Hi I'm brewing my first ever beer from a kit. It's an English real ale and it's been in the fermentation bucket for a week now so I'm thinking about racking. I've decided to bottle half and keg half as it's my first, to get a feel for both methods. First off is it a good idea to both bottle and keg? Secondly the instructions that come with the kit only specify how to keg the beer. They say to use 3 tblsp of sugar ( not included in the kit!) I was wondering should I simply split the sugar up and put half in the keg and distribute the other half evenly into bottles? Or should I should I put all of the sugar into the keg, then bottle half of it straight from the keg? Being new to this I would like to get everything right and I've seen so many different ways for priming I don't know which is the best! Please respond I need some reassurance as I am worried about ruining my first batch of beer!
Priming keg and bottles
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Just this past weekend I was ready to 'package' a Hobgoblin clone. I decided I wanted some to be available to bring to others' homes yet have some on tap. So, it is not unusual to keg and bottle the same batch. That being said, you'll want to prime the kegged beer less than the bottled beer. Do a quick search to see how much sugar is needed for your volume of beer. A few points to keep in mind: once you have primed the keg, give it a shot of CO2 both to purge any O2 and to seal the main gasket otherwise it may never seal under priming carbonation; I haven't thought to transfer to the keg and then to bottles - I rack to a sanitized pail then to keg/bottles. An extra transfer may introduce something you don't want into your beer. Be careful, not paranoid, and everything should be fine.
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PS I passed through your city back in 1986 on my first long-distance bicycling tour as I traveled from Leigh-on-Sea northwards and back again. Beautiful area!
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PS I passed through your city back in 1986 on my first long-distance bicycling tour as I traveled from Leigh-on-Sea northwards and back again. Beautiful area!
birvine said:
I don't have a separate bottling bucket so I think I will just bottle from the keg, I can't see why it would be a problem. Also that is one hell of a bike ride man! Cheers for the tips anyway you have helped greatly!
