I am going to start kegging some of my beer, but I would like to bottle a few (maybe about 12 beers) of every batch to stash away. I was thinking of bottling some at the same time I rack to the keg, not sure if this is the best way? I was thinking of racking a small amount of beer from the fermenter into the bottling bucket. I would just try to get as close to racking one gallon, for instance, as I can. Then I would add 1/5 of the usual amount of priming sugar to the bottling bucket. Then, of course, I would bottle that beer and have about a twelve pack to stash. Then I could take the remaining 4 gallons left in the carboy and rack that straight into the keg and force-carb that.
Does this sound like a good way to accomplish my goal? Do you guys have any other suggestions or techniques for doing this? Thanks!
Does this sound like a good way to accomplish my goal? Do you guys have any other suggestions or techniques for doing this? Thanks!