To bottle or not to bottle?

[Gugs44]

Have my lager at D rest now for 24 hours, was only .3 away from FG so thought I'd get it in, still some slight bubbling so gonna leave it til tomorrow evening

As there is still action in the bubbler would it be safe to bottle? And when bottled do I put back into fridge scaling temps down daily or do I let it at room temp to carbonate first before lagering it?

Thanks

[LordEoin]

If you're lagering in the bottle, carb it up first.
It'll double as a D rest too.
Problem with bottling it before it's reached FG is that you don't actually know what the actual FG will be.
it should be fine, but if the yeast keeps working farther than you expected then you risk overcarbonating it.

[Gugs44]

Bottle bombs is what I fear happening, just had a taste there and compared to 28 hours ago it's not that nice and has gotten cloudier, it tasted far better after being removed from fridge

Il bottle away tomorrow evening so and leave it carb up for a week, then lager the hell outa it for 6 weeks, il do one in a glass lucozade bottle to check for clarity along the process

[Gugs44]

If you're lagering in the bottle, carb it up first.
It'll double as a D rest too.
Problem with bottling it before it's reached FG is that you don't actually know what the actual FG will be.
it should be fine, but if the yeast keeps working farther than you expected then you risk overcarbonating it.

Thanks LE

[Gugs44]

If you're lagering in the bottle, carb it up first.
It'll double as a D rest too.
Problem with bottling it before it's reached FG is that you don't actually know what the actual FG will be.
it should be fine, but if the yeast keeps working farther than you expected then you risk overcarbonating it.

Would I benefit anything by transferring to bottle bucket, cold crash for 2/3 days and then prime and bottle, leave at room temp to carbonate and then lager?

[LordEoin]

you might get a little less sediment, but what's the rush?

[ColmR]

Would I benefit anything by transferring to bottle bucket, cold crash for 2/3 days and then prime and bottle, leave at room temp to carbonate and then lager?

I wouldn't do this. You still want your yeast active to do a bottle conditioning after all so cold crashing may not be the best thing for the yeast's health and it also may drop it all out. Let the beer finish out. Let the yeast do it's clean up and then bottle.

[Qs]

I cold crash and then bottle condition all the time. There is still loads of yeast left to do the job.

[Gugs44]

My worry was that the yeast may go dormant during cc, only reason that I wanted to do it was to get less sediment in the bottle but I'd settle for sediment if I got the carbonation right

Cheers for the replies lads

[Qs]

The yeast will be dormant DURING the cold crash but once they come out and warm back up they'll eat all that lovely fresh priming sugar you just gave them.

[Gugs44]

Thanks to all who replied to this and a similar post I put up

Cracker open a lager this evening after 9 days bottled before lagering it and it looked and tasted great, the old man a lager drinker reckons top notch so hopefully after 6 weeks lagering should be better again

Thanks again