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What do you all use to lager your beer?
Chest freezer with a temperature controller.
Kegerator
What can you get the temperature down too with a Kegerator? Can you pour some as it is lagering without interfering with the process or do you need to wait for 2-3 months?
What can you get the temperature down too with a Kegerator? Can you pour some as it is lagering without interfering with the process or do you need to wait for 2-3 months?
easy to understand right to the point about lagering, nice answer !I think you're over-complicating this lagering concept a bit. Lagering is just extended cold storage*, and can easily be accomplished as part of the standard carbonating and serving process.
You ferment your beer per usual, optionally employing a warmer diacetyl rest at the end for a couple of days, then rack it to a keg. Place the keg in your cold serving location, be it a fridge, keezer, kegerator, whatever.
Hook up the CO2 tank and set it to serving pressure. Forget about it for at least 2 weeks. Then you can start cheating and pouring off a bit to taste. You'll witness how it gets better with literally each subsequent week, up until maybe a couple of months where it levels off and stays there.
*For the pedantic among us, I'm aware of how yeast plays a role in the traditional process, slowly conditioning the beer in the cold over the long haul. But that's not essential info for our average homebrewer.
So if I understand correctly, you brew the beer, ferment it, and then place it in the keg and let it sit in the fridge until you're ready to go. And you can do this for 3 to 6 months depending on the strength of your beer?.Lager in kegs if you can. I go 3 months on most lagers, 6 months for heavier beers like Märzens. Really improves things.View attachment 705508
So if I understand correctly, you brew the beer, ferment it, and then place it in the keg and let it sit in the fridge until you're ready to go. And you can do this for 3 to 6 months depending on the strength of your beer?.
Yep, keg with with your carbonating corn sugar charge (4 to 4.3 oz), then hook up your C02 tank and purge it of C02 with 15 bursts. If you are on tank C02 for carbonating, do so do so using your favorite C02 settings. I like to naturally carbonate so I'll let the keg condition at room temperature for a couple weeks. Then into the refrigerator. I lager at 34F, I have a temperature controller for that. 3 months on most lagers is my favorite. In the last month I usually check the lager for clarity, if it needs some gelatin, I usually do that in the last month. Timing not critical though. Prost!So if I understand correctly, you brew the beer, ferment it, and then place it in the keg and let it sit in the fridge until you're ready to go. And you can do this for 3 to 6 months depending on the strength of your beer?.
Been waiting almost two years.wait for it.....
My kegerator holds 4 kegs but I have only 3 taps. The fourth keg lagers until on of other 3 kegs gets empty so it can be connected to the tap. Afterwards it lagers until I drink all the beer in it. Usually it is total ~ 4 months. Every beer lagers this way: lager, ale, Belgian, German,....So if I understand correctly, you brew the beer, ferment it, and then place it in the keg and let it sit in the fridge until you're ready to go. And you can do this for 3 to 6 months depending on the strength of your beer?.
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