pcolson
Well-Known Member
Ok so im pretty new to this as you probaly all see my posts... but i was wondering what is the difference in kegging and bottling besides carbonating faster? like maybe a Pro and Con list?? thanks
Patrick
Patrick
The tops just pop off and you rack into them the same way you would a carboy.lots of insight. do the cornys tops just come off and you syphon it in or is it pushed in with CO2 or how does that work?
It is not as easy to take over to a friend's house for the ballgame if all your beer is in a keg.
Meh, I dont really agree with this. I can bottle up a nights worth of drinking from a keg in less than 10 minutes. I guess you could call this a disadvantage, but it really is no big deal.
The only disadvantage to kegging is the price.
It is not as easy to take over to a friend's house for the ballgame if all your beer is in a keg.
C'mon, there ARE a few disadvantages to kegging....
they don't last forever. .
I don't have a problem with portablity. A small 2.5 or 5 lb CO2 bottle, corny keg and cooler on wheels ain't a BFD to me . But I don't drive a Mini Cooper either.
A batch does not last as long (meaning I drink more often when all I have to do is pull a tap)
Hehe...I've brought a keg to several parties in my Mini! I drop the keg into a round wastebasket that's a little bigger in diameter and grab a picnic tap and one of my spare tank/regulator combos. Sits upright in the "boot" of the Mini, no worries. Once I'm there, we ice it down.
My biggest concern is that sediment gets stirred up, and I don't want want to pour cloudy beer and tell people I made it. So I either bring the keg the night before, or I bring hefe!
.it's SO easy to just pull another pint, or top off the one you've already got going.
(meaning I drink more often when all I have to do is pull a tap)
For the most part I agree with Yopper but I can think of one other con to kegging. I take my beers a lot of places to share with friends and kegging is bulky to haul around. You can buy or rig a gun to bottle from a keg but for me it's just as easy to bottle directly. For me it's not one or the other, I keg and I bottle depending on the end purpose of the beer I am brewing.
A downside of kegging is not knowing how many you had the night before!
I looked at the prospect of bottling 2 zillion 12-oz bottles per batch, so I bought some 1L flip-top bottles. I can fill 13-16 really quickly and be done with it. Then I stash a couple in the fridge door for the weekends.
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