Warm Conditioning/Dry Hopping In Kegs
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Warm Conditioning/Dry Hopping In Kegs
So far I have only dry hopped and conditioned my kegged beer when they were cold. In the coming months I will be brewing a lot more beer than will fit inside my refrigerator. How long do you think I could store kegged beer in my garage? The early Spring temperatures inside the garage varies between 60F to 70F. Eventually, for my daughter's wedding in the beginning of June, I will be bottling all of the beer.
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Re: Warm Conditioning/Dry Hopping In Kegs
Good question as I've never kept my kegs that warm with dry/keg hops in them. What I can say is that if it were me, I would dry/keg hop them just before bottling time.
Meaning, I would keep them at whatever temp you have to (60-70) while conditioning, but I would dry/keg hop a week before bottling.
Meaning, I would keep them at whatever temp you have to (60-70) while conditioning, but I would dry/keg hop a week before bottling.
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Re: Warm Conditioning/Dry Hopping In Kegs
That seems t make the most sense to me too, thank you for following up. I guess storing beer in kegs at 60-70F for 2 months won't hurt anything. Then dry hopping them for 2 weeks prior to bottling.Kealia wrote:Good question as I've never kept my kegs that warm with dry/keg hops in them. What I can say is that if it were me, I would dry/keg hop them just before bottling time.
Meaning, I would keep them at whatever temp you have to (60-70) while conditioning, but I would dry/keg hop a week before bottling.
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Re: Warm Conditioning/Dry Hopping In Kegs
It would be kind of like bottle conditioning, but to give it that "freshness" keg hop it when you start cooling and carbing.


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