Home Brewing 101: BOTTLING VS. KEGGING 

Great video sir. One thing regarding C02 bottles was when you refill your bottle, some places will swap bottles. Don’t buy a new c02 bottle because you’ll use it once and never see it again

I stick to bottle conditioning because for me homebrewing is very social and i bring a few bottles of my beer with me when visiting friends

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What a nice video man I did almost 200 beers bottles and now I’m ready for going to Keg, although the inversion would be bigger

Shoutout Received! And yes, i recently put the wrong posts on and it was a nightmare to get off. Turns out plastic hates being on metal #lol! Great video per usual!

So informative! Great video!

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I'm just getting started as a home brewer but one thing I learned very quickly is that bottling beer is a royal pain the tuchus for batches that are 3 gallons or larger. I also learned that getting the carbonation right is easier and more consistent in a keg than it is on per bottle basis with priming sugar. It shouldn't matter but it in my limited experience it does. I will only bottle when the batch size is 2 gallons. Anything over that will go into a mini keg or Corny keg.

Great video Mr !

awesome... I'm somewhere in between.. where for each batch I'm doing some bottles and kegging as well. I like to hand out bottles, while also having some left at home for me to enjoy....

I started with bottle conditioning, like most homebrewers. I soon moved on to kegging simply because having one vessel to clean and sanitise was easier than 40 bottles. I built a 2 keg keezer out of a chest freezer and picked up a couple extra kegs for things line aging imperial stouts. I've recently looked into moving back to bottle conditioning for 2 reasons. 1 for bottle shares, last year I joined a local homebrew group who meets up monthly to swap beers and bottles were easier than lugging a 19L corny keg with Co2 tank and tubing around. 2 previously I'll drink a batch of beer as I make it, which is fun, however I wanted to be able to save part of a batch to enjoy down the line. maybe for a style I don't want to drink continually for 40 pints or a stronger ABV% I want to give more time to develop. so while I'll still brew simpler beer or more hop forward beers to fill my lines I'll still reach for the bottles to save that batch of imperial stout or Munich lager to give it the time it deserves to develop properly.

Excellent video. Thank you.

Great info thank ya!

I started homebrewing because of the Belgians. And they bottle condition their ales. And those beers age well mainly because of their high ABV. And I love to bottle too, so it's not really a chore. Bottles have the advantage of being small. You can't give a keg to a friend...

Awesome video Trent 👌 Ed has been bottling a stout this week. I just made my first IPA from a kit which is fermenting in a small barrel. I need to add dextrose in a few days.....not sure how that’ll work out. I guess I can put it in bottles if it fails. I also considered using a Soda Stream machine 😂

Great vid as always! Unfortunately I don’t have space for a kegerator right now, so it’s just bottling for me.

You guys are awesome, I wish you guys cover how to use a non-pressurized mini keg with the Homecraft Black Stainless Steel Easy-Dispensing Tap Beer Cooling System Kegerator, a 5L system that also comes with a plastic keg, is it possible to show how to use Mr. Brew and carbonate with this system?

I'm pretty much a novice and have only done 12 batches so far (I've I've sitting in the fermenter right now). Still work 23-24 litres each, each batch is over 40 bottles so I'm probably close to 500 bottles. It's a pain in the ass. The thing holding me back is that I've no room for a dedicated fridge and i like cold beer. I'm going to have to come to with a solution. Maybe a Corny keg and mini keg combo but it's pricy. That way i can fill the mini keg off the main one and put the mini keg in the fridge...

I combine. Pressure fermentation on a 30 l keg. If it is to a party I close transfer to another keg and serve w a Lindr cooler and tap. Otherwise I bottle. I like to bring my beer out sailing and give away. Then bottles are best.

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To anyone watching this as their first foray into setting up a brewing kit at home: Spend the extra money on the floor capper. I have lost more liters of beer to escaping bottles when capping than I have to bad fermentations.

Very interesting. How about those mini "party kegs", are they worth trying ? I ask because I'm going "scale-up" a little from 5 liter batches to 25 liter batches in a couple of weeks since I'm considering purchasing the Brewmonk G40 Wifi.

What's the lowest practical pressure the keg can work at? I brew UK real ale and it needs to be about 4psi. Will that work? Great video.

A used fridge makes a great cheap kegerator. You make blocks of ice for cooling wort and your cooler, savng on buying it. Then you dispense your own beer from the fridge.

Thanks for the great video! I saw a pear chai cidar in the background. Is that your own recipe? If so, how did it come out and would you mind sharing?

Hey Trent, love your videos. Does this apply for home brewed seltzers as well? And would the bottling calculator work for those?

Can I add the corn sugar to the keg instead of force carbonization ?

I think there is some benefit to keg conditioning as well.

I've had it with bottling! No matter how prepared I am it always ends up a mess. Time for a keg of some sort, thinking a pressure barrel maybe.

Great video thanks. It will help me a lot. I may not be able to force carbonate under refrigeration. Is this a problem? Thanks in advance

Fill a pet-bottle (plastic) and when it’s hard the carbonation is achieved, easy way to know when it’s done.

Can you put beer/cider from a keg into bottles and store them? If so, will they keep the carbonation for a while?

A better way to prime is to boil 2 cups of water and dissolve the corn sugar into it then continue the boil for 5 minutes. Kill the heat, cover, and let it cool to room temperature. Add that priming solution to the bottling bucket then gently siphon the beer onto it. The reason for this is to sterilize the corn sugar and eliminate the chance of contamination. No reason to needlessly fumble the sanitization football on the 1 yard line.

I know this is probably a dumb question, but I've never kegged so here goes: Is it a bad idea to put a small batch (1 to 2.5 gal) in a 5 gal keg?

Is sugar needed if kegging. I have been brewing a few times and hated bottling so like you stated I’m now ready to keg my brew. What I’m confused about is adding or deleting the sugar for carbonation since the co2 is used to carbonate. Should I delete the sugar from my ingredients? Thanks for your help.

Hey Trent. If I put my 1 gallon, fermented batch into a 1 gallon, pressurized growler, could I also add priming sugar for a little additional fermentation while I wait for the CO2 to do its thing also? I assume yes and that I would just have to wait until that remaining yeast does its thing?

What is the typical time difference between "bottle conditioning" and carbonating in a keg?

Question. Once bottle conditioning has hit its 2 week mark, it's recommended to chill the goods. But can the bottles continue to be stored at room temp? Or is there a risk of overcarbination?

Without a kegerator - can I still proceed with kegging over bottling? Will leaving the CO2 running at a higher PSI for longer help make up for doing this at a cool room temperature?

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Does sediment is unavoidable when bottling?

Bottle conditioning should not be cool, but at least 70F. Furthermore, it takes 3 weeks or more if you want properly carbonated beer.

Jeezdidnt realize dextrose was corn sugar.so I guess its fullof glyphosate then?

Keg only for me ..

BAAHAHAHA - yeah those corny kegs at $75 were a BARGAIN compared to the current $91 each. Totally agree...bottling is the cheapest and usually the entry point to packaging your beer. Some kits even include bottling caps, but, kegging is KING. It takes literally 3-5 minutes to keg 5 gallons and, if you count the time to sanitize your bottles, add the bottling sugar, fill the bottles, cap the bottles and finally to bottle condition - that's a lot of time. Either way, you get delicious beer. Cheers!

Why did you talk about natural carbonation in a keg you can do that two

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