lagering better to do in bottles or the original fermenter

[Drunkin Bunyip]

just a quick question wich may sound stupid but which is betta when laggering, in the bottles or priar to bottling in the fermenter i thought it was only ment to b done once its bottled but my homebrew shop guy told me he does his prior????

[rwh]

Lagering is really only true lagering when it's done in bulk.

[Chris]

Yep. In the fermenter following 2ndary fermentation.

[Kevnlis]

So do you transfer it a second time after it has finished in the secondary fermentor or so you just put the secondary fermentor in the fridge when it has finished?

[lethaldog]

So do you transfer it a second time after it has finished in the secondary fermentor or so you just put the secondary fermentor in the fridge when it has finished?

Either, i transfer again into a lagering cube ( water container) but others just leave in secondary, both are fine

[Chris]

I rack it again, simply to free up a fermenter. Plus the gerry cans fit in the fridge more efficiently as far as space.

[Kevnlis]

When you say water containers do you mean like those 12 litre bottles of spring water at Woolies and such?

I would love to find a cheap way to lager my beer in the fridge but it would have to be a fairly efficent cube size as my fridge is only 500 cubic litres!

[ryan]

you might be getting your metrics wrong again-500 litres is a bloody big fridge.

[Kevnlis]

you might be getting your metrics wrong again-500 litres is a bloody big fridge.

I meant it to come off tongue in cheek. I know it is pretty big

But it can never hold enough lager IMHO

What is the best "cube" to use as far as space saving and usable as well?