jeffg
Well-Known Member
OK, this is probably a stupid question:
i haven't bottled a beer in many years, since the 90s. I am contemplating submitting a beer to a homebrew competition and obviously I will need to bottle. problem is, I do not want to bottle the whole batch, jsut a six-pack or so.
So is the best option to prime the whole batch, bottle six beers and then keg-condition the rest? I've never added primed beer to the keg, I always force carb with Co2 and I'm worried about over-carbing the beer since I will have another unprimed keg running off a distributer of the same Co2 tank (so I need 8 psi minimum). I assume with primed keg beer you just want enough Co2 to force the beer out (like 2-3 psi)?
Other options? I don't have a counterfiller/beer gun and don't feel like dropping $90 on one. I assume priming each bottle individually is too risky and won't be uniform?
Thoughts? i'd like to start making a habit of bottling a six of each batch I do..maybe I can even take part in a beer swap some time this way.
i haven't bottled a beer in many years, since the 90s. I am contemplating submitting a beer to a homebrew competition and obviously I will need to bottle. problem is, I do not want to bottle the whole batch, jsut a six-pack or so.
So is the best option to prime the whole batch, bottle six beers and then keg-condition the rest? I've never added primed beer to the keg, I always force carb with Co2 and I'm worried about over-carbing the beer since I will have another unprimed keg running off a distributer of the same Co2 tank (so I need 8 psi minimum). I assume with primed keg beer you just want enough Co2 to force the beer out (like 2-3 psi)?
Other options? I don't have a counterfiller/beer gun and don't feel like dropping $90 on one. I assume priming each bottle individually is too risky and won't be uniform?
Thoughts? i'd like to start making a habit of bottling a six of each batch I do..maybe I can even take part in a beer swap some time this way.