racked some trub over, problem?

[texasliam]

New guy here. I'm thinking that racking is a 2 person job. I got about 8 oz of trub over into the secondary. Is this acceptable or should I rack it again to a new secondary?

Liam

[mookow]

Originally posted by texasliam
New guy here. I'm thinking that racking is a 2 person job. I got about 8 oz of trub over into the secondary. Is this acceptable or should I rack it again to a new secondary?

Liam

Dont worry about it. It isnt optimal, but it's nothing to cry over, either. You'd do your beer more harm by re-racking and risking additional contamination and whatnot than a couple of ounces of trub will do to your beer in secondary.

RDWHAHB.

[Trogger]

Agreed, not a problem. You'll get better with time and figure out your own little tricks to leave the trub behind. From my experience, all it's done is put more sediment in the beer if it makes it all the way to bottling, however taste is minimally, if at all, affected.

Welcome, and good luck.

[HogieWan]

You're going to rack to a bottling bucket and then to the bottles, so you have to more chances of leaving the sediment out of your glass - one in the bottling bucket, two in your bottle.

[thekulman]

Do you have an anit-lees tip on your racking cane? It's that part that allows it to sit above the trub while racking to the secondary and the bottling bucket.
Only after I've racked to the bottling bucket do I remove it for filling the bottles. By that point there is no visible sedimentation.

Kul

[markaberrant]

Originally posted by thekulman
Do you have an anit-lees tip on your racking cane? It's that part that allows it to sit above the trub while racking to the secondary and the bottling bucket.
Only after I've racked to the bottling bucket do I remove it for filling the bottles. By that point there is no visible sedimentation.

Kul

Duh... I just smacked myself on the forehead. I never thought to remove the "tip" during bottling.

You can also get little "mesh" covers for when you are siphoning off of fruit, chocolate or anything else thick/chunky that might be in suspension and cause your siphon to clog. I got my "mesh" cover with a premium wine kit that included 2lbs of grape skins (it was more like a super duper thick grape jam).

[Vienna Lager]

OH MY GOD!! You did What??? Sweet mother of pearl, that beer is going to be a 'Clunker'.


JUST KIDDING texasliam


I picked up a serparate racking cane with the anti-lees tip and also a 'filling wand' for bottle filling. After cleaning the tip always remember to replace it on the end of the racking cane.