Kegging the Dogfish Head IPA

[saucychurch23]

assuming the brewer has all the hoses, glass jugs and all equipment used to make this beer, about what does it cost to make 1 Kegs worth of beer?

[anarchotron]

@saucychurch23 Not including yeast, about $30-40 for extract and about $20-30 for all grain. Higher gravity 'bigger' beers require more malt and hops, so those are the ones on the expensive end. Something crazy like a belgian quad would be more like $40-50. Yeast adds about $10.

[saucychurch23]

@anarchotron ahh, wonderful. thanks for the information!

[anarchotron]

@saucychurch23 You can save and re-use your yeast about 4 times though. Something like the DFA 60 is probably about $35 on average if you use all-grain and reuse your yeast, or about $50 if you use extract and a fresh yeast vial each time. Not bad for 40 pints of beer, either way.

[RaisingDaisies]

So how did the beer come out?

[anarchotron]

@RaisingDaisies It was amazingly good.

[rocknrollpriest]

Cool, you should purge the oxygen out of it though after turning the co2 on. Helps against oxidation. Cheers!

[anarchotron]

@rocknrollpriest Totally right, I've started doing that pretty religiously over the years.

[BangerBrewingCo]

Nice job man!!! How did it turn out? I just have one thing for you, after the 10 days of secondary, you should cold crash the beer for a minimum of 3 days at about 33 - 35 degrees F.. This will drop any remaining sediment to the bottom of the fermenter. Then keg and carb. The end result is very clear beer.

[anarchotron]

@BangerBrewingCo Yeah I like that idea. My kegerator is the only thing in which I could do that, but it would be totally worth it. I've tried filtering beer with plate filters, and the results are good, but it takes alot of time and hassle, so I've pretty much given up on filtering, and just counting on my fermenting process to get most of the solids out. I will certainly try cold-crashing it next.

[rockcrawler4x4]

How did the Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA turn out?

[anarchotron]

@rockcrawler4x4 Amazingly good... it actually tasted like the real thing!

[RGH1502]

I miss brewing, I moved to Germany and I live in an apartment now. Its kinda cramped and I havent brewed a batch in over 6 months. You should check out an autosiphon, its the best piece of kit I bought next to the immersion chiller. Great video!

[anarchotron]

@RGH1502 Yeah I live in an apartment now, myself, and I don't get to brew very often. It's actually fully doable in an apartment, but I'm sort of averse to making an bigger mess in here than I absolutely have to :)

[jenluvsblackcat]

So you didn't add priming sugar? Does dry hopping replace that step?

[anarchotron]

@jenluvsblackcat no, kegging replaces that step... you carbonate it via a cannister of pressurized co2, rather than bottle-fermentation

[slownoah423]

great videos. how's the finished product?

[iggster433]

nice video. can you hook me up with the recipe? have you tried to force carbonate? i force carbonate beers that dont have to age, and im able to drink them within an hour of kegging. im making an ipa and dry hopping with 2 ounces of citra hops. they use these in the sierra nevada torpedo beer from what i hear.

[anarchotron]

@iggster433 I usually keep the pressure on the keg at 20psi for about a week, and roll it occasionally, then drop to 12 psi and serve! The recipe is from this book by Sam Calagione himself, 'Extreme Brewing: An Enthusiast's Guide to Brewing Craft Beer at Home'.

[Imasofat]

Great video. I just made my first batch of beer and it's still fermenting. But I think it's going to be terrible. I made a lot of mistakes! I took a sample and it smelled and tasted cidery!

[derdudernan]

What kind of fridge are you using there as your kegerator? And if you wanted could you drill through the top to install some taps? Nice video, that IPA looks delicious!

[anarchotron]

That's just a small deep freeze. It has an external temperature regulator. You could put taps through the top, but then you would have issues opening the lid against the wall. My friend took his lid off, created a 6" sleeve with wood, attached the sleeve to the freezer, then attached the lid and hinges to the sleeve. Then his taps come out horizontally through the sleeve.

[rubikbrewer]

As a good rule of thumb it is usually best to siphon the idophor out of the keg via the pickup tube, so that it gets cleaned as well. With the procedure shown in the video, the inside of the pickup tube never gets cleaned at all. I force my iodophor out via CO2 pressure, then press the spring loaded valve open so that any that is trapped in the tube will fall out to the bottom of the keg (it gets stuck otherwise). Then the keg gets fully purged with CO2 before slowly moving the beer over to it.

[anarchotron]

Good point. When I 'clean' the keg with soap and water (and scrubbing), I use a hose fitting to force the water through the keg both ways, so i do have high pressure water in it during cleaning. I definitely need to do a better job getting the iodophor into the pickup tube tho. I'll try the co2 method.

[jonn8ball]

what does ipa mean?

[pdxjules]

India Pale Ale.

[muriloninja]

I wouls also be anxious to see the final product since you decided to utilize DME. I have always used LME for my DFH batches mainly due to cost.

[yambor44]

How about a short video of the finished product??? Also, where did you get your recipe from or was it a kit?

[AFireInside904]

So how did it turn out? I'm brewing my first IPA tomorrow. I love 60 minute, so I got the same hops, Simcoe, Warrior, and Amarillo.

[anarchotron]

Man it turned out awesome. Everything really clicked, I think it tastes even better than the 60 minute out of the bottle. Now that summer is here I'm having problems with my house being too hot for doing a good fermentation, but at the time I brewed this 60 minute the weather was perfect.