I haven’t kegged a beer since we moved in to the new place, and somewhat shamefully, I haven’t cleaned the keg of Pale that I brewed for the move-in weekend. Yes, that means I’ve had an empty keg sitting in the fridge for nearly 5 months. In my defense, I’ve only just recently started brewing, and there hasn’t been room to store the empty shells, so the fridge seemed like an ideal spot.<\/p>\n
Sadly, because of the, uh, aging<\/em> that the previous ale had done in the last several months, cleaning the kegs was a bit of work. First a scrub with warm water, then a good 20 minutes of soaking with PBW followed by a sanitization with iodophor before kegging the beers.<\/p>\n The squash ale finished at 1.012 and tasted spicy, which my wife assures me is good (I brewed it for her). The IPA also finished at 1.012 and I didn’t rack it to secondary like I normally do, but it has been resting nicely on the sun room floor (covered, of course) and has a really great British IPA flavor. It’s milder, due to it’s lower OG (1.048), and should be ready to drink this weekend. The squash ale is for Thanksgiving, so hands off!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven’t kegged a beer since we moved in to the new place, and somewhat shamefully, I haven’t cleaned the keg of Pale that I brewed for the move-in weekend. Yes, that means I’ve had an empty keg sitting in the fridge for nearly 5 months. In my defense, I’ve only just recently started brewing, … Continue reading Kegging and Cleaning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homebrew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}