Secondary fermentation and storage of beer
Many beer drinkers think that beer, after fermentation, is already drinkable. Well, strictly speaking, it is but this is not to be recommended. Every brewer presumably has experienced what happens when beer is drunk soon after main fermentation. Disregarding the taste “experience”, other undesirable effects may also make themselves felt. For these reasons, beer has to undergo secondary fermentation and storage. This part of Brewing 101 deals with this very subject.
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