Do you disconnect the gas during the 48 hours?
yes i do, however i will put the gas back on to pump it back up to 30 after 24 hours.
Do you disconnect the gas during the 48 hours?
jflongo said:I have a keg condition question. If you keg your beer, and then set the keg aside for a week. Do you first put some CO2 in it, to get rid of oxygen?
I kegged a 7 day old pale ale last night, yes, 7 days old. Proper pitch rates, well oxygenated, carefully controlled ferm temps (including a ramp-up after FG was stable, which only took 4-5 days). Tastes excellent, not "green" at all, of course, pales and IPAs are usually best fresh anyway, but no off-flavors.
I put it on 30psi, vented a bit, then shook in 15 second intervals, twice. This might be the fastest beer I've had, but I always let the beer tell me when it's done, and this one was done. There's no reason to leave it in the keg longer, plus I'm almost out of beer in kegs anway.
Feel free to go straight into the keg. Shove your autosiphon hose right over a liquid quick disconnect. Leave the lid pressure relief valve open and start siphoning away.
Can't think of any benefit to hitting the bottling bucket first.
Just got into kegging a few days ago so sorry for using the wrong terms. Yes that is what I mean.
No worries mate. Last time I didn't ask, the guy said "pressure vessel" and I assumed he meant "keg". Turns out its some British Mr. Beer device. Gave a page of bad advice before somebody said something.
I'm going to be kegging my first time this weekend. Do you fill the keg straight out of the fermentor or does it go into the bottling bucket first?
A good practice is to pressurize the keg and purge it a few times before you rack your beer to the keg. This gets the O2 out of the keg. You'll see a layer of 'fog' in the keg. That's your CO2 layer. When you rack you'll have a layer of CO2 between your beer and the air. It will help minimize oxidation.
Feel free to go straight into the keg. Shove your autosiphon hose right over a liquid quick disconnect. Leave the lid pressure relief valve open and start siphoning away.
A good practice is to pressurize the keg and purge it a few times before you rack your beer to the keg. This gets the O2 out of the keg. You'll see a layer of 'fog' in the keg. That's your CO2 layer. When you rack you'll have a layer of CO2 between your beer and the air. It will help minimize oxidation.
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Good grief why have I never thought about doing this?!?!
I typically remove the lid and just rack to the bottom of the keg with the lid off like I was shown when I started. I think I just changed the way I rack to my kegs.
I have that a try this weekend. I was able to siphon starsan into the keg no problem. When I tried to siphon beer, it wouldn't go. Ultimately I ended up dropping the tube through the open cover. I tried keeping the exhaust valve open and then cracking the cover open. I'm not sure what was going on. Oh well, I have a few more beers to perfect the process on.
Did you get resistance when trying to pump the autosiphon? That would indicate that either the disconnect wasn't fully seated, or that you have the wrong poppet (too long or too stiff) installed in the liquid post.
I will try with some StarSan first as well, good thinking. I'll post my results in a week or so.
For those that do this, is there anything special to be aware of here?
No, it pumped just fine, it just wouldn't hold a siphon.
Yes. Be sure that the keg isn't pressurized when you connect it.
Ask me how I know...
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/how-destroy-auto-siphon-get-black-eye-386252/
Probably a dumb question, but how do you know when its full with the top on? Just let it squirt out the relief valve? I have a 15 gal fermenter.
the siphon will stop when there's no more room in the keg.
Which means you're past full.
Easiest way to know you're going to be full is to look at the volume marked on the outside of the bucket.
OF COURSE BLEED THE 30psi out of keg after the 2-1/2 days.
Unfortunately I'm not using a bucket. I'm coming straight out of a 20 gallon SS conical.
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