Hello Everyone.
My friend and I just brewed 2 - 10 gallon batches this past weekend and we are both dreading bottling.
I picked up a 5 cubic foot freezer to make a keezer out of but because of time and money restraints there is no way I will have it ready by the time this brew is ready to keg.
Im trying to figure out the best way to do this so as to spend the least amount of money.
Here is what Im looking at,
a website sells 5gal corny kegs for 39 apiece shipped - So 2 corny kegs - $80.
I will need a regulator which I found for about $30 and I have a few C02 tanks from paintball Im thinking of repurposing for this. (im sure I will need some kind of adapter - right?
I will need hoses and connectors for the corny kegs.
The same site that sells the cornys for 39 also has a kit with 2 cornys,a regulator,hoses, keg connectors and picnic taps all for $121. - I think this may be the best way to go for me.
Anyway so thats my plan - here come the questions...
If I transfer from carboy to Keg about 2 weeks after the start of fermentation, can I just purge all the oxygen from the keg and let the beer sit, unrefrigerated in the corny for a couple weeks until I finish my keezer? or should it be refrigerated during those couple weeks?
I saw a video where someone did a pressure transfer from carboy to keg that had been brewed a couple week prior and he dropped a hop bag into the keg before transferring beer? is this normal? will the hop bag get in the way of the out tube?
Im not too certain of how the C02 works with the beer in the keg to carbonate it. Does the beer have to sit in the C02 for awhile to become carbonated or does this happen more quickly?
Lastly, if everything goes according to plan and I finish my keezer within a couple weeks of kegging, how do I know what to set the C02 regulator at so that the beer flows but doesnt get all foamy?
Thanks everyone for any advice you can give.
My friend and I just brewed 2 - 10 gallon batches this past weekend and we are both dreading bottling.
I picked up a 5 cubic foot freezer to make a keezer out of but because of time and money restraints there is no way I will have it ready by the time this brew is ready to keg.
Im trying to figure out the best way to do this so as to spend the least amount of money.
Here is what Im looking at,
a website sells 5gal corny kegs for 39 apiece shipped - So 2 corny kegs - $80.
I will need a regulator which I found for about $30 and I have a few C02 tanks from paintball Im thinking of repurposing for this. (im sure I will need some kind of adapter - right?
I will need hoses and connectors for the corny kegs.
The same site that sells the cornys for 39 also has a kit with 2 cornys,a regulator,hoses, keg connectors and picnic taps all for $121. - I think this may be the best way to go for me.
Anyway so thats my plan - here come the questions...
If I transfer from carboy to Keg about 2 weeks after the start of fermentation, can I just purge all the oxygen from the keg and let the beer sit, unrefrigerated in the corny for a couple weeks until I finish my keezer? or should it be refrigerated during those couple weeks?
I saw a video where someone did a pressure transfer from carboy to keg that had been brewed a couple week prior and he dropped a hop bag into the keg before transferring beer? is this normal? will the hop bag get in the way of the out tube?
Im not too certain of how the C02 works with the beer in the keg to carbonate it. Does the beer have to sit in the C02 for awhile to become carbonated or does this happen more quickly?
Lastly, if everything goes according to plan and I finish my keezer within a couple weeks of kegging, how do I know what to set the C02 regulator at so that the beer flows but doesnt get all foamy?
Thanks everyone for any advice you can give.