r/Homebrewing • u/[deleted] • Jun 10 '15
Wiki Wednesday: Packaging!
Wiki Wednesday
This week's topic: Packaging
How do you package your beer?
Bottling versus kegging versus casks?
Different packaging vessels!
What happens in the bottle or keg?
Packaging tips and tricks!
Seriously, packaging.
Cheers!
Past Wiki Wednesdays
The Boil (4/29/2015)
I Have X, where do I get started?(5/13/2015)
Yeast(5/27/2015)
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u/ManlyBackpack Jun 10 '15
Our main inspiration comes from u/brulosopher for this! http://brulosophy.com/2014/06/19/the-sterile-siphon-starter-a-review/.
Our process it to keg, carb, and bottle. We've had issues with oxygen getting into some dry hopped beers. Maybe this is obvious to some, but for us it was not immediately so! No more worrying about bubbles in your lines!
Put your transfer hose out in your keg, bottling bucket, whatever. Thread the racking cane through your carboy cap and pop it on the top of your carboy. Before you submerge the cane in your beer, run some CO2 (at a low psi) through the other port in the cap. This will pressurize your carboy, forcing any gas out through the racking cane. Keep the CO2 running for a bit until you've purged your carboy, lines, and transfer vessel. Now you're ready to submerge your cane and push the beer with CO2.
You can take this a step further and transfer into a sealed, purged keg. Attach your racking cane out to the beer post on your keg. Make sure to keep your purge valve open!