juse
Well-Known Member
I've been reading about long-term food storage, particularly grains, & one of the techniques that caught my eye was using a piece of dry ice in a 5 gallon bucket, then filling the bucket up 3/4 of the way with dried grain, and then placing a silica gel packet on top. The dry ice melts, turning into CO2 gas, displacing the oxygen, then you seal up the bucket. Stays good for years.
Anyway, I got to thinking, couldn't I use dry ice to carbonate my beer somehow? Has anyone done this or heard of it? Seems like I could put small chunk of it in my bottles right before bottling & it would be ready rather quickly. I guess the cold might crack the bottle, don't know. I know it would kill the yeast.
Is this totally insane, or a good idea?
Anyway, I got to thinking, couldn't I use dry ice to carbonate my beer somehow? Has anyone done this or heard of it? Seems like I could put small chunk of it in my bottles right before bottling & it would be ready rather quickly. I guess the cold might crack the bottle, don't know. I know it would kill the yeast.
Is this totally insane, or a good idea?