DanseMacabre
Active Member
To date most of my brews (mostly various ales) follow this fermentation/carbonation schedule: primary for 4 weeks, transfer to keg, set and forget carb to desired level @44F in my keezer for 3 weeks, drink and enjoy. I have no major complaints about this method, but I'm moving to 10 gallon batches from 5g, and I want make sure I am being as efficient as possible with my time.
My questions are:
1) Where does "conditioning" best take place, in the keg or in the primary. The boogie monster of old was leaving the beer on the primary trub too long, but this myth seems to have been dispelled in favor of longer primaries that "clean up" after themselves. Is this "clean up" conditioning? If so, then it seems that leaving the beer on the trub as long as possible (without dying yeast) is the simplest method to clean and condition (assuming clean up and conditioning aren one in the same).
2) If "conditioning" is something that happens off the trub, then I have 2 further questions:
2a) What is happening in the longer primary clean up, and how does this differ from conditioning?
2b) Can conditioning occur during my 3 week set and forget keg carbonation at 44f, or should it occur before carbonation and at a different temp
thanks
DMC
My questions are:
1) Where does "conditioning" best take place, in the keg or in the primary. The boogie monster of old was leaving the beer on the primary trub too long, but this myth seems to have been dispelled in favor of longer primaries that "clean up" after themselves. Is this "clean up" conditioning? If so, then it seems that leaving the beer on the trub as long as possible (without dying yeast) is the simplest method to clean and condition (assuming clean up and conditioning aren one in the same).
2) If "conditioning" is something that happens off the trub, then I have 2 further questions:
2a) What is happening in the longer primary clean up, and how does this differ from conditioning?
2b) Can conditioning occur during my 3 week set and forget keg carbonation at 44f, or should it occur before carbonation and at a different temp
thanks
DMC
