{"id":17803,"date":"2014-02-12T23:45:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T04:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17803"},"modified":"2014-02-12T23:45:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T04:45:46","slug":"four-fresh-kegs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/four-fresh-kegs\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Fresh Kegs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/food\/brewing_beer\/IMG_7872.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Four freshly filled kegs of beer in the garage to chill before carbonating: Imperial IPA, Hopeful Pale Ale, Chocolate \/ Vanilla Stout, and Dunkelweizen.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/105743-2\/IMG_7872.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year I&#8217;ve been brewing a batch of beer roughly once per week. This evening I kegged all four and now the beers are sitting in the garage chilling before I begin force carbonating them. I&#8217;m still trying to decide if I should purchase the ~$25 of extra fittings required to inject CO<sub>2<\/sub> via the outlet tube &#8212; something which will likely decrease carbonation time &#8212; or just go with the previous method of pressurizing the head of the keg and waiting. The former should have the beer soundly ready to go within a week, the latter has taken 2-3 without occasional shaking.<\/p>\n<p>The four beers shown here are an Double IPA and Dunkelweizen, both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brewersbestkits.com\/\">Brewer&#8217;s Best<\/a> kits, a Chocolate Stout (a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capncorkhomebrew.com\/\">Cap &#8216;N&#8217; Cork<\/a>\u00a0kit), and <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/01\/hopeful-pale-ale\/\">Hopeful Pale Ale<\/a>, a slightly smokey and citrus-y idea that I put together with the help of one of the folks up at Cap &#8216;N&#8217; Cork. After tasting them during kegging I&#8217;m pretty happy, and I&#8217;m particularly looking forward to trying the Hopeful IPA because it seems to have been a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Since the beginning of the year I&#8217;ve been brewing a batch of beer roughly once per week. This evening I kegged all four and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/four-fresh-kegs\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four Fresh Kegs<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17804,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17803\/revisions\/17804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}