Secondary help

[jjackel53]

I'm about to rack my ale onto some mango purée for a secondary fermentation. My question is should I take the beer and leave behind all of the yeast cake on the bottom? Or should I take a bit of the yeast cake into the secondary? Or do I not even rack the beer and just put the purée into the primary? I just don't want to mess it up. Thanks very much for your suggestions!

 

[EcuPirate07]

You can add the purée to primary if you want, a lot of people have gone away from secondaries due to increased chance of infection. Or you can rack to a secondary Ontop of the purée and leave the yeast cake behind. Either way you will get some major activity so make sure you have a blowoff tube going.

 

[Calder]

There is plenty of yeast in suspension. No need to bring over any of the cake.

I'd use a secondary for fruit, otherwise the sugar will just kick-up all the yeast and trub on the bottom of the fermenter.

 

[okbecker]

Use secondary , rack normally , lots of yeast still in suspension.... Good luck!

 

[jjackel53]

Cool. I will do the secondary and rack. Thanks for the help everyone!