Bottled : Well in 2 small Kegs : Chinook APA (BIAB+No-Chill)

Well fermentation has come to a halt for the Chinook APA, it's been steady now at 1018, a quite high Final Specific Gravity but the beer still comes in at 3.3% ABV. So a nice light Summer Ale, the sample from the trial jar when I took the SG reading was very nice, little sweet due to the remaining unfermented sugars but still VERY drinkable.

Due to it's lower ABV, I decided to put this beer into my recycled Old Speckled Hen mini kegs, of which I now have two. I didn't bother with the Dry Hopping as the beer was fine as it was.

After a good clean out with warm water, then StarSan, they both got primed with 11g of sugar before filling them up from the fermentor to about 2cms from the top.



Kept the priming sugar level low so I don't buckle the kegs, and after a couple of hours I vented a small amount of gas out of each keg to make sure I had just a Co2 blanket. I'll try and leave these to condition for 3 weeks before cracking into one of these kegs.

Both these little Kegs hold 10 pints and I managed to fill both right up.

So even with the mess up during brewing it still looks like I have a good 18-20 pints of beer ready for the Summer BBQ season.

The Party Keg

Well emptied the Old Speckled Hen keg last night. Removed the the top bung nice and easy, cleaned the inside out. Then gave it a nice new paint job.

It came out really well, and looks great now in the Brewshed. Just need to fill it with Beer.

Easy Keg, filled with Old Speckled Hen (5 litres)

Saw this in the Supermarket today, and my Good Lady said I could have one. She's good to me.

It sits lovely between the two pressure barrels, the good thing about this is once it is empty, I should in theory be able to fill it back up with my own beers just like the Easy Kegs you can find online, I know the empty ones are a lot cheaper, but hey this is full of one of my favorite beers which I have to drink all of before I fill it back up.