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Sunday 29 January 2017

The Processes Of Bottling And Kegging

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.

Using the brown bottles would be better because of having an ability to block UV light that can break down those hop oils that can give the product a skunky smell. A bottle maybe sanitized in many different ways. Dishwasher is the easiest and the most commonly used way. Washing the items with using heated dry cycles is one sufficient way for killing some microorganisms that maybe present.

When waiting for the day of when the product will be bottled, bottle washer and brush would be recommended in order to ensure that all the items are clean before the process of sanitization. Aside from dishwasher, another alternative is bottle tree. This has been the best way to sanitize or and to dry the items. After this, these items must be placed in sanitizers and bottle trees for drying.

With the use of tubing and racking cane, the beer is then transferred from a fermenting bucket into a bottling bucket. While transferring, a sugar is mixed with the product. The cover or the caps must be boiled for few minutes in the stove. Then after, store the beer in the dark place having a room temperature in two weeks. Before these are placed in the fridge, make sure that these are cooled down and the carbonation is already satisfactory.

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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