Ask any Homebrewer what their favorite thing about homebrewing is and they will always pause and answer, everything! Oh but bottling takes forever. Yet another question people always ask me is, "so do you buy beer anymore?" Well I do, I like to support breweries that I think are doing a good job and also I like draught beer. There is something like beer on tap that is just great! The best way for the homebrewer to bottle and dispense beer is with a keg. Homebrewers unlike commercial breweries put their beer into soda kegs known as cornelius kegs.
The first beer that I put into this amazing dispenser was the innkeeper. The triangle brew crew got together and we tried it out with amazing results! The bubbles were very different and due to my lack of refrigeration the beer was very low in carbonation in keeping with the English style. We just threw the keg on ice and dispensed via the "Frat Faucet" ...... Delicious.
The keg was awesome. Great carbonation, so smooth and creamy. I love that you can experiment rather easily with different levels of CO2. And how awesome is it to walk up to the tap and pour yourself a beer?! Can't wait to get my own...
ReplyDeleteI second the comment by JWC. The beer had a totally different mouthfeel than when priming sugar is used and the beer is bottle carbonated. The smoothness of the beer off the keg was awesome! I can't wait to get one and put a stout in it, although I might just move it from my kitchen to the sofa and put it right up to my mouth... ;-)
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