what to do with extra beer

[Willys]

Ah, you misunderstand. I want to brew more but I only have so many kegs and storage space for bottles. I can't finish my beer fast enough to make room for more brews. If kegs were not so damned expensive these days I would be fine.

[Ozwald]

Ah, you misunderstand. I want to brew more but I only have so many kegs and storage space for bottles. I can't finish my beer fast enough to make room for more brews. If kegs were not so damned expensive these days I would be fine.

I think we all need 'just a couple more kegs'. Even after we get a couple more.

I sure do.

Starting to work on a 7 tap kegerator. I'm sitting ok with a 1/2bbl sankey & 9 cornies, but a couple more would make things easier

[JoeBeer100]

Ah, you misunderstand. I want to brew more but I only have so many kegs and storage space for bottles. I can't finish my beer fast enough to make room for more brews. If kegs were not so damned expensive these days I would be fine.

What about using 5 gallon carboys for long-term storage? They aren't as pricey as kegs.

[Willys]

Ah, you misunderstand. I want to brew more but I only have so many kegs and storage space for bottles. I can't finish my beer fast enough to make room for more brews. If kegs were not so damned expensive these days I would be fine.

What about using 5 gallon carboys for long-term storage? They aren't as pricey as kegs.

I would still need somewhere to keep them cold. It may be an option to lager in a carboy once I have dug deep enough in the crawl space.

[Bugeater]

You don't really need to be all that concerned about keeping kegs cold. Cool room temperature storage will speed up the aging process a bit so styles like lower gravity wheat beers or normal gravity highly hopped IPA's won't keep as well (they need to be drunk young anyway), but other beers, especially barleywines and imperial almost anything, can handle room temperature aging for a couple month just fine. You may want to hold off dry hopping something stored this way until a week or so before putting it on tap.