blackheart
Well-Known Member
We are brewing 5 gallon batches right now, and 10 gallon AG shortly as soon as our system is completed. We want to experiment as much as possible by splitting batches up in separate fermentors.
For example, we brewed a porter, we want to make it a coffee porter, we could just throw some coffee in and hope for the best but thats over a months worth of waiting just for one experiment.
We have a local coffee roaster who is willing to roast us whatever we need and would would like to experiment with different amounts of coffee and types. This means making a 5 gal batch and splitting it up into lets say 1gallon glass jugs/growlers. I have seen people make mead and small batches of beers in these 1gallon glass jugs so I know that we can easily put a stopper and airlock to use as a primary or secondary fermentor to test out dry hopping, coffee, or yeast strains.
Here is the issue we are having. We want to force carbonate to speed up the process of testing. What type of container can hold ~1 gallon of beer at pressure enough to carbonate it?
The only idea we have come up with so far is to use 2L soda bottles and use the special (~$14) cap which has a ball-lock gas fitting on it to pressurize it. Assuming it could handle the pressure needed.
I know other people must be dividing up batches and testing at a small scale. How is everyone else handling carbonation?
Just to be clear, natural carbonation is not an option as we want to control carbonation levels etc.
For example, we brewed a porter, we want to make it a coffee porter, we could just throw some coffee in and hope for the best but thats over a months worth of waiting just for one experiment.
We have a local coffee roaster who is willing to roast us whatever we need and would would like to experiment with different amounts of coffee and types. This means making a 5 gal batch and splitting it up into lets say 1gallon glass jugs/growlers. I have seen people make mead and small batches of beers in these 1gallon glass jugs so I know that we can easily put a stopper and airlock to use as a primary or secondary fermentor to test out dry hopping, coffee, or yeast strains.
Here is the issue we are having. We want to force carbonate to speed up the process of testing. What type of container can hold ~1 gallon of beer at pressure enough to carbonate it?
The only idea we have come up with so far is to use 2L soda bottles and use the special (~$14) cap which has a ball-lock gas fitting on it to pressurize it. Assuming it could handle the pressure needed.
I know other people must be dividing up batches and testing at a small scale. How is everyone else handling carbonation?
Just to be clear, natural carbonation is not an option as we want to control carbonation levels etc.
