The Processes Of Bottling And Kegging

Written By Admin on Minggu, 29 Januari 2017 | 05.23

By Henry Kelly


When packaging the beer after production, there are 2 basic options that maybe used. Both of the options have pros and have cons. In bottling, you can save money because of its lesser costs but it can be time consuming. While kegging would require much initial investment but can save time. Most home brewers will bottle the fermented product either for aging or for some artisinal considerations.

Because of this, most of these people have preferred kegging because they can be provided with a a number of advantages than the bottle conditioning. With this, brewers will have the control and will modulate carbonation accurately and more deliberately. The oxidation will also be mitigated and light exposure is eliminated. And lastly, it only has few presentations which are more attractive compared to a home draught system. So this article will be providing you with other necessary information on the involved processes for bottling and kegging.

Bottling is being considered as very tedious and as time consuming type of chore, thus, being prepared would be very important. There are a lot of types of bottles which maybe used in order to bottle a beer. If you have a limitation for the budget, the best suggestion would be using the commercial bottles. These types cannot be twisted off and these would require an up front work for removing the labels and cleaning.

Brown bottles are recommended because there are better due to having the ability of blocking UV light and breaking down the hop oils, giving a skunky smell into the product. To sanitize a bottle can be done in various ways. The most common way is dishwasher and is also considered as the most easy. Using the heated dry cycle when washing the items is very sufficient because any present microorganisms maybe killed.

And if you are going to wait until the day for bottling, using the bottle brush and washer is suggested for ensuring that these are clean prior to the sanitization process. An alternative for dishwasher is the bottle tree and this is the best way for sanitizing and drying the items. Then after place them in the sanitizer and in a bottle tree for drying.

With using a racking cane and a tubing, from fermenting buckets, the beers will be transferred into bottling buckets. During the transfer is mixing the sugar along with the product. Boiling the caps for a few minutes using a stove is to be done. The beer is then stored inside dark place for two weeks in room temperature. Before placing the, in a fridge, cooling them down is necessary and make sure that the carbonation is necessary.

Forcing to carbonate the product is done with the use of a kegging process. This means that the carbonation process is used with a carbon dioxide tank and not the priming sugar. A forced carbonation can result into a lesser sediment and clearing the beer becomes quicker.

The process is more advantageous than bottling. And this is because of having greater chances for product carbonation. And also, kegging process have the control of carbonation level for beer.

In this process, make sure that you are running a sanitizer and water into the system. The keg will then be filled with beer which is newly fermented before capping. Then next is attaching the carbon dioxide and turning it on. Purging the oxygen would be necessary by pulling the relief valve few times.




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