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Thanks for the insights. Any thoughts on my earlier question re: cutting the time in the secondary short and moving straight to kegging and carbing the beer?

I strongly considered steeping the orange zest in vodka, but my thought was for such a light beer I was afraid the vodka would throw off the flavor and integrity of the beer, no?

Thanks for the warm welcome! It's super interesting to hear about the movement away from glass carboys and secondary fermenters in general. My impression was always that you didn't want to expose the beer to the dead yeast cells for too long, hence racking to a secondary can help produce a...

Thank you @RM-MN , that's helpful to know. Can you please elaborate a bit more on this piece? Would you recommend I just move to kegging and carbing the beer now? (the beer was actively fermenting for ~10 days and now has been almost 3 days in secondary) Also I'm assuming I should I try to...

Hey folks, I'm brewing a Kolsch-style beer and added some orange zest and coriander to the secondary two days ago. simple question – is this appearance anything to be concerned of? And if so, is there something I can do about it now to mitigate any contamination or off flavors? I'll add a bunch...