I recently brewed an English Special Bitter. It has been in the primary for about three weeks and is now ready to keg. I pondered priming it in the keg with sugar, and adding some gelatin finings. I would also add some dry hops in a stainless mesh tea ball, and serve it from my kegerator at a low CO2 pressure, say 6-8 psi. It takes 2-3 months to consume a keg of beer at my house, so letting air into the keg in real draught ale fashion isn't really an option. Alternatively, I can just force carbonate the beer to the same 6-8 psi and serve as usual.
So, will priming the keg and serving it a low pressure of C02 be a close enough facsimile of real ale to make it worth the trouble? I'm curious to know if anyone has tried this technique.
So, will priming the keg and serving it a low pressure of C02 be a close enough facsimile of real ale to make it worth the trouble? I'm curious to know if anyone has tried this technique.