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Aging in a keg - warm or cold?

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 2:52 pm
by bf514921
So something i have never tried i am about too. i have a stout that turned out a bit heavier than i wanted in alcohol(7.9%) i would like to age it for awhile and have tranfereed it to a keg, purged with co2. the question i have is to age it and get the rough edges off the flavor, do i age the keg warm or cold? i usually secondary beers in a 5 gallon carboy warm but i figured i had a few empty kegs and would see if this would work out. So the question, do you age your keg warm or cold? and the best part Why?

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:18 am
by BrewHound
the higher the temperature typically the faster a beer ages. So if you are wanting to take the rough edges off of it faster I would do it on the warmer side. by warmer I am speaking about higher then celler temp but lower then average home temp. Somewhere between 60F and 70F degrees.

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:38 pm
by Bones
I aged a holiday spice years ago in a keg, in the basement where it was cool and relatively constant temps. Wasn't my favorite beer, but the next year I did like it more than the previous year.