Ageing Beer

[swinkels]

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i have brewed my first keg it was a corona tastes a bit bitter and is like the home brew i have made in the past.the bubbles are large and not that nice. if i used to age my bottles for three months then why would i not age my kegs the same, i have read that larger quantities mature quicker.yhe brew is three weeks old makes me fart like a trooper. and tastes a bit sour and i have to drink 50 litres of it.my best bottle brew was a munich larger with 1kg of malt and 2x packets of alpha hops. i dont wont to get to technical just yet as i am new. but would appreiciate any input.
dont you just love the beer truck.

 

[Trent]

Gday Swinkels
Sorry to hear that the corona imitation makes ya fart like a trooper, and even sorrier that there is 50L of it to go down. Ya may have to take to wearing a gas mask! Did you add hops to the kit? Cause bitter isnt a word I would use to describe Corona, and it also sounds a little odd that it tastes sour. I could be wrong, but saying that it is a bit bitter, sour and makes you fart like a trooper says to me that you may have an infection of some sort. I havent ever tried the corona kits, but I am pretty sure that they shouldnt be sour. How was your sanitation? Anyway, as far as aging in the keg, I am sure that it would age quite well, especially if you keep it cold, it is just like cold conditioning. What temp did you ferment at? If you fermented it too high, maybe you could get some funny flavours. With a lager, try and ferment as cold as you can get it, 10-12C is perfect, then you probably want to cold condition it for a little while aswell, but after primary is over, let it warm up for a day or 2 for a diacetyl rest. If you dont know any of these terms, do a search on the site, it will yield BUNDLES of helpful information, and go to the home page and go through all the different "areas" that you can post in. Anything that is "airlocked" is full of valuable information, and really must be read. Welcome to the site, and you will be making great beer in no time (ie beer that doesnt taste like hombrew)
All the best
Trent
PS I want one of them beer trucks!

 

[tangent]

we need that for the ADL pubcrawl!