timbowden
Regular.
HI Folks,
been brewing for a while now and have a yearning to put my beer into casks rather than king kegs for party transporting and more of a real ale experience!! I prefer flatter beer like Adnams and find kegged beer a bit too carbonated!
I am contemplating buying some of the plastic pins from CypherCo but have a few questions!
1. Do you fill casks directly from the FV? if so do you then add finings?
2. Can finings be left in the cask (say two months) and then be reactivated?
3. Do you prime casks?
4. how easy is a cask breather to use and does it just put a layer of co2 above the beer without carbonating it therefore making it last longer?
5. do you have to drink the beer within a certain timescale due to pressure build up in the cask?
6. How full do you fill casks?
7. Is casking only best for rapid consumption of beer or can it be used as everyday drinking ( cask breather again i presume?)?
my plan is to have a few pins maturing and when needed transport to a party, set up and tap - leaving it to settle again for a few hours (hence the finings question).
Got 10 gallons of Big Kenny in the FV's and wanted to get a pin and king keg filled from it!
tim
tim
been brewing for a while now and have a yearning to put my beer into casks rather than king kegs for party transporting and more of a real ale experience!! I prefer flatter beer like Adnams and find kegged beer a bit too carbonated!
I am contemplating buying some of the plastic pins from CypherCo but have a few questions!
1. Do you fill casks directly from the FV? if so do you then add finings?
2. Can finings be left in the cask (say two months) and then be reactivated?
3. Do you prime casks?
4. how easy is a cask breather to use and does it just put a layer of co2 above the beer without carbonating it therefore making it last longer?
5. do you have to drink the beer within a certain timescale due to pressure build up in the cask?
6. How full do you fill casks?
7. Is casking only best for rapid consumption of beer or can it be used as everyday drinking ( cask breather again i presume?)?
my plan is to have a few pins maturing and when needed transport to a party, set up and tap - leaving it to settle again for a few hours (hence the finings question).
Got 10 gallons of Big Kenny in the FV's and wanted to get a pin and king keg filled from it!
tim
tim