How The Bottling And Kegging Processes Are Done

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.

And for this reason, kegging is more preferred by most of them because this can provide them with a lot of advantages compared to a bottle conditioning. The brewer can be able to control and to modulate the carbonation more deliberately and accurately. This can also mitigate oxidation and would eliminate light exposure. And lastly, this has only few presentations that are more attractive than home draught system. In this article, you will learn on some other information about the processes involved in bottling and kegging.

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.

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.

The process is more advantageous than bottling. And this is because of having greater chances for product carbonation. And also, kegging process have the control of carbonation level for beer.

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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