original art © Joe Kazimierczyk

Carboy Start

After 7 to 10 days in the primary (plastic bucket), it gets transferred to a glass carboy, bunged and air locked, and finishes fermenting here. It still looks unappetizing now, but eventually clears, as the yeasts settle to the bottom. It gets transferred (racked) to a clean carboy a few times to get it off the yeast sediments before bottling.