Hello all,
I put a few ounces of oak chips and wyeast brett b in a corny keg a couple of yeast ago. I've filled it with beer and let sit for a 3 or 4 months in my basement, then carbed and put in the keggerator to drink, then refilled without cleaning and repeated the process. Its worked out pretty good and have done 5 beers in it. I recently had a porter in it and I want to refill with the orval clone I brewed a couple weeks ago. Id like to clean it out to remove any of the old yeast and sediment from the dark beer but I don't want to mess with the Brett. Any thoughts on how to do this?
My current thoughts are:
1. just rinse with cooled boiled water
or
2. collect the wood chips in a sanitary way, clean and sanitize the keg as normal then re-add the wood chips (with the healthy brett still living in the wood)
Whats a better option for cleaning but still keeping an active brett culture?
Thanks
I put a few ounces of oak chips and wyeast brett b in a corny keg a couple of yeast ago. I've filled it with beer and let sit for a 3 or 4 months in my basement, then carbed and put in the keggerator to drink, then refilled without cleaning and repeated the process. Its worked out pretty good and have done 5 beers in it. I recently had a porter in it and I want to refill with the orval clone I brewed a couple weeks ago. Id like to clean it out to remove any of the old yeast and sediment from the dark beer but I don't want to mess with the Brett. Any thoughts on how to do this?
My current thoughts are:
1. just rinse with cooled boiled water
or
2. collect the wood chips in a sanitary way, clean and sanitize the keg as normal then re-add the wood chips (with the healthy brett still living in the wood)
Whats a better option for cleaning but still keeping an active brett culture?
Thanks