{"id":1208,"date":"2012-12-27T16:11:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2012-12-27T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T20:11:04","slug":"homebrewing-racking-some-recent-beers-to-kegs-and-some-initial-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/12\/27\/homebrewing-racking-some-recent-beers-to-kegs-and-some-initial-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Homebrewing: Racking some recent beers to kegs and some initial thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quick end of year update on home brewing I began this journey in May and have brewed quite a few batches. I think I’ve done 20 batches this year but I honestly can’t remember. I should keep a batch notebook. Anyway, the beer I brewed in September using White Labs’ Berliner Weisse vial received a fruit addition in November and was ready to keg this week. My concern was particles and gunk making their way into my kegs. This is a very realistic concern as my cheese cloth idea failed<\/a> miserably and more gunk than I had preferred made its way into the keg. I cold crash all of my beers before kegging and it still happened. Oh well.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I also bottled the remaining gallon or so of my roughly 9% Coffee Stout into 5 22oz Bombers. I also bottled up the last of my cider with most of it going into flip-top growlers to be shared with friends asap. I had to bottle these up because they were almost gone anyway and I really needed to free up the kegs.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the beers I did keg yesterday didn’t really need to be kegged. I’m moving this weekend and I’d prefer to move beer in kegs than in glass carboys so, despite my beers not being matured to the level I wanted, I transferred them and purge the O2 so they’ll just mature in kegs instead of in carboys. Fermentation on these was complete but the flavors could use a bit more time.<\/p>\n