Kegging Your Home Brewed Beer
When you are a novice home brewer, you may find it challenging to get the beer into larger bottles during fermentation and then the smaller bottles for distribution and storage.
This is oftentimes a very messy way to get your beer into the bottles but it's also one of the most important steps in home brewing. Learning how to properly transfer your beer and bottling will come with time and experience.
After you learn how to properly bottle your beer, the next level is to learn how to keg your beer. However you should know that kegging is usually somewhat costly and requires a bit of effort so you need to go into the kegging process with an open mind.
Firstly, kegging your homebrew is a little expensive. It requires equipment such as CO2 storage tanks, Cornelius kegs, and maybe even a kegerator none of which are cheap. But usually before you get to this step, you have become a seasoned home brewer as this isn't usually recommended for novices. You'll also notice that the money you've saved on purchasing corporate beer may justify the costs of getting a professional kegging setup.
You also need to take into consideration the fact that kegging your beer takes up much more storage space. So if you are already limited on storage space, you may want to move to another area with more space. Not only do you need the kegging equipment, but you'll need more space in the refrigerator. You may opt to get a special refrigerator for beer called a kegerator that is only made for the purpose of chilling your homebrew. If you distribute your beer to friends and family, you may just want to invest in such a rig in order to deliver nice, cold beer.
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