Kegged!!

Posted on 10.26.08 7:01PM under IPA, Kegging

OK, It’s official!! I am a kegger! I have kegged beer!!

Yesterday, I kegged a half a batch of Wheat and a half a batch of IPA Lite. It was so easy! And best of all, the beer is already carbonated enough for me to sample it!

Although I’m happy to be bottling a case of each of these beers to give away, the ease of kegging made me wish I could just keg the whole thing. Even so, rather than four hours to bottle ten gallons, it took about two hours to bottle five and keg five.

Mmmm…. fresh IPA Lite.

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  1. Posted by Chipper Dave on 10.26.08 8:28 pm

    Congrats! I’ve heard that kegging is definitely the way to go for your homebrew. Just as soon as I can afford the equipment, that’s the direction I want to head with my homebrew. Do you have to flood the keg with CO2 first before filling to reduce oxidation? Wonder if you had any tips on how best to load the beer off the fermenter or secondary into the keg.

  2. Posted by Keith on 10.26.08 9:10 pm

    Thanks Chipper Dave!

    The keg was full of CO2 just before I popped the lid to fill it, but I racked with the auto-siphon, as I would normally do into the bottling bucket, so I expect any remaining CO2 would have escaped during the tranfser anyway. I don’t know that you could use CO2 to transfer from a plastic bucket or carboy fermenter to a keg, since the fermenter probably couldn’t handle the pressure without popping the lid or stopper. Though I have read that some use a keg as a fermenter…

    I did pressurize, then purge, then pressurize again, and then purge again before finally pressurizing to carbonate. But I am still not so sure that I have avoided oxidation.

    I think that in the future, I’ll definitely transfer to keg as soon as fermentation is done. It seems a much better place to do a prolonged fermentation than a plastic bucket. And it is so quick and easy to do the transfer!

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