PSA: Responding to bottling issues with "you should keg"

[dbhokie]

well if people would just keg and use macs there would be no homebrew or computer related problems!

This reminds me of going to a local pub nearby and every time I walk in I don't feel trendy enough. All the kids with their goodwill clothes and macs. of course PBR is trending high there as well, go figure..Microbrew or PBR be cool.

Bottles are easier to turn into weapons, and Unix slaps mac kiddies with a full sized penguin. I think however I am going to step up a trend, and walk around with a mac and a leather skin full of fermenting beer. Yeah, a leather backpack with beer fermenting in it, and a paisley shirt with a bowtie and red suit-coat with pink pants. Noone could touch me then.

 

[homebrewdad]

This reminds me of going to a local pub nearby and every time I walk in I don't feel trendy enough. All the kids with their goodwill clothes and macs. of course PBR is trending high there as well, go figure..Microbrew or PBR be cool.

Bottles are easier to turn into weapons, and Unix slaps mac kiddies with a full sized penguin. I think however I am going to step up a trend, and walk around with a mac and a leather skin full of fermenting beer. Yeah, a leather backpack with beer fermenting in it, and a paisley shirt with a bowtie and red suit-coat with pink pants. Noone could touch me then.

Please, please, please post pics of this.

 

[BierMuncher]

Truthfully, that's the better option. You can carbonate & clear in the keg, then put nice clear beer into the bottles. You don't have to worry about being perfect with mixing the priming sugar, or whether you have enough yeast left to carbonate, etc.

Kegging to carbonate, then bottling w/beergun off the keg, actually *does* solve a lot of bottling problems.....

Beergun? BEERGUN???

Why... we no need no stinkin....

Oh....

Hold on.

*** sorry ***

 

[Hammy71]

LMAO @ BierMuncher

 

[Hugh_Jass]

Beergun? BEERGUN???

Why... we no need no stinkin....

Oh....

Hold on.

*** sorry ***

you delete a bunch of threads for being ot, then this?

 

[Hammy71]

Oh...it was on topic.

 

[david_42]

Although I've never bottled a batch, I have to agree with the OP. Way too often people just jump in without a clue as to how useless their 'advice' is. Maybe if I had bottled that batch of 'Narleywine, I wouldn't have lost most of it to a gusher infection.

Even worse though, IHO, are the guys from the USA who post on threads from outside the States with solutions that are impossible to implement anywhere but here.

 

[Bamsdealer]

I may keg at some point, but I really enjoy sharing beer with others and bottles make it easy. Not to mention, kegging would certainly lead to an increase in alcohol consumption on my part... and I drink too much as is.

 

[lou2row]

When I see the posters commenting on how you should keg, I just assume they are compensating for their miniscule genitalia.

I don't get angry, I pity them.:rockin:

 

[mikeysab]

I may keg at some point, but I really enjoy sharing beer with others and bottles make it easy. Not to mention, kegging would certainly lead to an increase in alcohol consumption on my part... and I drink too much as is.

Yeah, i'll say. I just burned through a keg in 8 days. I gave a bunch away, but not more than I drank

 

[b-boy]

this happens everywhere. I posted on a DIY site asking how to install laminate flooring in my basement. The first response I got was 'Why are you installing laminate?' 'You should install hardwood'.

 

[Yooper]

When I see the posters commenting on how you should keg, I just assume they are compensating for their miniscule genitalia.

I don't get angry, I pity them.:rockin:

Where you peeking at me again?

Anyway, we can all agree that saying "you should keg" is inappropriate. Make sure you click "report this post" so a moderator can delete it. Sometimes just a word or a simple delete of inappropriate responses, no matter what the topic, is enough for people to learn how to behave in our forum.

 

[Bamsdealer]

Yeah, i'll say. I just burned through a keg in 8 days. I gave a bunch away, but not more than I drank

It's easier to control if I only put a few bottles in the fridge at a time. Not sure I could resist if I had a fresh tap or three tempting me every time I stood up.

 

[Zamial]

Not sure I could resist if I had a fresh tap or three tempting me every time I stood up.

Resistance is useless. I am now on my way to the 13% Cherry braggot on tap.

 

[smokinghole]

I have a handfull of 10gal kegs but never use them (except as fermentors). I might use a 5 gal keg if/when I finally pick one or two up. I love bottling my beer because 75% of what I make is belgian, and half of that is saison. I like my saisons at 3.5-4 volumes and that's EASY to do with bottles. I guess it could be done with a keg but I also do a lot of more interesting brett beers. I equally would rather bottle them. I don't want to need 20 kegs because I brew something that I'd like to age. Kegging is great if you brew all "consume now" types of beers. However when I brew a sour I'd rather just clean and package in bottles so I can have 2-3 cases of it for long term consumption. I tend to think that if someone is having such a tough time bottling they're doing something very wrong. Spend the $40 get a bottling tree with a vinator and make your life easy.

Also while Sierra Nevada and Bells both keg, their bottles are all bottle conditioned too. If a brewery can do it bottle conditioning saves money for breweries by decreasing CO2 use.

Plus how cool is it to pop the cork on a 9L bottle of saison for a party?

 

[BrewerBear]

Could not agree more. I have no desire to keg,Have thought about tap a draft or some other mini system to be able to take to cook outs or what not.