The Processes Of Bottling And Kegging

By Henry Kelly


When packaging the beer after production, there are 2 basic options that maybe used. Both of the options have pros and have cons. In bottling, you can save money because of its lesser costs but it can be time consuming. While kegging would require much initial investment but can save time. Most home brewers will bottle the fermented product either for aging or for some 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 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.

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.

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.

Rather than the bottling, this is the most common process that most brewers prefer. The reason for this is due to having a greater chance for a product carbonation. The kegging process also controls the level of beer carbonation.

In this process, make sure that you are running a sanitizer and water into the system. The keg will then be filled with beer which is newly fermented before capping. Then next is attaching the carbon dioxide and turning it on. Purging the oxygen would be necessary by pulling the relief valve few times.




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