mardi 31 janvier 2017

The Processes Of Bottling And Kegging

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.

Because of this, most of these people have preferred kegging because they can be provided with a a number of advantages than the bottle conditioning. With this, brewers will have the control and will modulate carbonation accurately and more deliberately. The oxidation will also be mitigated and light exposure is eliminated. And lastly, it only has few presentations which are more attractive compared to a home draught system. So this article will be providing you with other necessary information on the involved processes for 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.

When waiting for the day of when the product will be bottled, bottle washer and brush would be recommended in order to ensure that all the items are clean before the process of sanitization. Aside from dishwasher, another alternative is bottle tree. This has been the best way to sanitize or and to dry the items. After this, these items must be placed in sanitizers and bottle trees for drying.

With the use of tubing and racking cane, the beer is then transferred from a fermenting bucket into a bottling bucket. While transferring, a sugar is mixed with the product. The cover or the caps must be boiled for few minutes in the stove. Then after, store the beer in the dark place having a room temperature in two weeks. Before these are placed in the fridge, make sure that these are cooled down and the carbonation is already satisfactory.

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.

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 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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