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Offline punatic

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Re: Horrible siphoning
« Reply #30 on: January 06, 2014, 08:50:17 pm »
It seems so simple, but I used to think every beer needed a secondary. Maybe because so many instructions mention it. Now there is a swing toward never secondary. I'm just pointing out why it's called secondary fermentor... hence when to use one.

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Re: Horrible siphoning
« Reply #31 on: January 07, 2014, 07:24:58 am »
It seems so simple, but I used to think every beer needed a secondary. Maybe because so many instructions mention it. Now there is a swing toward never secondary. I'm just pointing out why it's called secondary fermentor... hence when to use one.

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Re: Horrible siphoning
« Reply #32 on: January 07, 2014, 09:53:12 am »
The "swing" happened years ago.
In our small circle, but remember that AHA poll where most people indicated they were still using secondary every time?
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Re: Horrible siphoning
« Reply #33 on: January 07, 2014, 01:21:34 pm »
I don't remember. :(

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Re: Horrible siphoning
« Reply #34 on: January 07, 2014, 02:16:18 pm »
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Re: Horrible siphoning
« Reply #35 on: January 07, 2014, 10:38:00 pm »
I think next time I am not even going to go with a secondary on a beer like this. I lost probably 6 or 7 beers throughout this whole process