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Which is better, bottle conditioned VS force carbonating?


Good morning all. Type of beer aside, is there a difference in how long I can keep a bottle conditioned vs. force carbonated bottle of beer.

There are two reasons I wanted to know, first is the situation where I have 1 or 2 G left in the keg of a beer that is not as popular, a Porter in this case. So I’m thinking of bottling it with a beer gun, will this last longer than a month or so?

The second situation is when I have a 10G batch, I’ll want to bottle 5 and Keg 5. I’m thinking for ease Id keg both and then beer gun the 5 into bottles. Here there is the choice to prime and bottle if it would have and effect on the length the beer will stay good in the bottle.



Thanks
TimCA


Stay drunk,…. Avoid the hangover!

you probably won't see much of a difference.
Technicly a bottle conditioned could get off flavors because of the yeast deteriorating or whatever but you will probably be fine
BUB

Supposedly yeast in the bottle will scavenge oxygen that works its way through the cap liner, thus preventing staling.

In real life, though, I find that as long as the beer is stored cold that the bottling method doesn't matter much.