FINALLY got a glass carboy! Using the eazy-siphon that came in the mail today, I transferred the Cerveza from the primary (plastic) to the carboy and good god, you wouldn't believe the amount of sludge that gets left behind! The colour of the Cerveza was pretty damn golden as it went through the tubing, so hopefully the final colour will look like that too.
According to a brewing book I purchased, a lot of home brewers use the '1-2-3 Method'; one week in primary, two in secondary and three in the bottle. Although six weeks is a bloody long time to wait, why would they put it in a book if it's not true? And seeing as I've already purchased said book - and the 1-2-3 method sounds legit enough - I might as well take it for a hoon.
Having a second vessel opens up a myriad of possibilities, to say nothing of all the good that comes from being able to rack beer to another container and leave all the nasty-ass sediment behind. The more I think about it, the more sense it makes to replicate (with a few tweaks) the process I used for the Strontkop; brewing in a 15L pot (almost as a concentrate) which gets topped up in primary. There's no real point going all-grain until I get a Mash Tun.
But I'm sure as shit NOT boiling up that much grain in a pot again! About 3 should do, although I'd have to double check with BeerSmith. I got better results with a bucket and a sieve than with that stupid-ass grain bag. I'm also wondering if I should top it to 24 or 25 (Author's Note: thank god I didn't do this, as it would have fucked up the original gravity!) litres, just to allow for all the sludge that forms at the bottom. Something I'll have to think on.
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