Hi all from europe! Long time reading, first time posting something in the forum.
I’m quite new to brewing, I started with some more experienced friend brewing directly AG batches and I’m currently at my 10th batch. I’m seriously thinking about starting to keg my beer instead of bottling it. For space reasons and “wife” reasons, I’m not allowed to buy a 5gal corny keg.
I’ve found this project on kickstarted and I’m seriously thinking of buying some of this ½ and 1 gal growlers. I know that are pricey, but honestly these are what I was really looking for in terms of size. Having 4-5 64oz growlers would allow me to dry hop my IPAs with different hops and then store them directly in these kegs.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mancanbeer/mancan-put-a-brewery-in-your-fridge-not-a-growler
I have however some questions for you guys about kegging my beers:
1) With ManCan kegs, carbonation can be done directly in the keg like with a corny. Does it means that I can store my batch in the keg without adding corn sugar to them after the secondary?
2) ManCan growlers come with tap or without. Since I’m planning to buy 10 of them, I suppose that they come with a flat stopper/cap (the one you can see in the picture above). Is it a problem to store uncarbonated beer in the growler, then open the stopper when I want to plug the tap system to it? Does the air inside the keg need to be replaced with CO2 to maintain the beer? And if so, how can I replace that air and then close the growler with the flat stopper since it doesn’t come with valves?
A lot of open questions I hope you could answer
Cheers
tsa
PS: mistake in the title... >> advises
I’m quite new to brewing, I started with some more experienced friend brewing directly AG batches and I’m currently at my 10th batch. I’m seriously thinking about starting to keg my beer instead of bottling it. For space reasons and “wife” reasons, I’m not allowed to buy a 5gal corny keg.
I’ve found this project on kickstarted and I’m seriously thinking of buying some of this ½ and 1 gal growlers. I know that are pricey, but honestly these are what I was really looking for in terms of size. Having 4-5 64oz growlers would allow me to dry hop my IPAs with different hops and then store them directly in these kegs.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mancanbeer/mancan-put-a-brewery-in-your-fridge-not-a-growler
I have however some questions for you guys about kegging my beers:
1) With ManCan kegs, carbonation can be done directly in the keg like with a corny. Does it means that I can store my batch in the keg without adding corn sugar to them after the secondary?
2) ManCan growlers come with tap or without. Since I’m planning to buy 10 of them, I suppose that they come with a flat stopper/cap (the one you can see in the picture above). Is it a problem to store uncarbonated beer in the growler, then open the stopper when I want to plug the tap system to it? Does the air inside the keg need to be replaced with CO2 to maintain the beer? And if so, how can I replace that air and then close the growler with the flat stopper since it doesn’t come with valves?
A lot of open questions I hope you could answer
Cheers
tsa
PS: mistake in the title... >> advises