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Bottling Beer
Taken from Graham Wheeler's Brew Your Own British Real Ale:
All beer destined for bottling should first be matured for a time in a cask. Bottling straight from the fermentation vessel is bad practice and should be avoided. Copyright Campaign for Real Ale 2009
Discuss.
Planning: Something with Styrians, Discovery Clone
Fermenting:
Condtioning:
Drinking: Twibute Clone, PJ Clone
Fermenting:
Condtioning:
Drinking: Twibute Clone, PJ Clone
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Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Why? If the beer is allowed to mature after fermentation in primary or secondary then why should it not be able to go to bottle. I wonder when he first wrote it, 2009 may have been a re print.
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Posted 1 year ago by Member
He goes on to say that the bottle is a sealed container and that the volatile compounds created by fermentation have no way to escape.
He also says that even the worse commercial breweries condition their beer before being bottled!
I have to say that I have never cask/barrel conditioned but I'm willing to try this on my current brew. Just to see if it makes any difference. I've got a simple Fixby Gold kit fermenting at the moment so it's going in the barrel for a couple for weeks before bottling.
Fermenting:
Condtioning:
Drinking: Twibute Clone, PJ Clone
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
I was under the understanding that the longer you leave the brew on the yeast, or in secondary the better it will be,but this is because the yeast that is left over is clearing up after itself. Im assuming a cask would have to be sealed until tapped so where would the compounds go to if its sealed (like a bottle)?
Plannin'-
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nathbrew@gmail.com
Posted 1 year ago by Member
The cask is vented a day or two before bottling.
Fermenting:
Condtioning:
Drinking: Twibute Clone, PJ Clone
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Then in that case there should be no difference with cask or fv or bottle conditioning if you vent. Lets be honest he's probably right, but is it worth doing on a smaller scale like us homebrewers? Will we really get that difference? I rekon your right in going for it to see what difference it makes, but I cant see how differnt it will be, especially if you secondary ferment under airlock.
Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!
nathbrew@gmail.com
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Well, I went for the old keggeroonie option with my Fixby Gold Kit. After much mucking about with the tap and washers I actual got it to stop dripping! I'll leave it for 2 weeks and then bottle. Although, as you've mentioned Nath, I'm not at all sure what the difference is between this and putting it in a FV for a secondary fermentation! Got to experiment ain't yer.
Fermenting:
Condtioning:
Drinking: Twibute Clone, PJ Clone
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