LowNotes
Well-Known Member
This may have been covered before, but I was wondering if anyone has ever tried the following procedure to use a keg to bottle beer, but carb it in bottles with priming sugar:
-Rack beer to keg when done fermenting/aging
-Close keg, and before carbing, set to serving pressure
-Use tap to pour flat beer from the keg into bottles
-add measured sugar (2.0-2.1g seems like a decent estimate) or carb tabs to each bottle
-Cap bottles, set keg to carbing pressure, put bottles away for a few weeks, cleanup.
This would save the hassle of dealing with a bottling bucket/siphon, and I wouldn't have to use a beer gun (either ghetto or expensive variety). I would end up with some bottle conditioned beers for storage and/or sharing and would have the bulk of the beer in the keg for easy carbing and consumption.
What do you think?
-Rack beer to keg when done fermenting/aging
-Close keg, and before carbing, set to serving pressure
-Use tap to pour flat beer from the keg into bottles
-add measured sugar (2.0-2.1g seems like a decent estimate) or carb tabs to each bottle
-Cap bottles, set keg to carbing pressure, put bottles away for a few weeks, cleanup.
This would save the hassle of dealing with a bottling bucket/siphon, and I wouldn't have to use a beer gun (either ghetto or expensive variety). I would end up with some bottle conditioned beers for storage and/or sharing and would have the bulk of the beer in the keg for easy carbing and consumption.
What do you think?