dummkauf
Well-Known Member
So I am fairly confident that Santa will be bringing me a counter pressure bottle filler for christmas, and for my second Christmas celebration of the year I have some requests for beer for presents, but the only beer I have ready to drink is in kegs and on tap in the kegerator, which is fine because I "should" have my bottle filler in time
But, I have 1 keg that was primed with corn sugar that is making me a bit nervous. I primed it since I had 2 full kegs in the fridge and didn't have a spare CO2 line to carb a 3rd keg. The primed keg sat at room temp for about 3 or 4 weeks which I figured would have fully carbonated it, but when I finally hooked it up to the kegerator it was just slightly fizzy. However, when I hooked up the CO2 I didn't hear the usual woosh of gas flowing into the keg, which tells me the pressure in the keg was equal to, or greater than, the pressure I had set the tank at. I then left it on the gas in the fridge and it fully carbed up and it is great now.
My concern is, the yeast may have been still actively carbing up the beer, and then I put it in the fridge which put the yeasties to sleep and force carbed it the rest of the way. So if I bottle it, and give it away, the beer will be sitting at room temp at some point, should I be worried about the yeasties waking up and exploding the bottle? Or were the yeast done, and all the CO2 just sitting in the head space of the keg but hadn't absorbed into the beer yet?
But, I have 1 keg that was primed with corn sugar that is making me a bit nervous. I primed it since I had 2 full kegs in the fridge and didn't have a spare CO2 line to carb a 3rd keg. The primed keg sat at room temp for about 3 or 4 weeks which I figured would have fully carbonated it, but when I finally hooked it up to the kegerator it was just slightly fizzy. However, when I hooked up the CO2 I didn't hear the usual woosh of gas flowing into the keg, which tells me the pressure in the keg was equal to, or greater than, the pressure I had set the tank at. I then left it on the gas in the fridge and it fully carbed up and it is great now.
My concern is, the yeast may have been still actively carbing up the beer, and then I put it in the fridge which put the yeasties to sleep and force carbed it the rest of the way. So if I bottle it, and give it away, the beer will be sitting at room temp at some point, should I be worried about the yeasties waking up and exploding the bottle? Or were the yeast done, and all the CO2 just sitting in the head space of the keg but hadn't absorbed into the beer yet?