Clintdowns
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Riming sugar that comes in the extract kits for kegs or force carbonation.
What is the best way to carbonate? What's the easiest?
What is the best way to carbonate? What's the easiest?
Yooper said:There are a couple of ways to carb up a keg. One is force carbing with a co2 tank, the other is to use priming sugar and let it sit at room temperature for 2-3 weeks. Either way works just fine, and I can't tell a difference between kegs carbed up with either method.
If you use priming sugar, use 1/2 of the "normal" amount. So, for a 5 gallon batch of pale ale, you'd use 2.5 ounces of priming sugar instead of 5 ounces like you would for bottling.
Do you know how to force carb? I'm brewing my 2nd batch tomorrow morning. 1st batch was brewed last Saturday. I think I'm gonna bottle the 1st batch but then keg. I have a deep freezer that I got off Craigslist and waiting on my JC 419 temp controller in the mail. I just ordered 3 5 gal corny keg kits from corny keg with a 4 gas splitter. Not sure how to force carb.
if you're kegging why not just force carb it?
There are other ways to make it happen faster, like using a higher psi for the first 24-36 hours.
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