shortyjacobs

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Yeah, and it has the issue of creating some off flavors from vigorous fermentation. I'm of the Palmer school that says any time yeast eat sugar, they eat it quick, and produce yucky tastes. With a bit of time, these tastes "condition" out as the yeast clean up after themselves. This happens with us who do either a long primary, a primary then secondary, or a primary and then long bottle condition. It isn't a problem, but to me, yeast carbonating means a slightly longer conditioning time to get rid of "green beer flavors".

It's not really a big deal though. Keg needs a few more days to condition out the green tastes, and trub and sediment get sucked up the diptube with the first pint draw. Plus, whether or not it increases sediment is debatable, as yeast only reproduce aerobically, (with oxygen), and your beer, once fermented, is a very anerobic environment, (no oxygen present), so usually with yeast carbonation really all that happens is that the yeast that is already there eats the sugar and produces CO2, but they don't produce more yeast.

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erikpete18

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All you're doing if you naturally carbonate with sugar in the keg is basically turning it into a big bottle-conditioned beer. Just like a bottle, though, you should let it sit at least 3-4 weeks with the sugar to carbonate properly. You will wind up with a little more trub in the bottom, but you get a decent amount anyways and for me it always comes out with the first pint.

Unless you've got a secondary regulator to turn up higher so you can carb at the higher temps, though, its probably not worth the trouble. If you've got room for another keg in your fridge, you can always get another splitter and hook it up to CO2 but not have a tap for it, so its ready to go when another one kicks.

Oh yeah, almost forgot, nice tap handle!