kegging half and bottling half

[bobeer]

I split the cost of a batch of IPA with a friend. He has to bottle his half and I want to keg mine. I usually cold crash IPA's before I keg and force carb so I can drink it fresh asap. This is my buddy's first batch of beer so I thought it would be cool to be able to keg my half the day before so we can sample a little of it as we bottle the other half.

We're bottling his half on Saturday evening. My plan is to cold crash the whole batch on Thursday morning then rack my half off the top and keg Friday night. Then leave the 2nd half out from Friday night to Saturday evening to warm back up to bottle.

Does anyone see any issues with me doing this? The only issue I can come up with is not having enough yeast racked over to carb the beer in the bottles. I'm assuming by leaving the 2nd half out at room temp it'll warm up enough so I can rack over some of the yeast.

I've thought about bottling from the keg but I've never done that and I really don't want to mess up his half of the beer. Thanks!

 

[Psylocide]

No need to warm it back up to bottle.

Just keg your half, bottle his at the same time. The beer will come to room temp in the bottles.

Edit: There will be more than enough yeast in suspension to carb the bottles. Even after cold crashing.

Personally, I'd bottle off the keg, but it took me a few tries to get it down.

 

[atom]

only risk i see is potential oxidation for the second half. you could keg and force carb the whole batch and bottle from the keg...

 

[MrHopScotch]

IPAs in particular are quite sensitive to oxidation so I wouldn't recommend kegging half then waiting a day with that much oxygen in the carboy. If you are set on doing this I would make sure to purge the carboy with a bunch of co2. Otherwise I would just rack the whole thing to the keg and purge, then rack half to the bottling bucket when you bottle.

 

[bobeer]

so if I cold crash the whole batch in the fermentor I shouldn't have any issues racking over enough yeast to carb it naturally in the bottle?

 

[Psylocide]

so if I cold crash the whole batch in the fermentor I shouldn't have any issues racking over enough yeast to carb it naturally in the bottle?

No, there is still a bunch of yeast in suspension... more than enough to get the job done. I've heard people say they take a little longer to carb, but haven't found this to be the case in practice.

 

[bobeer]

No, there is still a bunch of yeast in suspension... more than enough to get the job done. I've heard people say they take a little longer to carb, but haven't found this to be the case in practice.

sweet. thanks!

 

[seagondollar]

only risk i see is potential oxidation for the second half. you could keg and force carb the whole batch and bottle from the keg...

This. I will never boil sugar rack to the botteling bucket ever again. Bottling from the keg works out awesome.

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln3sGEmfijs[/ame]

 

[bobeer]

This. I will never boil sugar rack to the botteling bucket ever again. Bottling from the keg works out awesome.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln3sGEmfijs

Hey, that looks simple enough... How long does the carbonation last? Just as long as doing the priming thing?

 

[user 30639]

I always bottle some and keg the rest. Usually I'll rack to the bucket, bottle what I want and then put the rest in the keg all in the same session. I think I"m going to start just kegging all of it and then bottling from the keg.

 

[Psylocide]

Hey, that looks simple enough... How long does the carbonation last? Just as long as doing the priming thing?

It took me a couple tries to get the pressure right, but it works well.

I've only opened them a few hours to a day later and the carb was good, but really... where could the carbonation go once the bottle is sealed?

I fill almost to the top of the bottle, give it one blast and cap right on the foam. I would think the carbonation would last indefinitely, unless you had a bad seal.

I might be wrong though. I shipped some off that's been in the bottles for around two weeks or so at this point, but probably won't have feedback on that until Saturday or so.

 

[bobeer]

It took me a couple tries to get the pressure right, but it works well.

I've only opened them a few hours to a day later and the carb was good, but really... where could the carbonation go once the bottle is sealed?

I fill almost to the top of the bottle, give it one blast and cap right on the foam. I would think the carbonation would last indefinitely, unless you had a bad seal.

I might be wrong though. I shipped some off that's been in the bottles for around two weeks or so at this point, but probably won't have feedback on that until Saturday or so.

"Where would it go?" Is my logic too. I'll give it a go and see how it goes. If you think about it let me know how the 2 week old ones turn out. Thanks for all the info!

 

[seagondollar]

Yep carb lasts just as long, saw a YouTube where a guy drank his keg bottled soda 2 years later with no change in carbination.