Part bottle & Part Barrel

[simon04]

Hello... I've just started brewing, and I've got a Muntons Stout kit bubbling nicely.....

I want to barrel part of the product, and bottle some too..

The kit asks me to siphon into barrel or bottle with sugar, then settle...

Am I best to;

a) Barrel 100%, with sugar, settle the 14 days, then bottle a few afterwards?
b) Siphon part of the 23Litre bin into the barrel (leaving a gap), and siphon the rest into bottles?
c) other??

Do I also gas the barrel, after settling?

Thanks for your assistance,
Simon.

 

[RobWalker]

number 2. opening the keg as in number 1 will reduce the pressure.

i would suggest gassing the keg straight away, opening the lid, retightening and gassing again. that'll remove the oxygen so it can't go off :thumb:

 

[simon04]

number 2. opening the keg as in number 1 will reduce the pressure.

i would suggest gassing the keg straight away, opening the lid, retightening and gassing again. that'll remove the oxygen so it can't go off :thumb:

Thanks for the input...

So, could I siphon all in to the barrel, pour off as many bottles as i need immediately.

Then I would have to open the lid to add sugar to barrel and re-gas?

Have i got that right?

 

[LeithR]

I would go with what you have described exactly in plan 2 with one slight change. If you have a bottling FV, one with a tap, siphon from the FV into the bottling bucket/FV with your bulk priming sugar (about 100G - this will cover bot the beer in the PB and the beer in the bottles) then fill your bottles as you want to once thats complete then fill your PB and do as Rob suggests about gassing it then releasing the gas a little to get rid of the air.

Job done!

 

[simon04]

Thanks for your help. That should get me nicely on my way...

The fermenting bin does not have a tap, so I guess I will just have to siphon manually...

 

[bobsbeer]

If you are going straight from your FV to barrel and bottles, I would add the priming sugar to the barrel and syphon it all to there. Then fill your bottles from the barrel tap. Once you have filled your bottles close up the barrel. And let both condition as normal for a couple of weeks.

 

[simon04]

If you are going straight from your FV to barrel and bottles, I would add the priming sugar to the barrel and syphon it all to there. Then fill your bottles from the barrel tap. Once you have filled your bottles close up the barrel. And let both condition as normal for a couple of weeks.

Simple :-) Just how I want...

 

[LeithR]

I'd recommend that you get organized with a bottling bucket. I find this makes the job of filling bottles so much easier and less messy which pleases the OH.

Easy enough to do yourself.Standard FV with a standard plastic tap fitted into a - I think its a 22/24mm hole.

 

[captain wassname]

Buy a little bottler The bit that goes into the supplied tap is the same od as the tap on a budget keg so you just need a small length of tube that fits over the keg tap and they can be joined then fill your bottles as bb said with no mess.

Jim