Beer0clock
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New brewer and new member here, hi!
After reading on this forum and others for weeks, I finally took the plunge and started my first brew. Its a Festa Brew West Coast IPA. 23 Liters.
Its getting close to ready and I was getting set up to bottle it, but then I found the huge debate about kegging vs bottling. The kegging argument won me over hands down, and I ended up buying this keg system:
http://www.ontariobeerkegs.com/Dual_Tap_Kegerator_Complete_Kit_p/newkegs-2kegdualregkit.htm
Note that the Cornys I bought look a little wierd - they dont have that black plastic on top like they typical Cornys do. However as far as I know its still a Corny. It says "Max Capacity: 5 gallons" right on the side.
So out of curiosity I tried to pour 23 liters of water from my bottling bucket into the Corny, and it didn't fit! There was a lot of water still left in the bucket. It turns out the Corny only holds about 18 - 19 liters.
At this point I would just like to say why in the @#$%! can't we all just use the metric system already? I swear to god I would vote for any leader who outlawed the word "gallon". Yeah pretty frustrated right now. /rant
Anyway so heres the deal:
5 us gallons = 19 liters
5 imp gallons = 23 liters
And of course everyone just says "gallons" without classifying whether they are imperial or US.
Anyway I'm just wondering how people handle this situation?
Festa Brew kits are 23 liters, is that unusual? Are most brew kits 19 liters and I just chose a bad one?
Do I have any options other than kegging 19 liters of the beer, and bottling the other 4 liters? I really have my mind set against bottling. I would not have dropped several hundred dollars on a keg system if I knew I would still have to bottle some of the beer anyway.
What am I missing guys? My mind is absolutely BLOWN that I literally spent hours and days on this forum reading about kegging and the pros/cons of kegging vs bottling, and I don't recall one single mention that a keg does not fit a full batch of beer. How is that not the most talked about CON when discussing kegging vs bottling??
After reading on this forum and others for weeks, I finally took the plunge and started my first brew. Its a Festa Brew West Coast IPA. 23 Liters.
Its getting close to ready and I was getting set up to bottle it, but then I found the huge debate about kegging vs bottling. The kegging argument won me over hands down, and I ended up buying this keg system:
http://www.ontariobeerkegs.com/Dual_Tap_Kegerator_Complete_Kit_p/newkegs-2kegdualregkit.htm
Note that the Cornys I bought look a little wierd - they dont have that black plastic on top like they typical Cornys do. However as far as I know its still a Corny. It says "Max Capacity: 5 gallons" right on the side.
So out of curiosity I tried to pour 23 liters of water from my bottling bucket into the Corny, and it didn't fit! There was a lot of water still left in the bucket. It turns out the Corny only holds about 18 - 19 liters.
At this point I would just like to say why in the @#$%! can't we all just use the metric system already? I swear to god I would vote for any leader who outlawed the word "gallon". Yeah pretty frustrated right now. /rant
Anyway so heres the deal:
5 us gallons = 19 liters
5 imp gallons = 23 liters
And of course everyone just says "gallons" without classifying whether they are imperial or US.
Anyway I'm just wondering how people handle this situation?
Festa Brew kits are 23 liters, is that unusual? Are most brew kits 19 liters and I just chose a bad one?
Do I have any options other than kegging 19 liters of the beer, and bottling the other 4 liters? I really have my mind set against bottling. I would not have dropped several hundred dollars on a keg system if I knew I would still have to bottle some of the beer anyway.
What am I missing guys? My mind is absolutely BLOWN that I literally spent hours and days on this forum reading about kegging and the pros/cons of kegging vs bottling, and I don't recall one single mention that a keg does not fit a full batch of beer. How is that not the most talked about CON when discussing kegging vs bottling??