For Christmas my father sent me some of his old homebrew equipment. I'd ask him how to use it but the recipe book he sent me included a recipe for stout that called for three pounds of sugar and two pounds of black patent malt
The main thing is labelled "pressure barrel." Its a pretty good-sized black bucket (maybe three gallons? hard to tell) and has a spigot on the bottom. The screw on top has a little screw that can you can unscrew a bit if you want to let gas out but if you leave it alone there doesn't seem to be any place for the gas to get out. The side says that that the max "working pressure" is 150 psi.
What I'm guessing this thing is used for:
1. You do everything in your carboy as normal and then when the beer is done you pour it in this thingie instead of a keg or bottles with some priming sugar/malt.
2. The yeast goes to work on the priming sugar and gives you carbonation.
3. After leaving the beer in this thing for a while it'll be carbed up and the beer that comes out of the spigot will be appropriately carbed.
So basically I THINK its a poor man's keg. Am I right?
If so, how do I keep the pressure from getting too high and blowing the top of? Priming exactly like I do with bottled beer? How much head room should I leave?
The main thing is labelled "pressure barrel." Its a pretty good-sized black bucket (maybe three gallons? hard to tell) and has a spigot on the bottom. The screw on top has a little screw that can you can unscrew a bit if you want to let gas out but if you leave it alone there doesn't seem to be any place for the gas to get out. The side says that that the max "working pressure" is 150 psi.
What I'm guessing this thing is used for:
1. You do everything in your carboy as normal and then when the beer is done you pour it in this thingie instead of a keg or bottles with some priming sugar/malt.
2. The yeast goes to work on the priming sugar and gives you carbonation.
3. After leaving the beer in this thing for a while it'll be carbed up and the beer that comes out of the spigot will be appropriately carbed.
So basically I THINK its a poor man's keg. Am I right?
If so, how do I keep the pressure from getting too high and blowing the top of? Priming exactly like I do with bottled beer? How much head room should I leave?