The Processes Involved In Bottling And Kegging

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.

This reason has made the people prefer kegging rather than bottle conditioning because they can benefit from it a lot. One benefit for brewers is they can have control on carbonation and can modulate it more accurately and deliberately. Mitigating the oxidation is also being done and the light exposure will be eliminated. Lastly, having few presentations can be much attractive than the home draught system. With this article, more information is learned about how bottling and kegging processes work.

Bottling is being considered as very tedious and as time consuming type of chore, thus, being prepared would be very important. There are a lot of types of bottles which maybe used in order to bottle a beer. If you have a limitation for the budget, the best suggestion would be using the commercial bottles. These types cannot be twisted off and these would require an up front work for removing the labels and cleaning.

Brown bottles are recommended because there are better due to having the ability of blocking UV light and breaking down the hop oils, giving a skunky smell into the product. To sanitize a bottle can be done in various ways. The most common way is dishwasher and is also considered as the most easy. Using the heated dry cycle when washing the items is very sufficient because any present microorganisms maybe killed.

And if you are going to wait until the day for bottling, using the bottle brush and washer is suggested for ensuring that these are clean prior to the sanitization process. An alternative for dishwasher is the bottle tree and this is the best way for sanitizing and drying the items. Then after place them in the sanitizer and in a bottle tree for drying.

With using a racking cane and a tubing, from fermenting buckets, the beers will be transferred into bottling buckets. During the transfer is mixing the sugar along with the product. Boiling the caps for a few minutes using a stove is to be done. The beer is then stored inside dark place for two weeks in room temperature. Before placing the, in a fridge, cooling them down is necessary and make sure that the carbonation is necessary.

When the carbonation is being forced, the process is referred to as kegging. This process for carbonation involves the use of carbon dioxide tanks instead of a priming sugar. Forcing the carbonation would probably result to having lesser sediments and quicker beer clearing.

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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