Fermenting in bottles

Hi there I was wondering will my beer ferment quicker in bottles rather than a keg


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Do you mean carbonate? It will carbonate quicker in the keg.

If you mean ferment, well you don't ferment in either of those, so I don't really know how to answer. You ferment in some other vessel with some way of letting the CO2 escape, like an airlock or a blowoff assembly. After fermentation is done, you carbonate by either bottle conditioning by adding a measure amount of priming sugar, or by force carbing in a keg. Hope that helps.

 

Hi. I'm quite new to brewing and trying a summer ale, I've done my primary fermentation for about 2 1/2 weeks and I've bottled half and put half in a keg, I wondered if the bottles will be ready before the keg as I don't want to waste the ale if it's not ready to drink


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Welcome to homebrewing! Keep doing plenty of research and you'll get it in no time. A good place to start would be howtobrew.com by John Palmer. Try to read through that.

So you put the beer in the keg and then pressurized it with Co2, and then bottled some with the appropriate amount of bottling sugar, right? If you did all that, the keg should be ready much faster, probably about a week. I've had to wait up to 4 weeks or more in the bottles until they were the way I wanted them.

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Hi, yes that's exactly what I did, thanks for the reading info and you've been very helpful.
Thanks


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Quick point to make. Although a keg can be force carbed or naturaly carbed in about a week or so, that doesnt mean the beer is ready. If you brewed it and fermented in 2 1/2 weeks the beer is still very green. One of the reasons bottled beer is better in 4 weeks is that it matures for a month while its carbing. Can it be drank? yes. Will it be good in a week from a keg? Can be. But would it be better from either a keg or bottle after a few more weeks of time. Absolutely. All this based off of the fact that its a summer ale that is not suposed to be drank young.

 

Thanks for the advice, the last ale I brewed was admiral reserve that I left in the keg for about 8weeks before drinking and was a really nice pint, think I might leave this one about the same


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