IPeeAle
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Hi
I'm almost ready to keg my first ever batch. There are lots of posts on here about priming beer for kegging but I wanted to be sure what applied to me and so hopefully some of you can help or offer your opinions.
The keg I have is not a corny or owt fancy, it's a £30 plastic keg with a valve on the top (like a King Keg but it isn't a King Keg, and it doesn't have the floaty thing, just a tap on the bottom.)
I have a 240 gramme CO2 cartridge that could help pressurize it and preserve it, but its not going to carbonate it.
I drink bitter in the pub and bitter isn't fizzy. I'm assuming I need to carbonate it to give it some life, but I don't want a very fizzy beer. I'm brewing from a Brupaks Light Bitter kit (Linthwaite Light.)
So, my questions are: -
how much sugar do I need to use to prime?
What sugar/solution should I use and does it matter?
And most importantly:
How long do I have to wait till I can drink it/how long till all the sugar should be converted?
Thanks in advance for your help.
I'm almost ready to keg my first ever batch. There are lots of posts on here about priming beer for kegging but I wanted to be sure what applied to me and so hopefully some of you can help or offer your opinions.
The keg I have is not a corny or owt fancy, it's a £30 plastic keg with a valve on the top (like a King Keg but it isn't a King Keg, and it doesn't have the floaty thing, just a tap on the bottom.)
I have a 240 gramme CO2 cartridge that could help pressurize it and preserve it, but its not going to carbonate it.
I drink bitter in the pub and bitter isn't fizzy. I'm assuming I need to carbonate it to give it some life, but I don't want a very fizzy beer. I'm brewing from a Brupaks Light Bitter kit (Linthwaite Light.)
So, my questions are: -
how much sugar do I need to use to prime?
What sugar/solution should I use and does it matter?
And most importantly:
How long do I have to wait till I can drink it/how long till all the sugar should be converted?
Thanks in advance for your help.