secondary ferment before bottling?

[brysie]

heres one for you then.

woodfordes wherry made with an extra 250g of dark muscovado and ready to siphon over to me fv so i can easily bottle it.

can i add the priming sugar to the fv and leave for a few days in the warm to get the secondary ferment under way and then bottle it to condition on the cellar?
or am i missing the point here?

[brysie]

` in the cellar` sorry.

[ebbadger]

Ive always added priming sugar to my FV and bottled straight away (in my limited experience) and then allowed to condition for 2 weeks in the warm before moving the bottles to my conditioning beer fridge for 5-6 weeks.... always worked fine that way with spot on carbonation in the bottles.

Cheers Steve

[stevezx7r]

Ideally you want the secondary fermentation to take place in the bottle/keg. This carbonates the beer to the level you require. If it's busy carbonating the secondary you will end up with flat beer once in the bottle as no sugar will be left to carbonate the bottle. If your going to rack into a keg then you can do a away with using priming sugar altogether if you've a way of adding c02 to the keg via a gas bulb or widget world system gas gun.