So my 1 gallon batch spent the standard month in the main ferment, and after that I racked it onto a few pounds of frozen cherries. It has been sitting on the cherries for 12 days now and I think I'm ready to take the batch out and bottle or drink.
Should I cold crash the entire batch or first rack again to remove most of the lees and cherries before cold-crashing? There is a fair amount of lees in the bottom of the batch (no filtering has been done) as I actually sucked up more of the lees during the first racking than I had intended to do, so I fully intended on racking again regardless.
I'm kind of worried about the head space as well after I rack, since the cherries take up a lot of the volume...seems that bottling would be better at this point instead of transferring to another carboy?
Thanks for reading.
Should I cold crash the entire batch or first rack again to remove most of the lees and cherries before cold-crashing? There is a fair amount of lees in the bottom of the batch (no filtering has been done) as I actually sucked up more of the lees during the first racking than I had intended to do, so I fully intended on racking again regardless.
I'm kind of worried about the head space as well after I rack, since the cherries take up a lot of the volume...seems that bottling would be better at this point instead of transferring to another carboy?
Thanks for reading.