Do I need to condition beer before kegging?

[Wolverine]

Hi guys just wondering if I need to prime my beer in a secondary fermenter for a while before kegging in cornys? i'd rather not keg cloudy beer bacause I would like to be able to move the kegs and not disturb the sediment.
Is it normal to use finnings in a secondary fermenter then rack into my corny ?
Thanks
ben

 

[SamWise72]

You'd reduce sediment that way, but if you're priming the keg, you'll still create some more through that. Of course, in a cornie, you could force carbonate.

 

[snail59]

If your useing Corni Kegs then the idea is not to prime but force carbonate in the keg useing a CO2 gas bottle & regulator this is also used to dispence the beer, unless you have a hand pull pump set up,

 

[Dunfie]

When I cornie I use finings (isinglas or gelatine) to clear the beer before I transfer into them. Then I force carb with a soda stream bottle via the S30 valve. In a perfect world I would get Snails setup but I haven't got around to it yet.

 

[Wolverine]

Thanks guys I think I'm going to use beer finings and clear in a fermenting bin then once clear transfer into the kegs ( that haven't arives yet !! Exiting times)
I wondered if not adding the priming sugar affects the alcohol content of the beer? I usually like my beers around 5% should I be compensating for this in the initial stage?
Thanks again for the replies
ben

 

[SamWise72]

It doesn't make enough difference to worry about, and if you're force-carbing, you don't need to prime anyway.

 

[abeyptfc]

I always give my beer 2 weeks in the fv then just transfer it straight to the corny,give it a blast at 30 psi to seal the lid then set to 10psi, give it a try after a week and see whats what.
it does clear in the corny given time.the first pint you pull has some sediment in it but then after its fine, if you don't mind drinking slightly coloured beer then just transfer it straight to corny instead of transferring to a new fv. I don't see the point in transferring it to a new bucket with finings and leaving to 'condition', why not just transfer it to the corny with finings and it will condition and carbonate at the same time.shimples

 

[marco491]

Read this thread with interest as I am in the same situation: have an Admiral's Reserve in the FV but a couple of cornies chomping at the bit. An extra week in the FV and not dumping loads of refined sugar in my ale sounds attractive on the face of it.

So do you really not need to add sugar and do the secondary thing?
For a relative novice it seems like a big step to miss out. It's in the "official instructions" after all, and I still get nervous departing from the script

I thought the sugar was to get the alcohol up: was I wrong and it is only to generate secondary CO2?

Ancillary question, do you really use finings? I have heard mixed things about these. Is gelatine a better option?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Wolverine]

what I have done as an experiment is bought a 11 liter corny from Norman the corny king and tranfered ll liters into a fv and added some finings to clear then I'm gonna keg it I bottled the rest so if it goes wrong I've not wasted my brew