French Press with screw cap for infusing

Place your adjunct in a muslin/hop bag with a marble in it and drop it in a pressurized growler, strain it when you pour it in a glass in case anything got out of the bag

 

I'm sure Don's solution is better, but if you're looking infuse a bottle of beer, couldn't you also just pop the cap, shove your adjuncts right into the bottle, recap it, give it a little swirl, put it in the fridge, and then pour the whole thing into the French press the next day for straining purposes?

 

try lightly toasting the coconut in the oven beforehand. the oils will come to the surface exposing a rich(er) flavor.

personally, i would increase the amount of toasted coconut added until it was sufficient to cut about 23.5 hrs off the infusion time you mention.

 

i mean... if you're rollin' a Hummer, maybe consider getting a matching growler? they run $149ish. a canister keeps the contents carbonated.

 

Dogfish Head sells a mini randallizer,
that you might consider:

https://www.dogfish.com/shop/barware/randall-jr

 

I've done short term infusions (mostly with fresh hop cones from my yard) with the DFH Randall Jr. What I do is only infuse half of a beer, because pouring through the strainer seems to leave the beer fairly flat. I then pour the other half of the un-infused beer into the glass to mix together.

 

Google pressurized growlers and you will see the selections. I have 2, a UKeg which my kids gave me and a Brew-Tek (they only sell in bulk, you have to find someone that bought from them)growler that I bought at Whole Foods. There is also the GrowlCap (have not tested) that can be used. But the other option is to take a plastic coke bottle (or gatorade bottle with wide mouth) and drill a hole in the top and put in a schrader valve. Buy a bike CO2 inflator with some food grade CO2 cartridges. Place you adjuncts in a bag with a weight and drop them in the bottle, fill with beer, cap it and hit it with a small amount of CO2 to keep it pressurized. You should be good for 24 hrs, can swish it around every now and then and check the CO2 by squeezing the bottle. This last solution can be built out for < $20. FYI I would go with a brass valve vs a rubber one. Also while ordering all this, or buying it at your local autoparts store make sure to pick up a kit to replace the valve cores, sometimes these will get gunked up with beer and leak CO2. Have fun

 

Actually if you do this often, I actually recommend the plastic bottle route. You can do several different variants of a beer at one time for a side by side tasting, and the cost it a bottle of pop or a gatorade. Was at a brewery one time talking to a brewer and that is what he called his growler, a 2liter coke bottle and he had a bunch of caps he had drilled out. Good luck with it and report back which route you go. Also be careful with the CO2, just need a bump

 

Buy the CO2, you don't want to just pump oxygen into the beer and let it sit for a while. And be careful if you are using a glass growler, hopefully the cap will blow before the bottle if you mis-calc on the CO2. Forgot to mention that you need to bleed the pressure off before trying to open the container

 

Ditch the gorilla glue, you don't want that getting in your beer. You simply need the valve, with a couple of washers and either a couple of o'rings for seals or a rubber washer. If you are truly using this for just infusion don't worry about leaks. Just get some CO2 in there to keep a small amount of pressure on it. And FYI your cap and bottle are going to flex, gorilla glue is not what you want on that cap. I googled around and found this link, this is what you want to do