Raspberry Wheat Beer - Priming Question

[nicksonic]

hi all, i'm about to bottle my raspberry wheat beer which i've made from adding 1.2kg of raspberries to a brewferm tarweiber kit at the secondary fermentation stage.

i usually bulk prime into another FV with a 'little bottler'. my question is - in the interests of removing as much sediment as possible, can i bulk prime into the FV and then leave it to settle for a day or two before bottling? i've been led to believe you shouldn't do this since the CO2 developed in the first 2 fermentation stages will be lost, but is this actually an issue since a third fermentation will take place in the bottle anyway?

thanks for your help,

nick

[trucker5774]

As soon as you introduce the priming sugar to the beer...........bottle it. Otherwise you are wasting your time . You may as well just add less sugar later. You will always have sediment in the bottle.

Many people transfer to a secondary vessel for settling.........most of them mistakenly call it secondary fermentation, but no fermentation is taking place unless you transferred before the primary was completed. Personally I feel a secondary is a waste of time unless to are making additions to the beer.

[nicksonic]

that's very useful, thanks for the reply