I am wanting to brew a bock and in the past, I have brewed it in the winter, in an unheated garage, using an electrically heated control box for temperature control. I was wanting to try using a corney keg, if I can find a lid that has been modified to accept a stopper and airlock. Has anyone tried this or know someone that has? Steve
Do you want to ferment it in a corny or cold condition it?
You can wedge a small stopper and airlock in the prv in the lid or use a gas disconnect and tubing connected to the gas post as a blowoff.
Are you talking about performing the primary fermentation in a corny keg, or lagering in the corny keg?
I have lagered in corny kegs before. Just like Steve said, I put a connector on the gas-in post with a short length of tubing that fed into a little bucket of star-san. I’ve had great results.
If you are lagering, then why do you need to attach an airlock or blow-off tube? Lagering is simply storing the beer in cold condition for a period of maturation time. When I brew my lagers, I ferment in glass for primary, then immediately close transfer to a corny keg and put it in my fridge for lagering.
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I am wanting to cold ferment and condition
He’s talking about primary fermentation in the keg. I do this exclusively and it works great. Like others said, use a gas disconnect and a piece of tubing clamped to it, run it into a jar of sanitizer or water. Works great and you can do a closed transfer to your serving keg or bottling keg. No air exposure…
Thank to all that responded. You gave me an easy solution. Cheers.