Corny kegs?
Post #1 made 10 years ago
Been reading about cornies etc. And just wondered how long beer will last in one? I'm only a 6 pint a week lad lol.
Post #2 made 10 years ago
That's the problem, lol, only holds 40 pints.
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Post #3 made 10 years ago
I've been drinking beer from some of mine about 3 months after and its been OK. If I do a hoppy pale ale though the aroma diminishes over time but I'm guessing the same would happen if I bottled it ?
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Post #4 made 10 years ago
Cornies are great, and your friends will help you empty them.
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Post #5 made 10 years ago
IMO a stored beer can be ruined by infection & oxygenation. Neither can be fully 100% eradicated though, so the time it can be stored will depend on the levels of these factors.
The environment it is stored in will affect the rate of change too, so colder equals slower rate.
Having said that, I have had nice beer that I bottled nearly 2 years on, and I cant imagine it would be different in a corny. If it is kept cold, and has a head pressure of C02 it should last you long enough to finish it. As Dom said though, if it is a hop forward style, these flavours will change too, so it may not be the same beer near the end.
The environment it is stored in will affect the rate of change too, so colder equals slower rate.
Having said that, I have had nice beer that I bottled nearly 2 years on, and I cant imagine it would be different in a corny. If it is kept cold, and has a head pressure of C02 it should last you long enough to finish it. As Dom said though, if it is a hop forward style, these flavours will change too, so it may not be the same beer near the end.
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Post #7 made 10 years ago
Great question Hoover and welcome to the forum 
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I'm not sure how to answer it as, I think it depends. I'll have a crack though
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Okay, something that is hop-driven, like an APA, I think you would be best to knock over earlier rather than later, preferably within a few months. A lager/pilsner, if your hygiene is good, you should have no probs up to a year, at least. It will change during that time but normally for the better. Non-hop driven ales or hybrids, I'd be happy drinking up to a year. They also will change a tad (or a lot).
What I'm trying to say above is that if you put the beer into the keg well, it takes a very long time to go off. That's my main point.
My second point is that change does occur. I remember putting a beer into a show one year, some APA I think. It got a bronze or silver (that means nothing btw) but I still had the same beer in a keg a year later and it tasted nothing like an APA so I entered it as a Kolsch or something, just to get tickets to the tasting! I do remember, though, that when I made myself forget the beer was originally an APA, and just tasted it for what it was, I really liked it.
So, bear the above in mind before the next story...
A few years ago, I travelled, in the height of summer, from on side of Australia to the other in a van. I stopped in a few places for several weeks leaving several kegs, baking in my van at over 50C/122F. A few months later I arrived in Perth. I chilled the kegs and tasted the lager first thinking that would be buggered for sure. It was actually great
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I then tasted an English ale, and, to this day, I'll never understand why, but I just drank it without even sniffing it. Why did I do that? Confidence from the lager? Anyway. I nearly died
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That whole experience still annoys me as I don't know why one beer survived/improved while the other became toxic. In hindsight, I'd bet, for sure, that the ale keg had a slow leak in it.
I'm also tempted to brew a double-batch lager, keg them both and leave one keg in the fridge and one in high heat for a few months as I really did enjoy that lager!.
Is that info confusing enough for you Hoover?
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,I'm not sure how to answer it as, I think it depends. I'll have a crack though
.Okay, something that is hop-driven, like an APA, I think you would be best to knock over earlier rather than later, preferably within a few months. A lager/pilsner, if your hygiene is good, you should have no probs up to a year, at least. It will change during that time but normally for the better. Non-hop driven ales or hybrids, I'd be happy drinking up to a year. They also will change a tad (or a lot).
What I'm trying to say above is that if you put the beer into the keg well, it takes a very long time to go off. That's my main point.
My second point is that change does occur. I remember putting a beer into a show one year, some APA I think. It got a bronze or silver (that means nothing btw) but I still had the same beer in a keg a year later and it tasted nothing like an APA so I entered it as a Kolsch or something, just to get tickets to the tasting! I do remember, though, that when I made myself forget the beer was originally an APA, and just tasted it for what it was, I really liked it.
So, bear the above in mind before the next story...
A few years ago, I travelled, in the height of summer, from on side of Australia to the other in a van. I stopped in a few places for several weeks leaving several kegs, baking in my van at over 50C/122F. A few months later I arrived in Perth. I chilled the kegs and tasted the lager first thinking that would be buggered for sure. It was actually great
.I then tasted an English ale, and, to this day, I'll never understand why, but I just drank it without even sniffing it. Why did I do that? Confidence from the lager? Anyway. I nearly died
.That whole experience still annoys me as I don't know why one beer survived/improved while the other became toxic. In hindsight, I'd bet, for sure, that the ale keg had a slow leak in it.
I'm also tempted to brew a double-batch lager, keg them both and leave one keg in the fridge and one in high heat for a few months as I really did enjoy that lager!.
Is that info confusing enough for you Hoover?
PP
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Corny kegs?
Post #8 made 10 years ago
It depends a lot on the yeast as well. Most beers I've made with wyeast 1084 Irish ale have really come good after about 3 months in the keg.
You can also get 9L kegs so they might be good for beers you want to drink fresh while beers that will age better can go in 19l kegs.
You can also get 9L kegs so they might be good for beers you want to drink fresh while beers that will age better can go in 19l kegs.
