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It will be weeks before I can tap Ralph's Ruff and Ready Red. Then it occurred to me. There is no reason I couldn't bottle some then I can try it in a week or two. So I sanitized and put half a teaspoon of sugar into two bottles. I filled them from my keg with my picnic tapper and capped them.

I often bottle when I keg. But generally it's because there is some leftover, and I can't stand to waste it.

It could be interesting to try say a bottle a week to see how that beer matures over time.

Look into getting one of these. I'll keg my 5 gallons and put the remainder into a 2 liter tonic water bottle. Squeeze out the excess air, tighten the cap and hit it with about 25 psi of Co2. Shake it, as the Co2 goes into the beer the bottle will get a little soft. Lather, rinse, repeat until the bottle stays hard. Toss in the fridge and enjoy when it gets cold. After I pour a beer I leave the cap loose, squeeze the air out, tighten the cap and hit it with Co2 again. It's also great for taking beer to go.

This is Jim Johnson's Middletown Pale Ale 24 hours after carbing that way.



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Interesting. I kegged a batch of Crown Top Pale Ale last Saturday (3/19). I just left it carbonating because I already had my two taps working. One of them kicked it on Friday. Today, I cleaned everything out and attached the beer line and drew one. No problems. It's carbonated just great, and clear as any beer you'd want it to be. And I even lost a day of carbonating/pressurizing because my CO2 tank bit the big one last week, and I had to pick up a new tank in the morning and install it that evening.

When I bottle, I usually wait at least 2 weeks before I chill and pop one. But I've found the wait time on kegging to be faster than the bottling/conditioning time. And this latest batch bears that out.

If it makes you feel any better, I rarely have any patience. If I re-brew something, I'm anxious to taste the changes. If I try a new hop, I'm anxious to taste what it brings to the table. When I use new equipment, i'm anxious to see if it made a difference.....see the pattern?

Kealia wrote:If it makes you feel any better, I rarely have any patience. If I re-brew something, I'm anxious to taste the changes. If I try a new hop, I'm anxious to taste what it brings to the table. When I use new equipment, i'm anxious to see if it made a difference.....see the pattern?

It sounds very familiar

FedoraDave wrote:Interesting. I kegged a batch of Crown Top Pale Ale last Saturday (3/19). I just left it carbonating because I already had my two taps working. One of them kicked it on Friday. Today, I cleaned everything out and attached the beer line and drew one. No problems. It's carbonated just great, and clear as any beer you'd want it to be. And I even lost a day of carbonating/pressurizing because my CO2 tank bit the big one last week, and I had to pick up a new tank in the morning and install it that evening.

When I bottle, I usually wait at least 2 weeks before I chill and pop one. But I've found the wait time on kegging to be faster than the bottling/conditioning time. And this latest batch bears that out.

When I bottled, I conditioned for a long time, especially if I used adjuncts. By a long time, I mean months.

Now that I keg, I figure it's ready to drink once it's carbonated. Same goes for beer I bottled from the keg.

When I bottled I figured when it was carbonated it wa ready. It was always fine in a week.