Bottling v/s Kegging

Bottling and Kegging both are convenient ways to store your HomeBrew. Choosing between Bottling v/s Kegging is totally up to you. A Brewer, everyone has a different brewing style or desire. Whether you chose Kegging or Bottling method to store your Beer, the main purpose is a good beer taste and long-lasting storage.

Bottling

Bottling is a good option to store your Brew. The process is to fill bottles directly from the Fermentor by siphoning. Bottling is the most important and starting part of beginner brewers’ first brew batch.

Bottling has various pros and cons, let’s discuss-

Benefits:

• Easy process: Bottling is an easy process just directly siphon beer into the Bottle after fermenting. If you have a Fermenter with an inbuilt tap it will be easier to fill bottles directly from the fermentor by attaching bottle filler with a tap. Fill your bottles in less time.
• Consume less space: Bottles we can place in small areas if we have a space shortage. It can be placed in a Bottle case or on the bottle drying tree when empty.
• Portable: Bottles are portable. Less weight and small size make bottles portable. Sharing your brew with your friends and relatives is easy with bottles. Also can be carried easily to outside home for an outdoor party or picnic.
• Cheap: Bottles are a cheap option to store your homebrew. Yes, you can reuse your bottles again and again and also can use commercial wine or Beer bottles to fill your homebrew. Just need to wash properly and sanitize with good-quality sanitizer before filling.

Drawbacks:

• Carbonation: Bottles need time to make your beer fizzy. Need to close the Beer Bottles tightly using a bottle capper as the CO2 will escape quickly or you can use flip-top bottles. You need to wait to complete the fermenting while the yeast gulps the priming sugar. It makes natural carbonation. Maybe your one beer bottle will be so fizzy or one can be flat.
• Time-Consuming in a Big Batch:  If you brew a big batch it will be difficult for you to wash all the bottles, sanitize and dry them. After that fill bottles, one by one, and caps it. It’s a job that might not be easy for a single person in a big batch.
• Glass Bottles need care: Glass bottles need to handle with care, they will crack or break immediately with a single hit.

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Kegging

Store your beer in kegs is a smarter choice than bottling because rather than filling all the bottles one by one, you put a big batch of beer in a keg just in a single take. Keg you can consider a big bottle.

Now let’s discuss the pros and cons of kegging-

Benefits:

• Much Easier: Kegging is much easier than bottling. Siphon your entire brew batch into the keg. Forget the headache of sanitizing and capping bottles one by one.
• Good Impression: Pouring beer from a keg looks good and you can invite your friends at

  

  home and serve them a glass of beer by pouring it from your kegging system, just think about it, It will definitely look cool. You can use a Mini keg starter kit for a start.

• Easy to handle: Kegs are easy to handle as they are made with metal and are eco-friendly, Reusable, and durable.

Drawbacks:

• Cost: Kegging is more costly than bottling. You need more kegging Equipment for kegging. But It’s a one-time investment for long time use, if you are tired of bottling you definitely have to go with kegging.
• Need More Space: Kegging needs more space than bottling. Bottles we can place in small cases but kegs need space in our brewing kitchen.

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Hence, Bottling v/s Kegging is an age-old question for years, whether it’s bottling or Kegging, our main motive is brewing a delicious beer at home and enjoying it. Just follow all the major processes of brewing and make your own beer at home. 

Happy Brewing!