So for some background I have always keg'ed my brews and forced carbonated. I have a diy bottle filler that I use to run off a few bottles here and there when I need them, but the carbonation has never been good in the bottles.
I have to bottle a entire batch for a trade so I am looking for the best technique. I am planning on adding priming sugar to a keg, then racking the beer from secondary on top. Then hooking it up to about 4psi and filling all the bottles using the filler and let them naturally carbonate in the bottles.
I feel like this method with minimize the o2 contact to the beer, and hopefully make it easier. Also this is for a weizenbock so I want to have good carbonation. Also wheat beers are supposed to have some sediment there, I am not sure how much of a yeast cake is left in secondary. Should I take the tip off the siphon and try and suck some yeast into the keg? My end game has always been getting the cleanest beer possible in the end.
Thank you for the insight! This will be my first time bottling a whole batch and first time making a wheat beer so just trying to get it right since I have to trade them all.
I have to bottle a entire batch for a trade so I am looking for the best technique. I am planning on adding priming sugar to a keg, then racking the beer from secondary on top. Then hooking it up to about 4psi and filling all the bottles using the filler and let them naturally carbonate in the bottles.
I feel like this method with minimize the o2 contact to the beer, and hopefully make it easier. Also this is for a weizenbock so I want to have good carbonation. Also wheat beers are supposed to have some sediment there, I am not sure how much of a yeast cake is left in secondary. Should I take the tip off the siphon and try and suck some yeast into the keg? My end game has always been getting the cleanest beer possible in the end.
Thank you for the insight! This will be my first time bottling a whole batch and first time making a wheat beer so just trying to get it right since I have to trade them all.