Let's say you brewed 20 gallons of IPA in the same week. You have a kegerator that will hold 10 gallons. What do you do to make sure you drink the beer fresh? I was thinking I'll keg it when ready because I don't secondary and I don't want it sitting in fermenters too long maybe prime the kegs and store them in my 55 degree basement for the month it'll take me to drink the 10 I Put in the fridge. And Dryhop when I'm getting ready to put the other kegs in? Any thoughts or ideas? I have enough kegs for all of it btw
You don't need to prime the two that don't fit. Just purge well with CO2, pressurize them to ~ 20 psi and leave them in your basement until the first keg in your kegerator kicks. Put the second keg on, and let the third carbonate via set & forget in the meantime. If you are going to prime them, do the same thing - but you'll probably want to store them somewhere warmer than 55.
Cold beer absorbs CO2 more efficiently than warm beer. You can connect the storage kegs to CO2 once every 5-7 days to replenish the head space CO2. If you put 20 psi in the head space and disconnect it, the CO2 will slowly saturate the beer. Eventually, the pressure in the head space is not sufficient to maintain the seal. Then your beer is exposed to air. Some people rig a pressure gauge for this purpose and reconnect to CO2 whenever the gauge reads low.
