Keg Aging

[AngusPA]

bottled beer has to age for at least a couple weeks to carbinate. many on here have said that the beer also benefits from aging even longer in the bottle. if you're kegging, would you let it age in the keg for just as long (ie. a month). could this be done at room temperature before force-carbonating in kegerator?

 

[birvine]

It is what I do, but keep in mind that you want to give the keg a shot of co2 to make sure the lid is sealed.

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[jtgrigg]

I aged mine in the keg for the same time as a bottle all I did was put some c02 in and pulled the valve open about 5 times to let the air out then just aged it for 2 weeks and it has lots of carbonation now.

Good Luck

 

[AngusPA]

I aged mine in the keg for the same time as a bottle all I did was put some c02 in and pulled the valve open about 5 times to let the air out then just aged it for 2 weeks and it has lots of carbonation now.

Good Luck

How did it carbonate if it wasn't hooked up to CO2? did you add priming sugar to the keg?

 

[Seven]

bottled beer has to age for at least a couple weeks to carbinate. many on here have said that the beer also benefits from aging even longer in the bottle. if you're kegging, would you let it age in the keg for just as long (ie. a month). could this be done at room temperature before force-carbonating in kegerator?

Don't confuse aging with carbonating. If a beer tastes best with some aging, like stouts, barleywines, and Belgians, for example, then it doesn't matter if you keg or bottle; they will still require the same amount of aging time.

Carbonating is something that people can and usually do along with the aging.