Racking and bulk priming

[Guest]

Leaving the wort in primary until primary fermentation is complete don't affect the end product as it is only there for about a week. The dead yeast cells left on the bed of the secondary for a couple of weeks don't really affect the beer either. However lagering on the trub would cause a problem. Doggers method works for him. Mine is primary until finished, about a week, secondary for two weeks, with finnings ( isinglass ) added in the second week of secondary. Bulk prime after racking into primary bucket and bottle or rack into keg from secondary, and force carb. ( my way )
I still get an inch of sediment in secondary after racking off trub in primary.

Great forum guys!

[Dogger Dan]

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Dogger

[peterd]

Sorry to revive an apparently dead thread, but on the weekend I found a really good reason to NOT bulk prime: if you prime each bottle individually, there is no chance that your bottling bucket will fall off its temporary bench halfway through the siphoning process, thereby spilling 12 litres of your latest brew on the floor of your garage
Only silver lining to this particular cloud is that there were so many boxes of assorted family heirlooms sitting on the floor in the near vicinity that I had almost no spilt beer to to mop up: the boxes did it for me
Oh, and another thing, it may be true that there is no point crying over spilt milk, but I sure felt better after a good cry in this case