Rack before kegging?

by DJ » Thursday Oct 04, 2007 8:40 am

Is it

a. Essential
b. Advisable
or
c. a waste of time

to rack before kegging??

I have never racked before because personally I dont see the point. But is this different before transferring my sweet sweet beer into a keg??

by **gregb** » Thursday Oct 04, 2007 8:51 am

A. - No.

B & C - Subject to personal experience and opinion.

I figure the transfer to the keg is racking, so I'm yet to bother with another transfer between the primary and keg.

Cheers,
Greg

by DJ » Thursday Oct 04, 2007 9:00 am

thanks greg, thats what I thought..

I just wish this fermenting caper wouldn't take so long :roll:

... I'm getting impatent! :twisted:

by **drsmurto** » Thursday Oct 04, 2007 10:06 am

I figure the big boys do all their fermenting etc in stainless steel so i am now off the opinion that the only plastic my beers needs to sit in is the fermenter. I reckon conditioning in the keg is better, plus the kegs fit better in the fridge. You can then transfer to another keg to get rid of any more trub and have a nice bright beer without the trouble of filtering.

Was going to buy some cubes for lagering etc in but think i will buy more kegs instead.

my 2 c
DrSMurto

by **rwh** » Thursday Oct 04, 2007 11:53 am

I rack as otherwise I find I get a bit too much sediment in the keg, and sometimes hop floaties. Up to you tho.

by **lethaldog** » Thursday Oct 04, 2007 4:12 pm

I rack

by **Kevnlis** » Thursday Oct 04, 2007 8:03 pm

I rack if I think the brew needs it. I judge by the recipe and amount of solids in the trub when it has been in primary for a week or so.

by **chris.** » Thursday Oct 04, 2007 8:11 pm

by **rwh** » Friday Oct 05, 2007 10:58 am

Er, right. So you do rack, but you do it in a keg and therefore have decided to call it something else, like "pressurised transfer of beer with CO2".

by **Kevnlis** » Friday Oct 05, 2007 11:25 am

Sounds like more work than it's worth....

by **chris.** » Friday Oct 05, 2007 12:20 pm

by **Kevnlis** » Friday Oct 05, 2007 12:58 pm

Must have missed the sign on my way in...

by **chris.** » Friday Oct 05, 2007 1:26 pm

by **drsmurto** » Friday Oct 05, 2007 2:51 pm

Bout time you 2 kissed and made up :shock:

by **muddy** » Friday Oct 05, 2007 3:43 pm

And with each thread full of you guys whinging and whining at each other - this forum loses another member to other more pleasant environments......

Personally I cant think of many things more rediculous than a couple of grown men arguing over some point within a brewing forum.

chillout

by **chris.** » Friday Oct 05, 2007 4:27 pm

by **Chris** » Friday Oct 05, 2007 4:39 pm

Great. Now we're just randomly insulting people. This was always a nice, laid-back forum until about the 13th Feb 2006...

by **chris.** » Friday Oct 05, 2007 4:45 pm

by **Kevnlis** » Friday Oct 05, 2007 5:13 pm

chris. wrote:
Chris wrote:Great. Now we're just randomly insulting people. This was always a nice, laid-back forum until about the 13th Feb 2006...

Slight over exageration don't ya think?

A bit... maybe. But I understand where he is coming from.

I think you purposefully antagonise people to prove points, rather than just posting a valid answer. Sure you are knowledgable, but does that give you the right to belittle everyone?

If that is how you want to spend your time that is great, but I think the majority of the people here are over it.

by **Chris** » Friday Oct 05, 2007 6:04 pm

Not that much of an exaggeration. We had heated discussion and disagreements on this forum, but it rarely, if ever degenerated into insults.

Nor was there ever much cause for people to be moderated.

At least you had the decency to remove the 'emoticon' in your previous post on this thread that called muddy 'stupid.'

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