I've been bottling thus far and I'm about 2/3rds the way through my most recent hoppy pale ale and I've picked up a serious change in taste with pretty much all the hop character having gone away (the recent hot weather in CT likely hasn't helped - this last third was stored at "room temp" for about 4 weeks now)... I'm mostly drawn to the heavily hopped beers, so I've been doing what I can to minimize oxygen exposure with my current setup, but it's never going to be perfect for hop forward beers I imagine.
I've steered away from kegging thus far as I like being able to give beers to mates and I generally drink very little during the week, so it's a couple of brews of the weekend. So a fully fledged kegging setup seemed overkill to me unless you brewed/consumed "a lot". I'm now reconsidering as I've effectively got a third of a batch that's lost most of it's appeal.
If I were to transition to kegging that should solve the oxidation/storage? So I've been thinking about using my ferm fridge to also chill/serve a keg... If I were to get a very simple 1 keg setup, then the main downside seem to be the downtime between an empty keg and fermenting the next batch (though bottling a few brews from the keg may bridge this gap to some extent)?
Has anyone else done this with a single fridge? Would appreciate any advice. Don't think I can justify *another* fridge together with kegging kit...
I've steered away from kegging thus far as I like being able to give beers to mates and I generally drink very little during the week, so it's a couple of brews of the weekend. So a fully fledged kegging setup seemed overkill to me unless you brewed/consumed "a lot". I'm now reconsidering as I've effectively got a third of a batch that's lost most of it's appeal.
If I were to transition to kegging that should solve the oxidation/storage? So I've been thinking about using my ferm fridge to also chill/serve a keg... If I were to get a very simple 1 keg setup, then the main downside seem to be the downtime between an empty keg and fermenting the next batch (though bottling a few brews from the keg may bridge this gap to some extent)?
Has anyone else done this with a single fridge? Would appreciate any advice. Don't think I can justify *another* fridge together with kegging kit...
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