i'm starting to get a stockpile of beer ready for the winter, but I'm running into a situation where I cant go directly from cold crash into the kegerator.
The kegerator will be full of kegs when the cold crash of another batch is done.
Is it ok to cold crash and then start keg conditioning warm?
Or is it bad for the beer to get cold in the cold crash, then warm for a few weeks in a keg before getting it into the kegerator? If so, I could fix the problem in either of 3 ways.
1. I could dry hop longer (up to 2 weeks ok?)
2. I could cold crash longer
3. I could primary longer
But in either case I want to stockpile around 40 gallons for the winter. So even longer dry hops and cold crashes wont fix the problem. I could do longer primaries, but then I cant free up carboys for the next batches. About 4 batches will need to be dry hopped/ cold crashed and the other 4 will not.
Any ideas?
The kegerator will be full of kegs when the cold crash of another batch is done.
Is it ok to cold crash and then start keg conditioning warm?
Or is it bad for the beer to get cold in the cold crash, then warm for a few weeks in a keg before getting it into the kegerator? If so, I could fix the problem in either of 3 ways.
1. I could dry hop longer (up to 2 weeks ok?)
2. I could cold crash longer
3. I could primary longer
But in either case I want to stockpile around 40 gallons for the winter. So even longer dry hops and cold crashes wont fix the problem. I could do longer primaries, but then I cant free up carboys for the next batches. About 4 batches will need to be dry hopped/ cold crashed and the other 4 will not.
Any ideas?