Beer ready to keg but no thermostat regulator yet

[BogusOwnz]

I ordered a thermostat regulator a little over a week ago and it still hasn't shown up. I have a beer sitting in a carboy thats ready to be kegged but since I don't have fridge to put it in I can't. Should I just bottle?

 

[marubozo]

Your beer will be fine, and probably even benefit from sitting a little longer so I wouldn't worry. No need to rush it if you have the rest of your kegging equipment and you're just waiting for one thing.

In fact, a lot of people do one of two other things you could think about. Some naturally carb up their keg. Just like you'd carb bottles by adding corn sugar, you can carb up your keg like one big bottle by adding corn sugar. Search the forums for that and you'll get a lot of posts talking about it. The other thing people do is fill their kegs and then let the kegs sit for another few weeks at room temp to further condition just like you'd do with bottles.

So, technically, you could keg your beer right now and use sugar and get it started by carbing naturally, or just keg it and let it sit and continue to age in the keg for a bit until you get your temp controller and are ready to begin serving.

 

[SweetSounds]

I ordered a thermostat regulator a little over a week ago and it still hasn't shown up. I have a beer sitting in a carboy thats ready to be kegged but since I don't have fridge to put it in I can't. Should I just bottle?

Yep,
If you want to get it started carbonating, just keg it and add the priming sugar. Or, (Assuming you already have a CO2 tank and regulator) just hit it with gas at room temp.

I always use kegs as long term conditioning tanks. You can just rack to the keg, and leave it alone.