luckybeagle
Making sales and brewing ales.
Is there anything wrong with this method for bottling beer?
I'm asking because most of my beers move from the conditioning chamber to my kegerator, but I do occasionally want to bottle some of my beers that benefit from long bottle conditioning periods (strong belgians, doppelbocks, barleywines), I don't care much for using a counterpressure filler, and have multiple kegs but only 2 fermenters.
Can I do this? Any negatives? Will there be enough O2 left in the beer for the yeast to chew up the priming sugar and carbonate it?
Mainly I want to keep my fermenters moving as I like to brew regularly, and don't want to tie one up for a month or longer at a time, but also don't want to package too early and see the value in bulk conditioning.
Thoughts on this method?
- Ferment to FG + a few days
- Rack to a keg, purge with Co2 (but don't carbonate it) and bulk condition at 50F for anywhere from 2-8+ weeks
- Pressure transfer from the keg to a bottling bucket, add priming sugar, and bottle it
I'm asking because most of my beers move from the conditioning chamber to my kegerator, but I do occasionally want to bottle some of my beers that benefit from long bottle conditioning periods (strong belgians, doppelbocks, barleywines), I don't care much for using a counterpressure filler, and have multiple kegs but only 2 fermenters.
Can I do this? Any negatives? Will there be enough O2 left in the beer for the yeast to chew up the priming sugar and carbonate it?
Mainly I want to keep my fermenters moving as I like to brew regularly, and don't want to tie one up for a month or longer at a time, but also don't want to package too early and see the value in bulk conditioning.
Thoughts on this method?