Mr Nick
Well-Known Member
I am wondering if one could let the beer carbonate in a 5 gallon beverage cooler, and bottle say three weeks later?
Would that work?
Would that work?
Mr Nick said:I am wondering if one could let the beer carbonate in a 5 gallon beverage cooler, and bottle say three weeks later?
Would that work?
I'm sure some feel the same way, but there are a number of situations where it's nice to still use bottles sometimes. Like if you want to brew some big beer that needs months of conditioning, and will also likely take a long time to drink a whole 5 gallon batch - you'd be tying up a keg for a really long time, and for the sake of your liver it's probably best to have it in individual bottles instead of on draft. Also, there are times when you feel like brewing a lot, and don't have enough kegs (of course, if you want to buy a ton of kegs, that's probably not an issue), and it's pretty easy to round up a couple cases of bottles. Or, if you want to give some bottles of beer to your friends/relatives to try.Mr Nick said:I am not going to purchase a bottle capper and a bunch of brown bottles, that I will have no use for once I can afford a Keg etc.
I thought you just said you weren't going to buy a capper? Are you planning to put your beer in clear bottles without caps? As others said, even if you could carbonate in a cooler, bottling the carbonated beer would be a huge mess (and lead to flat beer anyway) unless you invested the money in a beer gun, etc, in which case you could have just done it the normal way for cheaper.So until then... If one could carbonate in something like a cooler The Beer would spend less time in Clear bottles.
I am going to use a 5 gallon beverage cooler as a bottling bucket any way.
I will be putting my beer in clear plastic pop bottles that have plastic screw on caps.I thought you just said you weren't going to buy a capper? Are you planning to put your beer in clear bottles without caps? As others said, even if you could carbonate in a cooler, bottling the carbonated beer would be a huge mess (and lead to flat beer anyway) unless you invested the money in a beer gun, etc, in which case you could have just done it the normal way for cheaper.
Mr Nick said:I will be putting my beer in clear plastic pop bottles that have plastic screw on caps.
TexLaw said:I bottled for five years before I bought my kegging equipment. I'd say I got my money's worth out of the bottling stuff.
I've spent over $1000.00 just for the kegging equipment and rebuilding alone...then there's the kegerator, tower, second tank and regulator...then the new keezer and digital temp controller...my great deal on $12 kegs (I have 25 of them) have cost me over $2000.00 counting the extra equipment, etc.Mr Nick said:I am expecting some extra cash to arrive with in the next month or two, that will probably be enough to purchase the equipment.
How much did the kegging equipment cost you?
houndhome1 said:I bottle just a six pack of bottles, I went to my local package store and asked for 8 growlers and some of the 22oz bottles. it's takes no time to fill the growlers, and they make really nice party gifts.
Sweeet Jesus.........Mr Nick said:To all who contributed to this thread
"Wow".... I am humbled.OldFarmer said:Sweeet Jesus.........
Enter your email address to join: