Re: First recipe without a kit

"John 'Shaggy' Kolesar" <spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:38:59 GMT, <adlab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> To answer another question, it's not so much the gravity you're looking

>> for
>> but try to judge when primary fermentation is nearly finished and then 
>> rack
>> to the secondary - don't do it when fermentation is totally complete.
>
> IMO, the timing of when to rack to a secondary isn't critical.  You can
do
> it with a little fermentation activity left, or after activity is done. 
I
> don't think it makes a big difference either way.  Racking to a
secondary
> after the fermentation is complete should not hurt anything.
>
>
> John.

Probably a more im****tant step with lagers and low alcohol beers.
Especially 
lagers, they like a bit of yeast in the secondary.
Even more im****tantly, why bother with a secondary? The only use I can see

is to free-up equipment for the next batch and recovering the yeast
sludge.
Steve W (in Aus)