Sunday, May 18, 2008

Kegged today

I used the video I posted a few days ago as my instructions for kegging the beer. Here's what I did prior to kegging.

  1. Picked up a 7/8" in open-ended wrench at Menards so I could get my corny keg's valves off. I had to have 2 beers to muscle these things off. Whew!
  2. Watched the video about 5 times and confered with my notes.
  3. Sanitized everything that I needed - hoses, valves, gaskets, etc.
  4. Replace all of the gaskets I missed from when I cleaned the keg.
  5. Fill the keg with 5 gallons of water and put in iodine sanitizer for 10 minutes.
  6. Invert filled keg into 1 gallon of sanitization fluid in my Ale Pail and let sit for 10 minutes (this got the top of the keg and the attachments.
  7. Empty and put keg back together.
  8. Siphon beer into keg.
  9. Pressurize and test for leaks.
  10. No leaks.
  11. Done

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