PacNorWest
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Howdy all,
I have searched here and elsewhere to an answer to the following with no luck, so here goes:
I recently acquired a 50L sanke. But before I am hung for stealing it myself, I will admit it was actually found in a neighbors council pickup heap, no idea where he got it... but I thought I could get a lot more use out of it then the tip. Anyway, since my brewery was already 3v it has been sitting in the shed until I came across these meaning i could (with tedious disassembling, cleaning and sanitising) potentially use this keg as a serving keg for big occasions, sounds good. However, I have neither a 60L fermenter nor a boil kettle big enough to manage all that wort.
So I had an idea and I wanted to float it with yall. Could I just put two ~25L batches through my equipment one after another trying to be as consistent as possible. Dropping each batch in a separate fermenter and fermenting at the same time, same yeast. Then when fermentation is over, mixing both of them into the keg and carbing up as per usual?
Note that this would really be going for volume of a recipe I have brewed over 10x instead of trying out something new. I am thinking I may have problems with differences in fermentation plus if one goes bad i would throw them both off. Buuuut, i still think it could be possible. what do you think?
I have searched here and elsewhere to an answer to the following with no luck, so here goes:
I recently acquired a 50L sanke. But before I am hung for stealing it myself, I will admit it was actually found in a neighbors council pickup heap, no idea where he got it... but I thought I could get a lot more use out of it then the tip. Anyway, since my brewery was already 3v it has been sitting in the shed until I came across these meaning i could (with tedious disassembling, cleaning and sanitising) potentially use this keg as a serving keg for big occasions, sounds good. However, I have neither a 60L fermenter nor a boil kettle big enough to manage all that wort.
So I had an idea and I wanted to float it with yall. Could I just put two ~25L batches through my equipment one after another trying to be as consistent as possible. Dropping each batch in a separate fermenter and fermenting at the same time, same yeast. Then when fermentation is over, mixing both of them into the keg and carbing up as per usual?
Note that this would really be going for volume of a recipe I have brewed over 10x instead of trying out something new. I am thinking I may have problems with differences in fermentation plus if one goes bad i would throw them both off. Buuuut, i still think it could be possible. what do you think?