches. I am preparing for the next batch and have been trying to figure out if using a secondary fermenter would be better .. so far I haven't used one. Not sure about this detail in the quote, but it seemed relevant to the thread.

Update: March 2017

So I've seen a few folks say they don't use a secondary - only primary fermenter and then straight to bottle.

After trying both ways, there is a noticeable difference. I find there is in fact a cleaner result using the secondary after all, and very much worth it to make the small-to-medium amount of additional effort it requires.

An interesting point when considering initial and possible secondary fermenter:

If we’re going to let the beer sit after its main fermentation is done, it pretty much needs to be in glass, and away from the spent yeast that accumulates at the bottom of your fermenter

from this post: http://www.keystonehomebrew.com/2010/12/secondary-fermentation-pros-and-cons/

I am a noob focussing on IPA, and so far have only made a couple of batches. I am preparing for the next batch and have been trying to figure out if using a secondary fermenter would be better .. so far I haven't used one. Not sure about this detail in the quote, but it seemed relevant to the thread.

An interesting point when considering initial and possible secondary fermenter:

If we’re going to let the beer sit after its main fermentation is done, it pretty much needs to be in glass, and away from the spent yeast that accumulates at the bottom of your fermenter. - Secondary Fermentation, Pros and Cons.

I am a noob focussing on IPA, and so far have only made a couple of batches. I am preparing for the next batch and have been trying to figure out if using a secondary fermenter would be better .. so far I haven't used one. Not sure about this detail in the quote, but it seemed relevant to the thread.