Kegging and time

[firejim]

I have only made 6 batches so far and have bottled them all. I find it takes a month or two before the beer take good. I have everything I need to keg a batch and just afraid to make the jump. If it takes weeks on the bottle will it take weeks in a keg to start tasking right or with the co2 make it age faster?

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

Time ages beer. It takes weeks to carb in bottle and mere minutes to carb in keg.

 

[Cider123]

Many beers improve with age regardless, but in the case of carb conditioning you can be drinking kegged beer in a few days vs 3-4 weeks in the bottle. There are some techniques that will give you carbed beer within a single day. I force carb for 36 hours at 3 times the serving pressure then back it down to serving pressure afterwards. So I put a mild ale in the keg Friday afternoon and I plan on drinking off it tonight. Will it be as good now as it will in a few weeks? Maybe not, but it'll taste damn good tonight.

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

This is what I do from my own personal experience I rack My brew into my keg put some co2 in and purge out the o2. Then place it in the keggerator for 24 hrs. Then I put my dial on 20 psi set the keg on it side a nd set a timer for 2 mins. Shake like crazy and once timer beeps I stop shaking it and place it back into the fridge to let it calm down I personally let it set another day. Then when I want to drink it I purge out the co2 and put my Guage on like 5psi to serve.blam fresh cold brew in 2 days rather than 14 days