adonuff
28th October 2012, 04:42 PM
Hi all
Wondering has anyone else tried this? If you Keg your brew you always end up with 2-3 liters of beer left over. Rather than throw it out I usually put it into a clean plastic Coke/ Lemonade bottle and prime it with sugar. I was storing the bottles in a warm dark place for several weeks before chucking them in the fridge.
The other day the brewing was falling behind due to work, So I thought why not pour the bottles into a keg? So cleaned a empty keg and tilted it just like you do with a beer glass and slowly filled the keg from the plastic bottles. I then purged the keg leaving it in the fridge overnight with about 20 psi of Co2.
The result was fantastic, a great beer, very clear with a good head. The different brews mixed together make for a very drinkable beer.
As the bottles were already starting to carbonate due to the added sugar the carbonating at 20 psi overnight was all I needed. The following day I released the pressure in the keg and gassed it up to normal pouring pressure and had a perfect result.
Works for me, any thoughts?
Andrew
Wondering has anyone else tried this? If you Keg your brew you always end up with 2-3 liters of beer left over. Rather than throw it out I usually put it into a clean plastic Coke/ Lemonade bottle and prime it with sugar. I was storing the bottles in a warm dark place for several weeks before chucking them in the fridge.
The other day the brewing was falling behind due to work, So I thought why not pour the bottles into a keg? So cleaned a empty keg and tilted it just like you do with a beer glass and slowly filled the keg from the plastic bottles. I then purged the keg leaving it in the fridge overnight with about 20 psi of Co2.
The result was fantastic, a great beer, very clear with a good head. The different brews mixed together make for a very drinkable beer.
As the bottles were already starting to carbonate due to the added sugar the carbonating at 20 psi overnight was all I needed. The following day I released the pressure in the keg and gassed it up to normal pouring pressure and had a perfect result.
Works for me, any thoughts?
Andrew