I contacted both companies when I started this thread and have not received a reply yet. They might not want to deal with selling just 1 barrel to some lowly home brewer lol
I already have kegs , my shift at work has 26 guys and 2 gals , a lot with wife’s and kids. Several times a year we will get together. They all know I brew. We could finish off a barrel in a night. It would only be used for when we all got together.
I think it still imparts some kind of flavor , I’m not sure. Just in the research phase of this plan. My back yard bonfires in the winter with my neighbors need a barrel of beer.
Brewers pitch is made of pine pitch and resin. Pitch is a by product of making turpentine. It’s more or less a solid at room temp but you can heat it up and coat the inside of the barrel to keep away the oak flavor and to help seal the barrel.
I also saw barrels made by sascha rudnik. I don’t know if I want to know how much shipping would be . Has anyone here ordered from either of these company’s before ?
Has anyone bought a wooden barrel and lined it with pine pitch to use as a serving keg at parties?
I’m thinking of starting with a small one to test it out. My plan is to lager my beer out like usual , krausen in the barrel and then seal it up for a few weeks to carb and get clear again before...
You really need to give WLP-300 a try , I know someone else posted it and I know it’s supposed to have an equivalent but I have made a lot of Hefeweizen and I find 1 pack of WLP-300 per 5 gal at 66 degrees gives me lots of banana. Good luck with the quest !
I’ve been doing this since my 3rd batch a couple years ago. My false bottom was crap so I improvised and got a bag from my LHBS . I brew with a lot of wheat and haven’t had a stuck sparge since going this rout.
It’s not done carbonating yet . Only been in the keg a few days but I had to pull a sample , ended up pouring 2 more ! It’s a pre prohibition American Pilsner at 30 ibu and 5.8 abv
I never brew ipa and I might only drink 1-2 a year . I almost exclusively brew lagers . Right now I have a pre prohibition American Pilsner going . I brew a lot of Pilsner these days.