Mr BR
Regular.
Hi all was wondering if the more knowledgeable here could tell me the first time brewer of lager if i can bottle from a pressure barrel not a keg once secondery fermantation has taken place if i can how do i do it :wha: thanks
pressure barrel to bottle ?
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RobWalker
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A bottling wand will do it - not sure what we call them over here.
Just don't do it out of the tap on your barrel without one of these, otherwise you'll oxidize your beer.
If you're carbonating with sugar, you want to start with your flat beer, mix in the priming sugar, and bottle before it ferments to carbonate - it needs to be done in the bottle, without a decent bit of kit behind you anyway...
Just don't do it out of the tap on your barrel without one of these, otherwise you'll oxidize your beer.
If you're carbonating with sugar, you want to start with your flat beer, mix in the priming sugar, and bottle before it ferments to carbonate - it needs to be done in the bottle, without a decent bit of kit behind you anyway...
Runwell-Steve
Landlord.
You need the secondary fermentation to take place in the bottle. This is what makes it fizzy.
It is very difficult to transfer fizzy liquid from a barrel/keg into a bottle, then cap it and maintain the fizziness.
Realistically you won't be able to make your lager fizzy in a pressure barrel anyway as they don't hold enough pressure.
If you really do want to bottle carbonated beer you would need to keg the beer in a metal keg, carbonate it in the keg, then bottle using something like a Blichmann Beer Gun, or a Counter Pressure bottle filler.
It is very difficult to transfer fizzy liquid from a barrel/keg into a bottle, then cap it and maintain the fizziness.
Realistically you won't be able to make your lager fizzy in a pressure barrel anyway as they don't hold enough pressure.
If you really do want to bottle carbonated beer you would need to keg the beer in a metal keg, carbonate it in the keg, then bottle using something like a Blichmann Beer Gun, or a Counter Pressure bottle filler.
RobWalker
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Runwell-Steve said:
just to clarify :p
shocker
Landlord.
It depends if we are talking true secondary , carbonating , fermentation or resting the wort in a secondary vessel without priming it . If that latter was the case a barrel can be used as a secondary FV . Confusing double usage of words and terminology !
Mr BR
Regular.
just to clear it up i was wondering if i can carbonate in the pressure barrel and when i want some lager put it into a bottle for ease of cooling in the fridge as i dont have a dedicated fridge for a pressure barrel yet thanks to the above for all the responses 
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