I filled my first keg last night. The beer is a Classic Dry Stout from a recipe I got at Kirk's Brew here in Lincoln.
It's going to be tuff to go back to bottles after this. I'm letting it carbonate naturally, so all I had to do last night was add the priming suger and siphon it in over. I did have to do a little extra cleaning of the keg this first time to get all the pepsi residue out. The brunt of it was soaking it for 24hrs. I had to take the intake / outtake off (which were rusted on) and apart to get all the residue off, but again that was just a matter of soaking it. After replacing the o-rings on the dip tube and ball locks, I was good to go.
The beer turned out nice and dark. I'm curious to find out how dry it is. I forgot to give it the precarbonation taste test, so I guess I'll have to wait for it to be done to find out.
4 comments:
That is awesome! I got excited just looking at the keg! How long do you need to wait before you can drink it?
I bet it's dry, I bet, but it's not too dry, I bet it quenches thirst, I bet it brings people together, I bet.
2 or 3 weeks, because I'm letting it carbonate naturally. If i force carbonated it, it could be ready in 3 or 4 days.
FORCE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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