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Force carbonating bottles???
I would like to know as much about force carbonating bottles, like the big boys, as y'all can tell me. I've been doing natural carbonation for a while and would like to some day graduate to opening a brew pub/micrbrewery. I live in south Mississippi and the only local brew you can get is Ale and I and most in the region are lager lovers. I can't seem to find much info on this so any links that you give would be greatly appreciated.
I don't think there is a way to force carb a bottle... The only way I know to bottle is either flat with added priming sugar, or from a keg with beer gun attachment.....
As for making a lager, especially in the South you would probably need a lagering refridgerator. I lived in Albany, GA for a year in the service, and if where you are is as hot or hotter in the Summer, you'll need a fridge!
Once you got a fridge, you just brew a lager, stick it in the fridge, let it ferment nice and slow, then drop the temp for lagering, at least a few months to be really clean and clear...
To get force carbonated beer into a bottle you first need to keg the beer and carbonate it in the keg. Fill bottles from the keg using a counter pressure bottle filler. Just search google for "counter pressure bottle filler" and you'll be inundated with information. Commercial breweries that do not referment in the bottle use this technique but it is slightly different than how homebrewers do it because they incorporate the bottle filling into an automatic bottling system.
With a CPBF, how long does the carb last in the bottle?
ricka182@
Thanks for your input. I do have a lagering cabinet that I built. Works great. All I brew is lagers. Mainly a Bock that I made up. Thanks a gain for your input.
P.S. I would be willing to bet that it gets hotter here than GA. If not hotter a much higher heat index. I'm on the Gulf Coast. Just as humid as it wants to be.
firewater wrote:
With a CPBF, how long does the carb last in the bottle?
Just as long as carbonation lasts in any bottle once capped?
Maybe you can rephrase.
As with any technique of filling bottles from a keg, you do loose some of the dissolved CO2 during the transfer. With a CPBF CO2 loss is minimized due to the fact that before filling with beer the bottles are purged of O2 and are pressurized just below the pressure of the keg. If someone is having problems with undercarbonated beer after filling bottles with a CPBF, you should either check the tightness of the caps or try to pressurize the keg a little more than you normally would to compensate for any CO2 loss that might occur during the bottle filling process.
But yes, as Brechez states, if properly sealed, bottles will not loose any CO2 regardless of how they were filled or how the beer was carbonated.
High,
As cold beer has the ability to absorb/contain more CO2 than warm beer, the beer as well as the bottles should be as cold as possible when filling with counter-pressure.
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skookum
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