Bottled the India Brown Ale. Turns out I don't have enough bottles to package the Munich Dunkel, so I may keg it this weekend and let it lager in the keg for a week before force carbonating
What are you doing with homebrew today?
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If you want to, you can kill two birds with one stone (terrible similie but it works), no reason not to put the co2 on it whilst it lagers.
Exactly good idea really
Oh did something for home brew. I checked tracking on yeast and malt 
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Checked on the Shady Bohemian fermenting, may be something to that article I read on pitch rate. Appears to be right on track to finish working(air lock activity anyway) in the usual 4-5 days that 497 finishes in despite only putting in about 40% of my usual pitch.
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Unless it carbs up and becomes too delicious to save some for my family visiting in November
Picked up ingredients from the brewshop and did my first ever CO2 tank swap! I'll be kegging a beer for the first time tomorrow gonna transfer my Munich Dunkel and let it lager a couple more weeks. I'm excited by the prospect of letting my lagers actually lager instead of bottling them for carbonation first.
I'll be doing a gravity transfer to the keg (gently), and then purging the headspace with CO2. Do y'all usually also fill your keg with CO2 first for a gravity transfer for extra insurance against oxidation?
gonna transfer my Munich Dunkel and let it lager a couple more weeks. I'm excited by the prospect of letting my lagers actually lager instead of bottling them for carbonation first. I'll be doing a gravity transfer to the keg (gently), and then purging the headspace with CO2. Do y'all usually also fill your keg with CO2 first for a gravity transfer for extra insurance against oxidation?
I wouldn’t say I fill with co2 but it gets a good hit and purgePicked up ingredients from the brewshop and did my first ever CO2 tank swap! I'll be kegging a beer for the first time tomorrow
I'll be doing a gravity transfer to the keg (gently), and then purging the headspace with CO2. Do y'all usually also fill your keg with CO2 first for a gravity transfer for extra insurance against oxidation?
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Picked up ingredients from the brewshop and did my first ever CO2 tank swap! I'll be kegging a beer for the first time tomorrow
I'll be doing a gravity transfer to the keg (gently), and then purging the headspace with CO2. Do y'all usually also fill your keg with CO2 first for a gravity transfer for extra insurance against oxidation?
I get a bit overboard on the purge thing
I do a purge on the keg and put a line from the keg back to the fermenter . Complete loop.
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I purge sometimes.
I send my fermentation co2 through keg then close transfer to keg once finished fermenting.
You can also push starsan or SMB solution out of keg for a better purge using fermentation co2.
You can also push starsan or SMB solution out of keg for a better purge using fermentation co2.
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After bingeing?
After each cleaning, I put in about a half gallon of starsan and then pressurize the keg. I do purge the air out using the pressure release valve two or three times to get mostly CO2 inside the keg and less air. I then leave it that way (pressurized) until it's time to fill it. I connect a party tap and empty out the sanitizer, then release the pressure and start filling the keg through the out port, with a qd on the in (gas) port to let pressure out as it fills.Picked up ingredients from the brewshop and did my first ever CO2 tank swap! I'll be kegging a beer for the first time tomorrow
I'll be doing a gravity transfer to the keg (gently), and then purging the headspace with CO2. Do y'all usually also fill your keg with CO2 first for a gravity transfer for extra insurance against oxidation?
Brewed up a wheat beer with azacca and kegged the Munich Dunkel. Very pleased with the clarity in the Dunkel. It's on a little bit of pressure of CO2 and I'll let it lager until the 1st week of November when family will be visiting
If my back allows I’m going to transfer the Manchester Gold to a serving keg. Will not be able to clean the fermenting keg so I may have to wait. I may throw it in the garage to “crash” in the 40-50 degree garage and transfer in a few days. On a side note my back is still $h!t
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