I am brewing a Northern Brewer Empire Builder Cream Ale (seen here: https://www.northernbrewer.com/products/empire-builder-imperial-cream-ale-extract-kit).
This will be my first kegged beer. It seems as though it also a beer that might do well with a little extra time. When would you keg? As soon as fermentation stops, which would be a few days at the rate it's going? Give it two weeks (the suggested primary fermentation time) then keg? Give it the whole 4 weeks primary/secondary period to ferment and clear? And, with your recommendation, would you force carbonate with the quicker methods, or let it carbonate at serving pressure for a bit?
In the meantime I put water and a jug of Simply Limeade in the keg to have some sparkling water, so I'm not in a particular hurry...only modestly impatient...
This will be my first kegged beer. It seems as though it also a beer that might do well with a little extra time. When would you keg? As soon as fermentation stops, which would be a few days at the rate it's going? Give it two weeks (the suggested primary fermentation time) then keg? Give it the whole 4 weeks primary/secondary period to ferment and clear? And, with your recommendation, would you force carbonate with the quicker methods, or let it carbonate at serving pressure for a bit?
In the meantime I put water and a jug of Simply Limeade in the keg to have some sparkling water, so I'm not in a particular hurry...only modestly impatient...