Keg the beer, or crossing over to the keg side.
Yet another photo essay by Darrell and Vicky Bedard, cause I’m learning how from these photo’s. They boldly went where I thought was silly. These are Darrell and Vicky’s photo’s. This is my wordy experiances.
One of the challenges I have making beer at home, is getting bubbles into the beer. Beer is basically flat like plain red wine when finished.
The method I first used involved putting a measured amount of sugar in the beer before bottling. You then put the beer into bottles and put a cap on them. The yeast with a small amount of sugar to eat will jump up and make CO2. Rather than having bubbles escaping into the air lock you get fizz trapped in the beer. This takes two more weeks and the yeast will leave a bit of white sediment on the bottom of each bottle that you have to be careful not to drink. This yeast by-product is the “dregs”.
Beer can be put into a Keg for carbonating, rather than bottle conditioning. It takes only a few min. prepare your beer this way but you have to invest in a bit of equipment.
The CO2 tank, regulator, and hose will sit outside of the “fridge” thanks to this handy hole?
Image Details, Filling a keg with beer from the plastic fermentor.
This is Josh helping fill the last 4 litres of beer into bottles, as the keg only holds 19 L out of the 23 L batch. Funny I don’t remember smiling that much when I had to “pick the eggs” or “feed the chickens”.
Close the door the beer is getting warm! Pictured is the CO2 tank and hose, on the left outside the fridge, the hose runs through a hole and attaches for carbonation. Lots of room left over for more keg’s.
The method for carbonating varies on who you talk to. Some are high pressure shakers. Some are low pressure rockers. Everyone agree’s that the beer has to be cold to become carbonated.
Yet others just put the CO2 on the keg and have a wee sample every day or so.
- This is what I am doing:
- Day one, no bubbles, no surprise.
- Day two, flat beer with foam on top.
- After three days the beer has a small amount of carbonation in it. The bubbles rising in the glass are small but dissapear after one minute.
- After five days the beer is carbonated.
Cheers.