Am kind of running out of carboys at this point with my ‘sour program’, and need somewhere to stick my RIS until the dark days of WNY winter. I do have a few more cornies than I currently use.
My question is should I purge the keg if I am going to bulk age. I feel like a lot of what happens during aging/cellaring is that some of the alcohols oxidize and turn ‘heat’ into yummy luscious figs/prunes, etc. I would think for that to happen, you would want SOME oxygen in the vessel.
Personally, I wouldn’t want any oxygen in there, but it sounds like you have an experiment on your hands. Do you have 2 available cornies?
Purge one completely with CO2
Leave some oxygen in the other
Age’em
Report back
Despite the fact that a carboy would allow some oxygen to be in contact with the beer, I don’t think that’s necessarily a good thing. Put it in the keg and purge it. You can always oxidize it later of you want to.
[quote=“dobe12”]Personally, I wouldn’t want any oxygen in there, but it sounds like you have an experiment on your hands. Do you have 2 available cornies?
Purge one completely with CO2
Leave some oxygen in the other
Age’em
Report back[/quote]
Dobe you’re such a know-it-all. Do you have any scientific data to back up your advice!? Anything!?? [insert additional 3 paragraphs of nonsensical diatribe]
Just thought I’d fuel the fire from the other thread :mrgreen:
Maybe I’ll age a gallon of it in a non-purged container. 5 is a little too much RIS for experimentation. Thanks for the suggestion! :cheers:
:lol:
:cheers:
[quote=“Pietro”]Dobe you’re such a know-it-all. Do you have any scientific data to back up your advice!? Anything!?? [insert additional 3 paragraphs of nonsensical diatribe]
Just thought I’d fuel the fire from the other thread :mrgreen: [/quote]
