21 Dec
2004
21 Dec
'04
2:15 p.m.
Now that's the kind of crazy s--- thinking that I like to see coming
out of our Grand Masters...
Steve, have you used this method of "in the bottle" force carbonation
chamber?
In theory, it should work. In reality, I don't know. What happens when
the corny is opened? You gotta cap them, fast.
At what temp/pressure are you setting these at? I'm guessing I would go
something like 20 psi, knowing it would never hit that in the bottle,
for a week at 34F, hoping for a 10-12psi result.
I would still probably move the uncarbonated beer into a cleaned,
sterilized, and purged with CO2 corny, then use the CPBF (counter
pressure bottle filler) to deliver the beer to the sterilized bottles
as part of the CPBF process is to purge the O2 with CO2, then put the
uncapped bottled into a cleaned, sterilized, purged corny.
Andrew
--- Steve Piatz <piatz(a)cray.com> wrote:
I tried a variation. I did the plastic jug but then
collected the
resulting liquid directly into sanitized bottles. I then placed the
uncapped bottles inside a CO2 purged corny keg at the appropriate
pressure - I'll remove them later this week to cap the bottles. I am
not sure this is going to work but figured I could end up with more
beer this way since I won't have worry about loss via the counter
pressure filler when I only have enough liquid for a very few
bottles.
You can get around 6 bottles to stand up inside a corny, use some
empties if necessary to keep the full ones from tipping over.
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:29:09PM -0500, aboyce(a)mn.rr.com wrote:
If you freeze a sanitized plastic water jug 3/4
full and stick it
in an
ordinary refrigerator freezer, I've found it
achieves the purpose.
Leave
it a few days, then strain the resulting slurpee
through a
sanitized
stainless steel strainer into another container
to collect your
reward!
(If the container happens to be a corny keg, then
your beverage can
be
carbonated prior to bottling...)
- Al
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Steve Piatz piatz(a)cray.com
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Mendota Heights, MN 55120