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Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
 
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A couple of weeks ago, I asked about doing an extra racking after the
secondary, due to the large layer on the bottom.

I ended up not transferring. In hindsight, I should have. My
reasonaing was the huge airspace in the carboy . . .

Anyway, all but the last two bottles were fine (and the quarter bottle
left).

I ended up sitting them on the counter, full to the brim, covered with
aluminum foil. They took about a full week to transfer . . .

This time, I'm transferring after a week in the secondary. I'll
probably flood the next carboy with CO2 before racking.

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why aluminum foil?

"Dr. Richard E. Hawkins" > wrote in message
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> A couple of weeks ago, I asked about doing an extra racking after the
> secondary, due to the large layer on the bottom.
>
> I ended up not transferring. In hindsight, I should have. My
> reasonaing was the huge airspace in the carboy . . .
>
> Anyway, all but the last two bottles were fine (and the quarter bottle
> left).
>
> I ended up sitting them on the counter, full to the brim, covered with
> aluminum foil. They took about a full week to transfer . . .
>
> This time, I'm transferring after a week in the secondary. I'll
> probably flood the next carboy with CO2 before racking.
>
> hawk
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> Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics /"\ ASCII ribbon

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Adam Lang > wrote:

<cloudy bottles on the counter>

>why aluminum foil?


To keep the air out. I was initially expecting them to settle
overnight. The plan was to pour into anouther sterile bottle and cap.

Instead, we ended up drinking them (one poured into large glasses; the
other into another bottle).

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