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Hello,
We have a lead on beer from a brewery that is already kegged. We were thinking of distilling this. Does anyone have any experience distilling beer that has already been kegged and pre-carbonated?
I suspect we need to get rid as much of the carbonation as we can before we distill.
Any other suggestions or ideas?
Thanks,
PghDistiller
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Yep you'll need to degas first. Also need to clean your kit really well after as we hop oils will contaminate the inside. you might need to pull everything apart - depending on how you are setup.
I have done this in the past. Wasn't keen on the resulting spirit. As well as concentrating the alcohol, distillation also concentrated the hop bitterness
If you were to decant into an open vessel with agitator and run the agitator for a day ?? I wonder how beneficial this would be in degassing the beer ??
Turning the still on de-gasses it nicely :)
Just add some antifoam
Don't waste your time with low alcohol session/light beers (sub 5%), use caution with big IPAs, and keep in mind old Lagers can be skunky (high sulfur) as hell too.
agreed... I did 2000 cans of 5% beer.. unless you have a continuous, not close to being worth it...