Splitting a Brew - advice please

[aamcle]

I've just bottled a full batch 23l of Festival Landlord, I don't mind it OK its tedious but that's the worst of it, but I'd like to split batches half in bottles and half in ??? Including Lager.

I am going to have serious storage problems if I stick to all bottles so I've been looking at barrels, iBrew and so on, but I'm not able find a solution I'm happy with.
Cornies are out of my price range, barrels and 5l mini kegs apparently don't do well with Lager, IBrew is a handy dispenser but the beer/lager apparently has to codition with the tap assembly fitted......... No ideal solutions that I know of.

I know I can use a few 3l Coke bottles but I don't want to drink 3l at a go so I'm appealing to the collective wisdom of the forum, what is the best solution to my dilemma?

Thanks. Aamcle

 

[wilsoa1111]

good research, but unforunately thats many peoples problem, there is no ideal solution-
i believe there was a system using 5l pop bottles that u could add co2 to like a small but tough pressure barrel, but this was a bit overpriced and went through alot of c02 comparatively, cant find a link atm but probs still out there
my advice,stick to ales, put it in a barrel and once it runs out of c02 reprime with new yeast and bottle, job done

 

[aamcle]

The 5l pop bottle thing could be a Tap-a-Draft a similar system to the other one but from the U S.
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/tap-a-dr ... r-kit.html

It looks better than the IBrew.


Atb. Aamcle

 

[lambert]

Hi aamcle,
I also bottle some of my batches and "keg" the rest in 5l Mini barrels. I've never kegged a lager in a mini barrel but I don't see why the kegs won't work with a lager - commercial breweries use them to for their premium lagers (latter two words used very loosely). CO2 consumption is costly with the mini kegs - relative to CO2 use for corny kegs but there are alternatives to the CO2 bulbs.

I think the only other option would be the small cornys but they are bloody expensive!

 

[aamcle]

I've phoned and asked about the iBrew and apparently you can condition and even carbonate in the bottles then gently remove the cap and replace it with the tap/injector assembly.

Unfortunately they are hard to get hold of, they will apparently work with Lagers as well as Ale :-) I want one:-)


Aamcle

 

[RobWalker]

1L bottles from morrisons? 3 for a pound with pop in them I think. 23L will cost you about £7 and you can reuse them, drink 1L at a time and carb all you want.