Primary to keg, quick, What is the fastest you've gone Options

[passlaku]

From primary to serving keg?

[BrewBasser]

Two weeks.

1 week fermentation, 1 week cold crash, force carb.

BrewBasser

[Salsgebom]

I'd say about a week. S-04 finished up in 4 days. Cold crashed for a couple days and shook the keg for quick carbonation.

The beer had some diacetyl that may have been prevented with more time in primary. It tasted better after a couple more weeks. I'm much more patient with my beers now.

[Howie]

I'm about to do two beers in 7 days. We'll see what happens. Probably an English Mild and something along the lines of a Summer Bitter. I'm going to use 1968 for both, pitch plenty of yeast, and aerate well. If you do a 1.035 beer, 1968 will finish it in about two days. I want low gravity low alcohol beers for this application anyway.

BYO did an article about this last year - grain to glass in 7 days. You can Google "BYO Speed Brewing" and it will come up. Basic Brewing Radio has an episode about it as well.

If my brews don't come out, I'm just going to buy a couple of sixth barrels for the application.

This post has been edited by Howie: May 31 2008, 07:03 AM

[HanSolo]

I wish I could do it in a day but I always usually take 2 weeks. If I made it any faster I wouldn't have room to store all my kegs. (IMG:style_emoticons/brewboard/hehe.gif)

[bueller]

I've done it in 10 days before. The beer is pretty green, but esp with something like an American wheat, you can do it that fast.

[dagomike]

I've done sessions beers in about 4-5 days. Keg, chill, and carbonate. It seems though almost always a beer turns out better if it sits in the fermenter for another 5-7 days after finishing.

[seanhagerty]

I was in a hurry with an IPA, 8 days from brew day to drinking it. I have to say, this thing was best young too.

This post has been edited by seanhagerty: May 31 2008, 07:30 AM

[Howie]

It seems though almost always a beer turns out better if it sits in the fermenter for another 5-7 days after finishing.

Oh, absolutely. Unfortunately, I just thought I had more in the kegs than I currently do! I thought I had about three gallons of each beer in the kegerator, but it's more like a half gallon of one and maybe two gallons of the other. That won't work!

[TheOtherNate]

I had a Robust Porter in the keg at 4 days. I tasted it everyday, but it wasn't really worth drinking until another week. It kept getting better and better until the end (three more weeks later), so I suppose it depends on your definitions of drinkable and ready.

Nate

[Howie]

I had a Robust Porter in the keg at 4 days. I tasted it everyday, but it wasn't really worth drinking until another week. It kept getting better and better until the end (three more weeks later), so I suppose it depends on your definitions of drinkable and ready.

Nate

I'd say there's a huge difference in a robust porter and a mild. I wouldn't dream of trying to do that with a robust porter. I'd say that just about the only thing you can do in 7 days would be a hefe, an ordinary bitter, or a mild.

[TheOtherNate]

I'd say there's a huge difference in a robust porter and a mild. I wouldn't dream of trying to do that with a robust porter. I'd say that just about the only thing you can do in 7 days would be a hefe, an ordinary bitter, or a mild.

Oh, I'm not condoning this extreme behaviour... a classic case of "just because you can doesn't mean you should". (IMG:style_emoticons/brewboard/hehe.gif)

It really was a planned experiment and I wanted it to last out to the 8 week mark, but we had a party (PTA, of all things) at the 3 week point, and I only had one keg at the time... and well my friends wanted to 'participate', as well.

Nate

[lilp]

Two weeks.

1 week fermentation, 1 week cold crash, force carb.

BrewBasser

Novice here, what is cold crash? Putting it in the keg and sitting in the fridge?

Thanks

[Thirsty]

Novice here, what is cold crash? Putting it in the keg and sitting in the fridge?

Thanks

Putting your primary or secondary into cold fridge and letting the yeast drop out, then racking off to keg, giving a cleaner beer

[BeerPal]

I have never had beer in the fermenter for less than two weeks. I have ocassionally let a batch stay in for as long as a month, but that was due to laziness more than anything. My current IPA is done fermenting but I am going to try letting it stay in the conical for three weeks total and may make that my usual M.O. if I'm happy with the results.