Monday, January 30, 2017

How The Bottling And Kegging Processes Are Done

By Henry Kelly


After the production, a beer is packaged and this packaging process may either be done in 2 different options. Both options may have some advantages and disadvantages. For bottling, saving money due to having lesser costs is an advantage while it is time consuming. In kegging, initial investment is required while saving time. Mostly, home brewers bottle the products for aging or for other artisinal considerations.

And for this reason, kegging is more preferred by most of them because this can provide them with a lot of advantages compared to a bottle conditioning. The brewer can be able to control and to modulate the carbonation more deliberately and accurately. This can also mitigate oxidation and would eliminate light exposure. And lastly, this has only few presentations that are more attractive than home draught system. In this article, you will learn on some other information about the processes involved in bottling and kegging.

Bottling is very tedious according to many and is also a time consuming chore, and thus, you must be prepared. Bottles that are used to bottle the beer come into different types. If your budget is limited, you are suggested to make use of commercial bottles. The commercial ones would require up front works in order for the labels to removed when cleaning. Twisting them off cannot be done as well.

Using the brown bottles would be better because of having an ability to block UV light that can break down those hop oils that can give the product a skunky smell. A bottle maybe sanitized in many different ways. Dishwasher is the easiest and the most commonly used way. Washing the items with using heated dry cycles is one sufficient way for killing some microorganisms that maybe present.

When waiting for the day of when the product will be bottled, bottle washer and brush would be recommended in order to ensure that all the items are clean before the process of sanitization. Aside from dishwasher, another alternative is bottle tree. This has been the best way to sanitize or and to dry the items. After this, these items must be placed in sanitizers and bottle trees for drying.

With the use of tubing and racking cane, the beer is then transferred from a fermenting bucket into a bottling bucket. While transferring, a sugar is mixed with the product. The cover or the caps must be boiled for few minutes in the stove. Then after, store the beer in the dark place having a room temperature in two weeks. Before these are placed in the fridge, make sure that these are cooled down and the carbonation is already satisfactory.

In the kegging process, the product is being forced for carbonation. This would mean that the process of carbonation will be used with carbon dioxide tank instead of priming sugar. When carbonation is forced, the result would be having lesser amount of sediment and quicker clearing of beer.

This process is also being considered as more advantageous compared to bottling. The reason is because there is a much greater chance that the product is going to carbonate. And also, the kegging process can be able to control the carbonation level of a beer.

During the process, you need to make sure to run water and sanitizer to the system. Then after is filling the keg with beer that is just newly fermented prior to placing the cap. Next is to attach the the carbon dioxide then turn it on. To purge the oxygen is necessary through pulling a relief valve a few times.




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