ok to shake a keg a day before serving to even out spice?

[heckofagator]

I brewed a Pumpkin Ale a while back. When I moved from the fermenter into the keg, I hardly got any of the pumpkin spice, so I threw in a little more pumpkin spice into the fermenter just before I transferred to the keg. I am a little worried that its not all fully mixed in the keg.

The keg has been on CO2 for a couple weeks and I just pulled the first couple glasses. It seems to taste ok, although I wonder if some of the spice has settled down to the bottom where I'm drinking from.

I was wondering if it'd be ok to tip the keg over a couple time to just make sure whatever is in there is evenly distributed.

 

[Komocabo]

You can, but you might get cloudy beer from shaking up anything that as settled. Granted it would settle again in a few days. If it was me, and it tasted ok, I wouldn't do anything but drink it as it is now ☺

 

[william_shakes_beer]

When do you add your spices? i have tried a few ways and finally settled on a 10 minute addition like aroma hops. IMHO if you don't like the spice level, leave this batch alone and push up your spice bill next time. Also, FWIW, I have found that most of the flavor I attribute to pumpkin is the ginger. Therefore I do 1 tsp of each "pumpkin" spice except 2 of ginger.

 

[heckofagator]

Sorry for the delay....I ended up adding the pumpkin pie spice late in the boil (in addition to the small amount I threw into the fermenter just before kegging).

I didn't end up shaking the keg, since I had people coming over soon. Now that all that is done and I still have a little left, it probably doesn't matter too much.