I think I read about someone doing this. I plan to brew a RIS in a month or so that I'll pseudo barrel age with oak cubes soaked in bourbon.
If people have done this (age in the keg), can you provide some guidance?
I was thinking I'd rack straight from the primary to the sanitized keg that already had the oak/bourbon in it, then connect C02 to the keg and purge a number of times to remove O2 (or maybe do a pressure transfer to a purged keg like I do with my IPAs).
I'd finish that process by opening the PRV to get to zero or near zero pressure. At that point can I just seal the keg and stick it in a place at a reasonable temp? Do I need to worry about pressure building up if some additional fermentation kicks in? Can I just connect a tap to draw off samples periodically?
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
If people have done this (age in the keg), can you provide some guidance?
I was thinking I'd rack straight from the primary to the sanitized keg that already had the oak/bourbon in it, then connect C02 to the keg and purge a number of times to remove O2 (or maybe do a pressure transfer to a purged keg like I do with my IPAs).
I'd finish that process by opening the PRV to get to zero or near zero pressure. At that point can I just seal the keg and stick it in a place at a reasonable temp? Do I need to worry about pressure building up if some additional fermentation kicks in? Can I just connect a tap to draw off samples periodically?
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.