Extended fermenting.

[Lowlyric]

Happy holidays. I'm going away for 3 weeks and have two beers that have fermented.
Any harm in storing them in the beer fridge for a few weeks until I can keg?
Also one is a cherry wheat with instructions to use a secondary and add the concentrate 1 to 2 weeks before kegging.
Should I wait to add the concentrate or add it to the secondary which would sit for Three weeks in the fridge.
Thanks.

 

[Zambi]

What concentrate is that?
Cherry I think?

How long have they been in the fermenter already?
What yeast did you use?

Generally, I would just leave them in there. Or in this case maybe take them of the trub into a secondary fermenter, then just leave them sitting.

What's the non-cherry one? Maybe you can keg that straight away. The beaut about kegging is that you won't get exploding bottles

 

[HighVoltageMan!]

Any harm in storing them in the beer fridge for a few weeks until I can keg?

It works just fine. It's best to get them as close to freezing as possible without freezing the beer. The cherry concentrate can be added when the beer is cold, the low temperature will prevent much in the way of yeast activity. You can come back to a beer cleared and ready to keg. I've done it many times.

 

[Lowlyric]

Thanks guys, it's 16oz of Montgomery cherry concentrate, but only adding 8 oz.
Yeast is us-05.
Brewed the pumpkin ale on the 5 th and the cherry on the ninth Of Dec.
I won't have time to keg until I get back.

 

[Zambi]

Go for @HighVoltageMan's advice.
He got experience with it, I haven't. Was just thinking out loud

 

[Lowlyric]

Makes sense to me.