HI guys. I need some help. After traing to pestarizing a batch of cider. 3 bottles blow up, and one almost in me face. So i decide no more pestarizing let upgrade to kegging. Basically i don't have a room to keep a 5 gallon keg in a refrigerator. So I need something that i can stop the yeast and force carbonate. Stop the yeast that part i get. But i need the equipment force carbonate and bottle. Any body has any advice what part i need to get to get to work. Thank For help.
"Stop the yeast" isn't so easy without being able to crash chill the cider!
Stopping active yeast is like stopping a freight train (hence, pasteurizing the bottles
) and doesn't work all that easily. It normally requires chilling, racking off of the lees, adding sorbate, etc.
After that, kegging will just require a co2 tank, regulator, hoses (gas and beerline), and a tap and all of the connections.
Here's a link to what you need:
http://stores.kegconnection.com/Detail.bok?no=463 You need that, plus the 5# co2 tank. If you're not serving it cold, you'll need more line on the beer line side so make sure whatever you order, order 20' (yes, 20 FEET) and not the standard 5 feet of serving line.
In order to bottle from the keg, you'll need to chill it down. Warm cider, when carbonated, foams like a son of a gun. You can't bottle a warm carbonated beverage. Once it's cold, you can bottle with a Beergun (or see the homemade version on our forum).