Straight to bottles or keg first?

[Graeme]

Hi,

I am currently waiting for my first brew to finish fermenting (Woodforde's Admiral's Reserve).

I would like to condition it in bottles. I also have a plastic 40 pint keg with a tap at the bottom.

My question is, should I add priming sugar to the bottles and syphon the beer straight into them from my FV or should I syphon the beer into my keg, stir in sugar and then bottle using the tap?

Obviously the keg method will require additional work (due to sanitising the keg), but will it produce a better result?

Many thanks,

Graeme

 

[Wez]

You can either:

Bottle/Keg direct from the FV and prime each bottle/keg.
Transfer to another sanitised FV and bulk prime in there and then transfer to Bottle/Keg

I don't like bottling from the keg personally, unless you are using a corny?

 

[Graeme]

Thanks for the reply.

I've put it in a keg now.

I went to the LHBS to buy bottles and accidentally spent all my money on AG kit. oops! :shock:

 

[Wez]

I went to the LHBS to buy bottles and accidentally spent all my money on AG kit. oops! :shock:

Whoops! :grin: