Lagering in keg question

[zacster]

My lager is doing the diacetyl rest right now, and seems to be good so far. It will be 13 days in the primary when I'll be ready to do something with it again, 8 days fermenting at around 50, slowly brought up to 56, then 62. FG came in at 1.014 from 1.064.

What I want to do is to cold crash in the primary, but then transfer to a secondary to get it off the yeast cake. And then I want to lager, but by then I may have run out of cold enough weather to do it outside, and besides the temps never stay steady outside.

I was thinking 3 weeks in the secondary in the carboy in the cold and then transfer to my keg and put it into my fridge. I'd purge the oxygen, but not otherwise put it under pressure. After another 2-3 weeks I'd turn the pressure up. Does this sound like a good plan? Or should I just carbonate it and let it sit carbonated. My fear with doing that is I would drink it.

 

[Rockn_M]

After the diacetyl rest I will move the beer into my keg and lager in there and place in my kegerator or in the fermentation chamber, if there's nothing cooking in there.

 

[Cyclman]

+1, chill it, keg it and lager it in the keg.

 

[BigFloyd]

Yep. Cold crash the primary. Skip the secondary. Rack to keg and purge. Put it away to lager. Simple and it works great.

 

[BrewDawg79]

+1 lager in the keg. Added benefit of getting to "sample" it as it ages.

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[Darwin18]

Definitely lager in the keg and carbonate it at the same time. Putting it on gas isn't going to affect how it lagers.

 

[zacster]

I guess it's pretty unanimous, put it in the keg under pressure!