I apologize if this is a stupid question but I'm a little unsure on this.
I keg the majority of what I brew but I also enjoy sharing with others and hope to start entering competitions which obviously requires me to bottle a bit. I hope to eventually compliment my grainfather with their conical but for the time being I'm using plastic buckets. In the past, I've just kegged directly from the primary fermenter but I know to bottle, I also need to transfer to another vessel first.
As an example, let's say I have a final volume of six gallons. How difficult would it be to avoid oxidizing and/or infecting my beer if I first transferred to a bottling bucket, kegged five gallons to be force carbonated, added priming sugar mixture to the remaining gallon and bottled that?
Like I said, I usually package straight from the primary but I know this is not possible if I bottle. Will the above method work or does anyone have another suggestion? Thanks in advance.
I keg the majority of what I brew but I also enjoy sharing with others and hope to start entering competitions which obviously requires me to bottle a bit. I hope to eventually compliment my grainfather with their conical but for the time being I'm using plastic buckets. In the past, I've just kegged directly from the primary fermenter but I know to bottle, I also need to transfer to another vessel first.
As an example, let's say I have a final volume of six gallons. How difficult would it be to avoid oxidizing and/or infecting my beer if I first transferred to a bottling bucket, kegged five gallons to be force carbonated, added priming sugar mixture to the remaining gallon and bottled that?
Like I said, I usually package straight from the primary but I know this is not possible if I bottle. Will the above method work or does anyone have another suggestion? Thanks in advance.