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[DubbelEntendre]

I've started kegging my beer, but I need to bottle a batch for an event that I cannot transport kegs to. I just recently started cold crashing my beer for clarity purposes. Since I view homebrew as a work of art, I want people to enjoy the look, as well as the taste of my beer. If I rack to secondary and cold crash for a week to get more of whatever is in suspension to fall out, will this have any effect on the bottle conditioning time?edit: spelling

Edited by DubbelEntendre, 02 June 2009 - 01:46 PM.

[ncbeerbrewer]

You will be fine for only cold crashing for a week. There is so much yeast left in your beer you will be fine even though you can't see it. If you cold crash a lager for a month or more and then bottle that could bring on problems and then you pitch some yeast when you bottle. In your case that does not apply. I would just cold crash the beer for a week then bottle it up. Why dont you carbonate it in the keg and fill the bottles from there. I have a counter filler but many here use the bottle wand shoved into a picnic tap to bottle kegged beer as well. I think you will be fine though doing it the way you said and asked about.PS: Just make sure if you bottle the beer to carbonate dont hold it cold make sure its like 70 degrees for a fe weeks to a month so that the yeast can eat up the bottling sugar.