The joys of homebrewing. A true test of patience. Usually, you rack from your primary fermenter to your secondary about a week into fermentation to keep the beer from developing off flavors from sitting on the trub. Then on bottling day you carefully rack from secondary to a bottling bucket that you mix the priming sugar into. All this talk about homebrew, I think I'll enjoy one of my Pumpkin Lagers! (something different) Please support your local homebrew store!
So the reason I would say this was racked into the bottling bucket was to mix the priming sugar in with the beer. It's a delicate procedure that you can not introduce oxygen into...
I think that we did it this way as a secondary filter kinda deal, so that most of the yeast and debris stayed in the carboy & not the "ale pail" or bottles.
The joys of homebrewing. A true test of patience. Usually, you rack from your primary fermenter to your secondary about a week into fermentation to keep the beer from developing off flavors from sitting on the trub. Then on bottling day you carefully rack from secondary to a bottling bucket that you mix the priming sugar into. All this talk about homebrew, I think I'll enjoy one of my Pumpkin Lagers! (something different)
Please support your local homebrew store!
So the reason I would say this was racked into the bottling bucket was to mix the priming sugar in with the beer. It's a delicate procedure that you can not introduce oxygen into...
I think that we did it this way as a secondary filter kinda deal, so that most of the yeast and debris stayed in the carboy & not the "ale pail" or bottles.