I have started to use my kegs as primary/secondary fermenters. Wanted to know once I transfer out of secondary how long can I keep the brew in kegs before I carbonate. Have it sitting on basement floor its pretty cool down there, just want it to age a little before carbing up.
Assuming you purge/pressurize the keg and the keg is holding pressure, you can keep the beer in storage until you’re happy with how it tastes. I use kegs in that manner for imperial stouts and barleywines that need a little aging.
Maybe I’m not following your procedure, but if you’re using a clean keg for aging the beer, it’s unnecessary to rack to different keg for dispensing.
[quote=“kcbeersnob”]Assuming you purge/pressurize the keg and the keg is holding pressure, you can keep the beer in storage until you’re happy with how it tastes. I use kegs in that manner for imperial stouts and barleywines that need a little aging.
Maybe I’m not following your procedure, but if you’re using a clean keg for aging the beer, it’s unnecessary to rack to different keg for dispensing.[/quote] Cleaned and sanitized/filled with sanitize’r pressured up to 50 psi purged 10 times or so to get all o2 out checked for leaks ran out sanitizer, released pressure to about 5 psi then transferred from one keg to the other under pressure. Have it at about 2 psi left in keg now. This brew is a black ipa at somewhere near 8%.
