KennyS1134
Active Member
Hey guys! So I made a big russian imperial stout (attempted a Dark Lord clone) It was in the primary for a week, then racked to the secondary on top of bourbon soaked oak, and vanilla beans for 2 weeks. I would like to age the beer a bit more, but am a bit confused. Here are my stupid questions/thoughts:
1. Should I strain the beer from it's current delicious oak/vanilla beans, and place in another carboy to age?
2. Should I transfer it to a keg, and let it age while carbonated?
3. How long would you suggest to age? I know the coffee, and vanilla flavors will start to fade with time.
Also, I am interested in entering this batch into a local homebrew competition, which will require it being placed into 22oz bombers. I normally keg my beer, and was wondering if adding the bottling sugar to the entire batch would cause any problems with kegging. I really only wanna bottle 5 bombers, then keg the rest of the batch (roughly 4 - 4.5 gallons). I'm not sure how to calculate how much sugar per each bottle. My past experiences have been bottling an entire batch, splitting it up is new to me.
I realize these are probably going to make most of you laugh, and wonder how I didn't set the house on fire, but I've never made a batch that was this complicated. Cheers, and thanks!!
1. Should I strain the beer from it's current delicious oak/vanilla beans, and place in another carboy to age?
2. Should I transfer it to a keg, and let it age while carbonated?
3. How long would you suggest to age? I know the coffee, and vanilla flavors will start to fade with time.
Also, I am interested in entering this batch into a local homebrew competition, which will require it being placed into 22oz bombers. I normally keg my beer, and was wondering if adding the bottling sugar to the entire batch would cause any problems with kegging. I really only wanna bottle 5 bombers, then keg the rest of the batch (roughly 4 - 4.5 gallons). I'm not sure how to calculate how much sugar per each bottle. My past experiences have been bottling an entire batch, splitting it up is new to me.
I realize these are probably going to make most of you laugh, and wonder how I didn't set the house on fire, but I've never made a batch that was this complicated. Cheers, and thanks!!