bottle conditioning

The vast majority of home brewers bottle their fermented product for simplicity's sake, for aging or for other artisanal considerations. While bottle conditioning beer is effective and doesn't require much infrastructure, most home brewers eventually aspire to kegging their beer too. Once the set-up is in place, kegging offers numerous advantages over bottle-conditioning: it allows the brewer to control and modulate carbonation much more accurately and deliberately; it mitigates oxidation and … [Read more...] about Kegging Versus Bottle Conditioning