You can just prime it and seal it. It might foam a bit when you want to tap it. (I don’t know what tapping mechanism they use).
I’d be ok with treating as I do regular
Bottles.
Home brewing thread anyone?
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I’d be ok with treating as I do regular
Bottles.
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Actually that's what I was thinking. If I prime as usual, leaving a good air space, it would be like bottling. There appears to be a filter on the end of the pickup tube so any fines would get trapped. I would have it nice and cold before putting the tapping head on so there would be no foaming (I don't get any now and I have 750mil PET bottles). In fact these PET bottles come in 4 l size too. I wonder if I could just bottle in 4l and then open one up and drink it that day. I bottle 23l, so 6 of those 4l ones and maybe no CO2 system at all. That would not cost much to try.....$6.79 on sale right now - shoot sold out! They have sales all the time. Plus I have local stores I can check
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Edit - one drawback would be that I normally do a full pour all at once due to sediment. I don't think its a deal breaker, as that is just dead yeast and other nutrients, plus it tends to get a little sticky and is not that free to move around.
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When kegging you never drink the last couple glasses. In fact I have considered shortening my pickups.
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2 gallon brew has been transferred to secondary but I haven't added flavor yet. I think we hit just above 4% ABV, not mad at it. Samples tasted really good and crystal clear. I had some free time and almost-used up ingredients so I did a quick gallon wheat brew with my remaining amarillo and citra hops. Fermentation took off right away, but again my boil off calculations are rough and I went too big this time so OG was quite low. It might be in the 3-4% range ABV when done, which again I am not mad at but practicing for predictability and consistency moving forward. I'm thinking of saving a gallon to try an apple ale with fresh juiced apples from my parent's tree. Once the base recipe is confirmed better than even the peach I think that might be my 5 gallon recipe base moving forward. We'll see!
Boil off is hard to judge. I just top it off with tap water in the fermenter. Never had an issue.
Did that with the 2 gallon and it threw off my OG a bit but that was more of an efficiency issue I think. I went way over for the gallon which I guess could also be considered an efficiency issue but in the other direction, ideally I'd go under and top off, I agree with you there. I've done it in the past and been right on the money.
