Should I rack a Bavarian Weissbeir or serve cloudy?

[cwiseman77]

My recipe(extract) says this beer should be serves cloudy and be drunk young. Will it still be beneficial to rack the beer to a secondary? Won't siphoning into bottling bucket for batch-prime remove enough sediment.

Also what does "drink young" exactly mean? Consume within what...4 weeks/10 weeks what? Why would do you need to drink certain beers "young"? Are they more susceptible to over oxidisation?

 

[BigYin]

racking into a bottling bucket will be more than good enough, and young is a relative term - no point drinking too son from bottles as they won't have had time to condition - but my idea of 'young' is to whack it into a cornie keg, force carb, chill and serve after just 4 days :drink:

 

[cwiseman77]

So skip racking, batch prime, leave in bottles to condition 2-3 weeks then drink with reckless abandon?

 

[BigYin]

sounds good :drink: :drink: :drunk:

 

[cwiseman77]

Cool, it's getting bottled on my return from a holiday/wedding in Ireland...I can smell the Guinness already

 

[Farmbrew]

The great thing about weissbier is that it can be racked from the primary to the bottle. This is what is traditionally done. A week or two in a corny probably isnt a prob

As for shelf life - they do dry out quickly...so 3months then you'll start to notice....if it lasts that long:smile: