This is my first time racking to secondary and now after a week I’m noticing sediment on the bottom that resembles a slim yeast cake. So is this ok to sit on for a couple months, or should I rack to tertiary?
You’re fine. Don’t rack
That’s normal. Not sure why it needs to stay in secondary for months
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What style of beer is it? Unless its some kind of specialty beer that needs extended time, package that sucker up!
I always have sediment in my secondary’s. Some guys even recommend not using a secondary at all.
Even a slim cake can break down eventually and cause bad flavors. Unless it’s for a specific reason like dry hopping (which shouldn’t take months) the beer should be packaged.
Secondary is useful as a tactic to drop remaining sediment roused in the transfer process when using powdery and less flocculative yeast and when one can’t cold-crash the fermenter.