Basically, I didn't have time to rack my beers, because I'm too busy with life.
I brewed two very high-grav beers about 3 to 4 weeks ago (stout and black IPA), and I haven't had ANY time to rack them. Right now, they're still sitting in the primary fermenters, with 0 activity in the airlocks. I do have empty carboys, but I'm worried that racking them with no CO2 formation will result in adverse oxygenation, which I want to avoid, per standard brewing ROE.
However, I want these super-high-grav beers to clarfiy/mature properly.
The best idea I have is to "flush" the carboys with CO2. However, I don't own any CO2 tanks, and I don't know how to generate it on-the-cheap.
So, I'm thinking two options:
1) go straight from primary to bottles, which I don't want to do, considering these beers started at like 1.020+
2) rack them late, but flush the carboys with CO2, somehow. I say somehow, because I don't know how to get/flush with CO2!
If you guys think option 2 is the best way forward, please let me know how to easily acquire and flush my carboys with CO2 gas. I doubt shaking up a coke bottle will help much. Club soda, maybe? I'm fresh out of ideas!
I brewed two very high-grav beers about 3 to 4 weeks ago (stout and black IPA), and I haven't had ANY time to rack them. Right now, they're still sitting in the primary fermenters, with 0 activity in the airlocks. I do have empty carboys, but I'm worried that racking them with no CO2 formation will result in adverse oxygenation, which I want to avoid, per standard brewing ROE.
However, I want these super-high-grav beers to clarfiy/mature properly.
The best idea I have is to "flush" the carboys with CO2. However, I don't own any CO2 tanks, and I don't know how to generate it on-the-cheap.
So, I'm thinking two options:
1) go straight from primary to bottles, which I don't want to do, considering these beers started at like 1.020+
2) rack them late, but flush the carboys with CO2, somehow. I say somehow, because I don't know how to get/flush with CO2!
If you guys think option 2 is the best way forward, please let me know how to easily acquire and flush my carboys with CO2 gas. I doubt shaking up a coke bottle will help much. Club soda, maybe? I'm fresh out of ideas!