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[positiveContact]

I have a cider that I racked after 3-4 weeks in primary to secondary. I'm already seeing a lot of stuff settling out. It's only been a month in secondary though and I was planning on waiting for 3 months until I moved it to tertiary. should I stay the course or do I need to rack off the secondary lees?

[EWW]

FWIW it's my understanding that lees in secondary are less detrimental to flavor. On a homebrew scale and pressures you have up to 6 mo before autolosis comes into play. I typically rack to secondary after 2 mo and then 6 mo later I rack to keg.

[positiveContact]

FWIW it's my understanding that lees in secondary are less detrimental to flavor. On a homebrew scale and pressures you have up to 6 mo before autolosis comes into play. I typically rack to secondary after 2 mo and then 6 mo later I rack to keg.

sounds like staying the course should be fine then. I just don't want to rack too soon but then again maybe getting it out of the better bottle and into the glass carboy wouldn't be a bad thing

[positiveContact]

another interesting thing I'm noticing in secondary - it seems like the top half of cider is more of a pale yellowish color while the bottom half is much more amber/orange colored.