AA Root Beer (Kegged)

[dwolf1203]

Am i able to force carbonate wooden barrels or would a metal keg be recommended, or can i store the root beer without carbonation and then carbonate after it ages at a later date?

 

[Yooper]

Am i able to force carbonate wooden barrels or would a metal keg be recommended, or can i store the root beer without carbonation and then carbonate after it ages at a later date?

You can't' force carbonate in wooded barrels. You can in a stainless keg.

I don't know how long it would "age" at room temperature before it would spoil. Most people store their soda in a fridge.

 

[Yooper]

Force carbing is simply carbing a keg from a co2 bottle. You could easily make a non alcoholic rootbeer this way. I would assume you would just mix the flavor extract with water add to the keg and carbonate with CO2. Usually when using the term "force carbing. " they are referring to setting the regulator to a higher pressure than desired, then shaking the keg to force the co2 into solution faster when after shaking and re-hooking the co2 back up you don't hear gas rush back into the keg then bleed off excess gas reset to serving pressure and enjoy. Personally I usually set it to serving pressure and giving it a week or so to come up to pressure.


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Not exactly! "Force carbing" means not using yeast to naturally carbonate the soda, and instead using c02 by forcing it via pressure into the drink. It just means using an external source of c02, not shaking or turning it way up.

Some people do shake and things, to hurry up the process, and that's called "burst carbing".

 

[dwolf1203]

thank you to everyone who answered my questions, iv'e retained this knowledge and actually alot better understanding of the process now, looks like im gonna be holding onto these barrels til i;m legally allowed to brew alcohol.

 

[Homercidal]

thank you to everyone who answered my questions, iv'e retained this knowledge and actually alot better understanding of the process now, looks like im gonna be holding onto these barrels til i;m legally allowed to brew alcohol.

FYI he will not be able to post for a year unless he contacts the mod forums to say he is of age. Just a reminder, if you are underage, please don't sign up here. It's the rules.

Or if you do, have the basic common sense to not admit it in your post... :cross:

 

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

Not exactly! "Force carbing" means not using yeast to naturally carbonate the soda, and instead using c02 by forcing it via pressure into the drink. It just means using an external source of c02, not shaking or turning it way up.



Some people do shake and things, to hurry up the process, and that's called "burst carbing".

Yes. As usual, you are correct. Burst carbing would be as I reffeed to. And yes shaking or no would still be force carbing. I really shouldn't have taken the liberty in stating that shaking was the end all be all of force carbing. I just meant force carbing was using co2 to carbonate the "beer" instead of relying on yeast to do the job. My misrepresentation of facts. ( bows out respectfully)



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