Secondary fermentation in a Corny keg

[Just_one]

I just read this on another site.

You will have some sediment in the bottom of your keg if you secondary in it... also, youd have to really put the pressure to the beer to carbonate it much at all at fermentation temps. What would be the purpose of carbonating it in the keg while it is being secondaried? I have also read that fermenting under pressure will inhibit fermentation, not to mention if you are driving CO2 into solution, there will probably not be much inthe way of O2 left for the yeast to even be active. Again, what are you trying to gain?

If you want to secondary in the keg, to save a transfer, and sediment doesnt bother you, go ahead and do it. Pull the pressure relief valve once a day to relieve the pressure in the keg. When you are ready to carb, chill the keg, turn the PSI to 30psi for 24 hours, then dial it down to your serving pressure and bleed off the extra pressure. It will be fully carbed in 24 hours."

I thought that after the first fermentation down to approx 1010 you bottle it and at the same time add priming sugar = real ale with secondary fermentation in the bottle ie natuarlly conditioned. So is it not the same that you do with a corny keg, just that now it is a 5 gallon bottle?

Further more on reading more, i discovered a bubble (airlock) fitted to the corny keg using one of the snap on connectors a bit of pipe linking to the bubbler. Then in this case you would need to force carbonate, so no natural conditioning , might aswell drink Lager :shock:

am i missing something here because i am not been brewing long, but it sounds like someones missed the point of real ale?

 

[adomant]

The thing is that it is a keg rather than a cask. Kegs are for dispensing carbonated brews which are bright (clear).

You can secondary in a keg, but the beer is dispensed though the sediment rather than away from it like a cask. It is possible to use a corny as a cask by fixing it at an angle and fixing a tap to the gas inlet with a spile/air inlet at the out disconnect but for real ale that is carbonated at 1psi a cask is better (or plastic keg) unless you are racking off bright ale to a keg for dispense.

The advantage of a keg under beer gas is that the beer will keep for a long time as opposed to the 3 days dispensed from a cask.

I often secondary in a cask then rack bright to a corny so I can drink it over a couple of weeks.

The theory that a keg is a giant bottle doesn't really work since you drink a bottle in one go leaving the sediment behind rather than having to pour away a few pints of cloudy beer to dink the rest in time

 

[Just_one]

Thanks for that, i think iam starting get abetter understanding. maybe in future i should re-think my methods? what is thought best, i only have 2 corny kegs and 2 fermenting buckets. ? need think on this abit more