Filling Your Cornies

[puravida]

Got a beer in the FV at the moment - it was brewed last sunday so it's a week in so far.
I'm hoping to get a couple of cornies this week and wondered what process for filling with bright beer you guys follow? I figure you really don't want any yeast or other bits and pieces going into the keg really as the pipe pulls the beer from the very bottom unlike my plastic kegs which have a inch or two space at the bottom for sediment to collect.

I was thinking of just leaving it in the primary, adding finings to the primary and racking straight into the corny next weekend via a racking bucket.

Or am I better to shift to a secondary and addings finings there for a few days before I rack to the keg?

Thanks!!!

It's an american pale ale by the way, if that makes any difference.

 

[Hawks]

I rack straight to corny from primary, I sometimes fine first in the primary if it needs some help clearing. There is no issue if the beer is not totally bright, the yeast will drop and the first pint will be a bit cloudy, after that you are good to go :thumb:

 

[Runwell-Steve]

I think it depends slightly on the yeast.

If I am using a yeast that flocculates well then I will often just transfer it straight into the corny from the fermenter with no special treatment.

If I am using something like US-05 I crash cool the beer in the fermenter down to about 2 degrees for a couple of days to try and get everything to drop out before transferring.

I have never used finings so wouldn't really know about them.

Crash cooling prior to transferring has other benefits too if you use Starsan to sanitise your cornies.

Starsan produces lots of foam, the effect of this when filling cornies is you cannot see the level of the beer in the corny due to the amount of foam being pushed out. If you have cooled your beer very cold then you can see the level of the beer by the condensation that forms on the outside of the keg, to the same level as the beer inside.