Bottling after cask
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dopejack
Bottling after cask
I was about to bottle my attempt at a nice Summer ale yesterday, because my cask was already full, when I looked in GWs book for any tips and he says that bottling without some cask conditioning first is actually bad practice. So, as I had all the bottles sterilized and ready, thought I'd take him at his word and bottle the beer that had been in the cask for 3 weeks, then cask the new beer. I can see the immediate advantage of having a beautiful bright bottled beer with no sediment, but despite carefully and slowly bottling it with a length of syphon tubing, won't I have lost some of the liveliness of the beer?
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Re: Bottling after cask
I havent tried bottling from a keg... but in my opinion....
Yes you will have. I wouldn't say that it was bad practice not to bottle from the keg or even a secondary fermenter. Just a different method.
If it has dropped pretty bright in the FV usually 7-10 days I would bottle from there. Always making sure you draw some yeast either in suspension or added to the priming sugars. Some swear by avoiding priming sugars and bottling just short of the FG, so the residual couple of points will carbonate the beer.
Bottling from the keg will however will decrease or prevent a build up of yeast sediment in the bottle. But the carbonation surely will range from the start of the batch being more carbonated than the last? Seems hard to manage to me.
Yes you will have. I wouldn't say that it was bad practice not to bottle from the keg or even a secondary fermenter. Just a different method.
If it has dropped pretty bright in the FV usually 7-10 days I would bottle from there. Always making sure you draw some yeast either in suspension or added to the priming sugars. Some swear by avoiding priming sugars and bottling just short of the FG, so the residual couple of points will carbonate the beer.
Bottling from the keg will however will decrease or prevent a build up of yeast sediment in the bottle. But the carbonation surely will range from the start of the batch being more carbonated than the last? Seems hard to manage to me.