TTodd
Active Member
I have the book "Brewing Classic Style" by Jamil Z and am interested in brewing the Strict Observance Tripel.
Under the Fermentation and Conditioning instructions it states "Pitch the yeast at 64 and let the temperature rise slowly to 70 over the course of 1 week. When finished, carbonate teh beer to approximately 3 to 4 volumes and allow to lager for 1 month at 45 to 50".
I'm plan to do a 10 gallon batch and not sure at this point if I'm doing 2 kegs , or 1 keg and bottling the rest. So I'm a little confused about the carbonating *before* the lagering.
So if I were kegging - would I simply transfer to a keg and hook the CO2 up to it and let it refrigerate at 45 degrees for a month?
And if I were to bottle - after the fermentation - would I prime and then bottle it right away and then store the bottles in the fridge at 45 for a month?
Pretty confused at this point - would appreciate some insight.
Thanks!
Under the Fermentation and Conditioning instructions it states "Pitch the yeast at 64 and let the temperature rise slowly to 70 over the course of 1 week. When finished, carbonate teh beer to approximately 3 to 4 volumes and allow to lager for 1 month at 45 to 50".
I'm plan to do a 10 gallon batch and not sure at this point if I'm doing 2 kegs , or 1 keg and bottling the rest. So I'm a little confused about the carbonating *before* the lagering.
So if I were kegging - would I simply transfer to a keg and hook the CO2 up to it and let it refrigerate at 45 degrees for a month?
And if I were to bottle - after the fermentation - would I prime and then bottle it right away and then store the bottles in the fridge at 45 for a month?
Pretty confused at this point - would appreciate some insight.
Thanks!