It's been 5 weeks, give to take a day or two. Everyone is gone, I have the house to myself. This can only mean one thing: kegging time!
I watched some youtube videos (Craigtube I think) about soda keg maintenance and promptly took my keg apart, cleaned, re-gasketed, sanitized, said a little prayer over.
Noticed that the lid wasn't getting a good seal with the warm water and sanitizer when I inverted it. More on that in a bit.
The last brewing I did was near enough to a decade ago. One of the new things I've picked up that I didn't have then was a Fermtech Auto-Siphon. Gotta say, SWEET!
Anywho, I siphoned the apfelwein in to the keg, save about 8 ounces that I put in to a sunrise soda bottle, capped and tossed in to the fridge for later this evening. I then located my portable keg charger and the last CO2 cartridge left over from all those yesterdays and gave it a shot. Pulled the pin to let some of the O2 out, rinsed and repeated. I should have most of the O2 out of the keg and hopefully enough pressure on the lid to hold the pressure. I put my ear to the tank and didn't hear any hissing so crossed fingers.
I then stuffed the keg in to a mini-fridge where I will let it sit until May. At some point when I get my regulator and my tank filled, I'll hook that up and let it sit until I'm ready to drink it at the Redneck Kampers annual Mother's Day rendezvous.
I think I'll pop down to the store this afternoon and get 5 more gallons of juice and a can of raspberries and get another batch going.
EdWort, you are a bad, bad man.