Saving Money on Kegging | Naturally Carbonate in a Keg
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- If you are looking to save money on kegging, try this method! Here's what happened when I set up a keg of beer without the standard regulator and CO2 bottle.
It is definitely not the best method of kegging, but if you can't quite justify the $300 budget for getting a kegging setup, this method may work for you. It is also a great way to save money on CO2 if you don't mind waiting a few extra weeks for your beer.
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I could also see using this setup for when you have to bring a keg to a party. Great video.
The charger thing is great for that! Also for if you have a half sized keg for a non kegerator fridge.
Great idea & hilarious too
Thanks for checking it out! Cheers!
The biggest barrier to kegging IMHO is the fridge space. But kegging is a game changer and 100% worth it. Get a dedicated kegerator and stick it in the garage. If I had it to do over I would have kegged earlier. The wife and kids enjoy Italian sodas, so I have a dedicated tap for soda water. The beer taps have locks to keep the teens honest.
Yep, fridge space is for sure a barrier. The method in this video would be more of a quick fix on the way to the full setup. I would like to get the soda water on tap though, wife drinks a lot of it as well and I hope I'm about three or four years before locking the taps... Cheers!
@@PartyTimeBrewing I totally recommend the soda tap, just make sure you have it on it's own regulator, you will want a higher psi, mine is set to 24. We are blessed with great tap water, so it's easy, and no cleaning between refills! Cheers!
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Clickbait! Cheers!
And thanks for the donation to the brewery fund! We'll get you up here for the grand opening!
Love this idea! and you dont have to worry about bottle bombs/over carbonation. Kegs for the win!
For sure! Worst case scenario is a little extra foam. Or flat beer... Cheers!
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I may be able to hook you up!
you do love your gadgetry and stuff.
great review and demo - which is why your channel is doing great... well done.
I do love my stuff! Cheers Rob!
You have a very good set up, and you brewed a good looking brew, cheers !
Thanks! Subbed to your channel for lucky number 600! Looks like you've reviewed a lot of great beer! Cheers!
glad i found this because ive been looking at the little keg chargers for taking kegs mobile. thanks for the info braj!
They're great for that sort of thing. A more expensive option is the kegland soda stream adapter. It takes the small cartridges as well, but if you have a soda stream, those bottles would last a lot longer and are a bit cheaper, but in Canada they're $80 vs $20 for the small charger adapter. Cheers!
Great content as always!👍🍺
Cheers Ken!
Just what I was looking for Thanks
Glad it helped! Cheers!
Good idea, never thought about that to save some money.
Yep, would really suck when a keg goes flat though... Cheers!
I've primed a keg before a few times and it's really not a bad way to do things. CO2 charger looks useful!
The CO2 charger is great when you're in a pinch or want to transport the keg somewhere. Cheers!
Luv your vids. Always pick up tips. Didn’t realize my CO2 was leaking into corney causing foaming
Hopefully it's all good and pouring perfect now! As long as it isn't leaking out of the corney, you should be all good!
Great video! Very informative. I've been thinking about doing this to save on co2. Then just use the co2 to to briefly bring it to serving pressure. Once you've had one co2 completely leak out (20lbs 😬) there's always that fear of a leaky connection somewhere. Cheers!!
It seemed to work well when I tried it, like I mentioned in the vid, if you have CO2, make sure to give it a little blast to seal the keg to guarantee it won't just leak out slowly. Cheers!
Thanks for the vid. Yea bottling sucks. Comes down to how big the "bottle is" the smaller the bottle the more work. That's why I condition in growlers and 32 oz bottles...both flip top of course. BUT I'm ready to condition in soda bottes and plastic kegs until im ready to make the jump into corny kegs and converted fridge into a kegerator. Keg condition is what I am trying to learn about, so your vid was very helpful. Thanks again
Glad to hear it was helpful. The plastic kegs are definitely a bit better budget wise, and they are great for the keg conditioning since they are screw on tops and tend to leak a little less (since the corny kegs need a bit of pressure for a good seal). Plus, if you use something like the Kegland 10L kegs, they take up a lot less room and you could possibly turn them sideways and easily fit in a fridge with no mods. Cheers!
@@PartyTimeBrewing I've never tried soda bottles before. But after discovering the kegland plastic kegs, i figure they will work. If they do work, then ill be able to ship beer to my friends without worry
Watered down happiness!
It drinks nice and easy, but just a bit of off smell, might be acetaldehyde. Maybe... Cheers!
Lil oxidation going on?
It’s party time!!! I have one of those CO2 chargers so I can take a keg with me. That thing always leaks out all the CO2, probably user error but super frustrating still.
Yeah, I haven't truly troubleshot the leak, but they are a bit annoying. Great sir storing a keg in a different fridge though. I may look into the SodaStream regulator sometime as well. Cheers!
bro i dont even drink. this is just an interesting video
Awesome to hear! Thanks for checking the channel out!
Watch for used ones from keg connection for $35. Condition carbonating with corn sugar. Then use the soda stream with kegland's regulator.
The kegland regulator looks pretty cool, I might pick one up sometime. $35 would be an awesome deal on a keg. Cheers!
Great job and a huge question. How the hell were you wearing a hoody in June? I live in Florida and it is ALWAYS hot down here.
I may have shot it in May, but still was probably a bit too hot for a hoodie! Cheers!
Where can I download that ding sound effect? I almost broke my laptop trying to click so fast after the ding prompted me to click.
It's on Napster. Cheers beast!
Oooohhh… kegging… I came here because I read it as kegel.. I was looking to… nevermind, kegging beer is better anyways… ;) Great vid! 😅 😂
That was going to be the original video, but CZcams 'autocorrected' it. Cheers!
cant do bottling anymore, after 17 years of homebrewing i switch to kegs. one batch just like that i hitted that wall... cant take it anymore
Makes so much sense. Kegging is the way to go! Cheers!
Question- so your saying i will need to squirt some CO2 from a cannister to keep pressure? hmmm you figure the keg wud be pressurizing while the yeast eats the priming sugar. creating carbonation if ur keg not leaking. similar to bottled primed beer? 2 weeks later. good video tho! thx
That is just to guarantee a seal. Sometimes the seal on the corny kegs is tricky, but possibly a bit of keg lube would work as well. It's just that if the lid has a small leak, the pressure doesn't fill up fast enough to push the seal tight. Cheers!
I love magic! I'm. Probably the only homebrewer that doesn't mind bottling.
I don't mind bottling from a keg, just not so fond of the time it takes when naturally carbbing. Cheers!
@@PartyTimeBrewing Understood! A goal for this year for me is to bottle from the keg. Cheers my friend!
No need to wait 2weeks, if your Keg is full 3 Days is enough.
Nice, I'll check that out next time. I ended up leaving it a long time and just went with the old bottle conditioning time (that is probably too long in the first place). I guess if there is not really any head space, all that CO2 would get infused pretty quick. Cheers!
Spend the .50 cents on CO2 to carbonate and dispense. You wont regret it.
For sure, this was more of a demo on how it is possible without a co2 cylinder and regulator (basically just cask conditioning...). If you're going to keep brewing, it would be silly to only do it this way (not to mention it would fail if you had a leak with no other way to carbonate other than adding more sugar and trying again...) Cheers!
The CO2 you would use to carb a keg is cheaper than the sugar. can't see how this is money saving
It depends on where you get the CO2, out here an exchange tank of CO2 is in the $30 range for a 5 pounder (maybe 5 or 6 batches) and the sugar is about $6 for 2kg which would get 20 batches. Using the CO2 cartridges is definitely more expensive though. Depends on how you look at it I guess. Cheers!
The beer was artificially carbonated because dextrose was added.
Priming sugar and CO2 injection are needed to carbonate home brew because the only types of sugar in home brew extract are highly fermentable, glucose and sweet, nonfermenting types of sugar and when yeast wipes out glucose during primary fermentation there is no sugar left to carbonate the beer.
For beer to naturally carbonate the conversion step is used. Maltotriose is one of the fermentable, complex sugars that Beta forms during conversion and that is the type of sugar responsible for natural carbonation. In home brewing the rest temperatures recommended in recipes rapidly denatures Beta, and that is why home brew has to be artificially carbonated. During conversion Beta converts simple sugar, glucose, into fermentable, complex sugar, maltose and maltotriose. When conversion occurs, secondary fermentation takes place due to maltose. Maltotriose is left and carbonates the beer during conditioning.
I'm probably just going with what is accepted most places as naturally carbonated (I could be way off...). I guess I'm looking at it in a bit of a binary perspective where it is either naturally carbonated (with adding a highly processed sugar...) or force carbonated. Are you talking about something more like spunding where you just let the tail end of fermentation carbonate or is there another process that I could look up. Thanks for taking the time to reply! Cheers!
@@PartyTimeBrewing literally never respond to this guy. His only goal is to leave negative comments. He's right some of the time, wrong some of the time... But will absolutely never leave a positive comment supporting anyone trying to put out fun educational content to people on CZcams
@@GenusBrewing I think the guy smokes dried trub or something. 😆🤣