GrimyHoboSack
Active Member
I brewed a Doppelbock several months ago and it's almost done lagering finally, this is my first lager so I have a couple questions.
First: How should I transfer the beer into a keg from the carboy it's lagering in?
The carboy is in a chest freezer, so it's probably only a few inches off the ground, so I'd probably need to move the carboy to siphon into the keg. If I move it to a higher location should I let it sit for a few days first so everything settles back out?
This will be my first time using a keg also, so is there a better way to transfer from a carboy to a keg than just racking with an auto-siphon like you'd do for a bucket to bucket transfer?
Second: The carboy the Doppebock is in has a decent amount of headspace that I didn't purge with CO2 or do anything to at all. Since this was my second brew and I didn't know as much then, I hadn't even considered the possibility of oxidation, but now I'm thinking I'll probably end up with oxidized cardboard bock out of this. Is that probably the case?
First: How should I transfer the beer into a keg from the carboy it's lagering in?
The carboy is in a chest freezer, so it's probably only a few inches off the ground, so I'd probably need to move the carboy to siphon into the keg. If I move it to a higher location should I let it sit for a few days first so everything settles back out?
This will be my first time using a keg also, so is there a better way to transfer from a carboy to a keg than just racking with an auto-siphon like you'd do for a bucket to bucket transfer?
Second: The carboy the Doppebock is in has a decent amount of headspace that I didn't purge with CO2 or do anything to at all. Since this was my second brew and I didn't know as much then, I hadn't even considered the possibility of oxidation, but now I'm thinking I'll probably end up with oxidized cardboard bock out of this. Is that probably the case?