The Processes Involved In 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.

There are 2 main disadvantages of bottling and these are its being time consuming and tedious chore, thus, you need to be prepared. There are various kinds of bottles for use in beers. If you prefer to have the cheaper ones, you can choose the commercial type of bottles. Twisting these off can be undone and also, these commercial ones require some up front works for the removal of labels when cleaning.

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.

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 the racking cane and the tubing, the beer will be transferred from the fermenting bucket to the bottling bucket. When transferring, the sugar is being mixed to the product. The caps should be boiled first in few minutes using the stove. After, the beer is stored in a dark place with room temperature for 2 weeks. Before these are placed inside the fridge, be sure to cool them down first and see to it that these already have satisfactory carbonation.

Forcing to carbonate the product is done with the use of a kegging process. This means that the carbonation process is used with a carbon dioxide tank and not the priming sugar. A forced carbonation can result into a lesser sediment and clearing the beer becomes quicker.

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 the process, sanitizer and water must be both running through the system. A keg is then filled in with newly fermented beer before the cap will be placed. Carbon dioxide will be attached and turned on. It is important for the oxygen to be purged by pulling few times the relief valve.




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