Help, recomend a beer for a 13 day primary ferment.

[TimCA]

I will be on vacation for 13 days and am looking for something to make before I leave. I'd rather it be an ale as I think the lagers I like require decoction (sp?). It needs to be a 10 G AG batch that is batch sparged in a converted cooler. I'm concerned about the time (13 days) in the primary. Any suggestions?

Thanks
Tim

[brewsters millionths]

if you look at some of jamil's stuff, he doesn't do secondary, he just does primary for as long as it takes.

[Push Eject]

Hi Tim,

So your concern is that 13 days is too long for a primary? Or too short?

Do you have some way of controlling the fermentation temperature?

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[seanhagerty]

any beer can be left in primary for 2-3 weeks no issues

One of my better beers was left in the primary for over a month, AFTER the blow off tube blew out and I wasnt home to a week to fix it

Sean

[rich]

I have an ESB that's been in the primary for 15 days nows, simply cause I've been working so hard (too lazy), to rack it. Here lately I leave all my ales in primary for at least two weeks (I don't secondary, but do cold crash in a brite tank). I find the trub and yeast bed has compacted enough for a nice clean racking.

[TimCA]

Thanks, I think I just been brewing lower gravity beers latley. Some times it's hard to just relax and have a home brew so to speek when your trying to figure out why there is that one little taist.....

Tim

[TimCA]

Thanks, I think I just been brewing lower gravity beers latley. Some times it's hard to just relax and have a home brew so to speek when your trying to figure out why there is that one little taist.....

Tim