Kit Question, After bottling

[waynevilla]

I only do kits and after around 7-10 days the mix goes in a bottle. The guides usually say to keep in the warm for 2 days and then go to a cold place for 2 weeks ish.

Could that cold place be a fridge? I have a magners husky fridge where I normally keep my beers but I normally wait until the 2 weeks in the bottle have passed before chilling in the fridge.

Will chilling in the fridge after 2 days in the bottle make it better, drinkable quicker etc???

 

[Slid]

I only do kits and after around 7-10 days the mix goes in a bottle. The guides usually say to keep in the warm for 2 days and then go to a cold place for 2 weeks ish.

Could that cold place be a fridge? I have a magners husky fridge where I normally keep my beers but I normally wait until the 2 weeks in the bottle have passed before chilling in the fridge.

Will chilling in the fridge after 2 days in the bottle make it better, drinkable quicker etc???

Hi Wayne,

Your kit brews will be improved by:

Leaving the brew in the FV for up to 2 whole weeks,
Bottling and leving for at least one week, or preferably 2.
Moving it somewhere cold for as long as you can wait. 2 weeks is in reality an advertisment to make you buy the kit - 6 weeks will make it a pretty good beer.
Then think about the fridge.

So, going back to your question:

No - the chemical reactions that mature beer will NOT take place in the fridge. The fridge is where you put the beer to chill it to temperature that modern (not really homebrewed) beer is drunk.