Brewing Your Own Ale

[gnat23]

Kegging is nice in that you only have to clean/sanitize one, er, "bottle".

You can also force carbonate if you don't want to wait the two weeks for the sugar-priming. Beer faster!

We went from endless bottles to two kegs and a single CO2 source in a chest freezer with a temperature loop controller. Bit of a cash outlay to set up, but if you're going to stick with the beer as a hobby, it's sooo worth it.

-- gnat! (got upgraded to a 10gal full boil system for christmas!)

[malkin]

I nagged Brewer for a couple years to get him to keg rather than bottle. Once he went for it, it was a breeze. The only change I noticed was not fussing with bottles all over the place all the time. Finally we sold cases and cases of bottles and the capper.

I got him a nice ceramic tower with 3 taps that sits on top of a modified chest freezer too.

[bluebug32]

Kegging is nice in that you only have to clean/sanitize one, er, "bottle".

You can also force carbonate if you don't want to wait the two weeks for the sugar-priming. Beer faster!

We went from endless bottles to two kegs and a single CO2 source in a chest freezer with a temperature loop controller. Bit of a cash outlay to set up, but if you're going to stick with the beer as a hobby, it's sooo worth it.

-- gnat! (got upgraded to a 10gal full boil system for christmas!)

That sounds pretty enticing. Thanks for sharing, Gnat.