BrewThruYou
Well-Known Member
Maybe I'm crazy, but after reading Zymurgy's NHC winners recipes, it seems like all but a few force carbed their entries. Right now, I have a two-tap kegerator with 5lb co2 tank that will only fit two kegs. I still bottle a lot of beers, but I bottle condition.
I'm thinking of the following: bottom/top fridge in the garage, 10lb+ co2 tank, blichmann beer gun. That way, I can have a carbed pipeline for hot swapping into the kegerator and I could bottle an entire batch if I wanted to using the beer gun.
Just had a few questions:
1. Is it pure coincidence that the winners were force carbed? Or does it produce better beer than bottle conditioning?
2. Can I forgo the fridge if I just want to force carb for bottling? I'd imagine I'd need to jack up the PSI a lot to get co2 into solution and would go through the co2 tank much faster.
3. Is this sane or should I just stick to the much less expensive and less time-consuming bottle conditioning? Here, I'm essentially kegging and then bottling
I'm thinking of the following: bottom/top fridge in the garage, 10lb+ co2 tank, blichmann beer gun. That way, I can have a carbed pipeline for hot swapping into the kegerator and I could bottle an entire batch if I wanted to using the beer gun.
Just had a few questions:
1. Is it pure coincidence that the winners were force carbed? Or does it produce better beer than bottle conditioning?
2. Can I forgo the fridge if I just want to force carb for bottling? I'd imagine I'd need to jack up the PSI a lot to get co2 into solution and would go through the co2 tank much faster.
3. Is this sane or should I just stick to the much less expensive and less time-consuming bottle conditioning? Here, I'm essentially kegging and then bottling