Happy international day of beer! I just finished celebrating 10 gallons of smoked beer, stout, and I'm looking forward to a draught of blonde ale from my kegerator later today. I have been homebrewing for nearly two years, and it is fun, practical hobby. Diversity is the name of the game, both in terms of beer styles for production but also in terms of the methods used for the production of beer: extract, partial puree, whole grains, a single infusion, decoction, boiling in the package, 1 gallon, 5 gallon, 10 gallons — you get the idea. Hobby facilitates the acquisition of a huge amount of equipment for each of these different methods. The latest addition to my hobby zymurgy is widge barrel.
Like most homebrewers I began bottling beer produced I. Although this allows you to easily share my work with friends and colleagues, I find it tedious, time-consuming process. When I bought my first keg, I promised that I would never pour beer again! Kaegi so much easier, much faster than filling. But it is not without problems.
I'm not especially careful Brewer — I'm in it for the product, process, so many of my brews ended up with a fair bit of precipitation. Even after racking for secondary, many of my beer had a large amount of sediment at the bottom. This sludge winds up being completely out of the first glass or two I removed from the keg.
This is because the kegs dip tubes, which the entire length of the barrel, pulling up in your beer glass. First pull or two will grab slime, which fell to the bottom and after the beer must be clean and delicious. Some homebrewers to avoid this problem by cutting their dip tube an inch or so shorter than usual, so that they sit above the sludge.
Barrel widge, on the other hand, floats to the top of your beer, ensure that your first pull clean and refreshing! He gives a length of flexible tubing and widge always rest at the top of the beer in your keg regardless of how many are left. It also includes a filter to ensure that any flotsam in the beer does not make it into your glass.
The only Kink using widge barrel is that you need to get a dip length of the pipeline for your keg. Replace the standard dip dip tube with the length of the pipeline, connect the flexible tubing and finally connect widge barrel. Fill out and inflate your keg as normal, and you're done!
In order to really check widge barrel, I intentionally dirty beer brewed and ensures that a lot of pipes was transferred from the brew kettle in the bucket of the primary fermentation. I missed the process of secondary fermentation. When I filled out the barrel, I made sure to get a good bit of sludge from the bottom of the segment in the keg.
Despite my best efforts to cause barrel widge did something he should have done. Beer, which I refuse to be clean and clear glass from the first till the last! All the garbage, I purposely placed in the barrel remains at the bottom and not pulled up by widge.
Another use of barrel widge would use corny keg as a vessel of the secondary fermentation, and the use of widge barrel to ensure that only good clean beer gets transferred to the secondary in the keg. I haven't tried it yet, but it's definitely what I intend to try.
If you're a really good Brewer, who carefully filtered beer and makes clean sludge-free beer, you probably don't need drum widge. If you are a Brewer like me, barrel widge helps ensure that the beer is possible at all times!
United Kingdom brewing is currently the only distributor of United States barrel widge, what I found. Feel free to share in the comments if you find another source.
I learned about widge barrels through homebrew believes, and I urge all homebrewers follow this website (or related Twitter account). Thank you Anthony for Buckeye drink to get me the gas tube drop length, I need it so quickly. If you are cooking in Central Ohio, you should talk to Anthony.
Product page: Barrel Widge
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