Weizenstein
Well-Known Member
We've all been there, your buddy has a huge party, buys some kegs of craft beer and picks up a keg of BMC beer because y'know, people still drink that right? Come Sunday morning the good beer is all gone and there's 10 gallons of America's finest left and the oxidation clock is counting down. All of your friends are hung over from the night before so you're lucky to kill a gallon with beermosas and red beer the next morning. What's a beer nerd to do?
Before you send the keg back to the distributor half full, why not transfer 5 gallons to a fermenter/corny? Purge with CO2, throw in some Brett dregs and some priming sugar to get fermentation going again and drive off some of that O2.
Sounds good in theory, so I'm filling a corny with Miller Lite after work to try this out, I'll let you know how it goes. If there's been too much oxygen introduced then it could end up acetic and cardboardy.
I regret that I have but one tongue to give for science.
Before you send the keg back to the distributor half full, why not transfer 5 gallons to a fermenter/corny? Purge with CO2, throw in some Brett dregs and some priming sugar to get fermentation going again and drive off some of that O2.
Sounds good in theory, so I'm filling a corny with Miller Lite after work to try this out, I'll let you know how it goes. If there's been too much oxygen introduced then it could end up acetic and cardboardy.
I regret that I have but one tongue to give for science.
