Cold crashing in Keg

[Jason McKenzie]

Hi all,
Just a quick question. I have a small bar fridge as my keggerator and no room to cold crash my fermentor. Would it be worth it to transfer the beer into a keg and cold crash (using the keg as a secondary) then transfer to the final keg for carbonation and dispensing.
Or just transfer it and carbonate then let the yeast fall out of suspension in 1 keg

Thoughts?

 

[shoengine]

If you are keeping the keg still, I'd just cold crash and serve out of one keg. You can dispense the first pint or so of yeast/trub from it and then resume standard pours. Standard practice these days are as few transfers as possible.

Alternatively, If you were using the keg as a primary, I'd say it would be best to transfer after cold crashing due to the increased trub.

 

[Murphys_Law]

If you are keeping the keg still, I'd just cold crash and serve out of one keg. You can dispense the first pint or so of yeast/trub from it and then resume standard pours. Standard practice these days are as few transfers as possible.

Alternatively, If you were using the keg as a primary, I'd say it would be best to transfer after cold crashing due to the increased trub.

This is exactly what I have been doing. I transfer to my keg and let it carb at “basement temp” using the last few points and/or some sugar, and then throw It in the keezer. The first few pints do look like yeast stew!

 

[Jason McKenzie]

Great thank you. That is what I have been doing until now so I will just carry on.
Thank you for your input

 

[GPP33]

Twice I have moved beer from one keg to another. Worked great both times and the second keg had zero sediment. I did it for other reasons but there's no reason your idea wouldn't work. If the receiving keg is clean, sanitary and purged of O2 you're risk of damaging the beer is almost zero.

 

[balrog]

If the keg is travelling to tennis party or whatnot, I push to a clean keg. If it stays in the basement and won't be jostled, just let it be.