Add sugar and then Keg??

[PeterB]

Can you add the fermentation sugar and then keg the batch? My first batch was kegged (stainless steel soda keg and CO2 for carbonation with no sugar) and it was terrific.
I'm trying to bottle after kegging to give to friends, but without the sugar for fermentation, it is flat. Thanks for any help guys.

 

[Yooper]

You can add sugar, and then leave the keg at room temperature to carbonate, just as you would with bottles. However, it's not a "better" carbonation than you get from force carbing.

If you bottled carbonated beer from the keg, it's possible that the co2 got "knocked out" during filling, resulting in flat beer. In order to bottle from the keg, you need a counter pressure set up.

You can buy a Beergun, or you can make one yourself. Here's how I do mine:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/we-no-need-no-stinking-beer-gun-24678/

 

[Edcculus]

I think you are talking about 2 different things. If you force carbonate a keg, you don't need to add sugar, even if you bottle off of the keg. Just use the link Yooper has at the end of her post. The key is a slow fill from the bottom of the bottle and to cap on foam. This will preserve all of the carbonation and eliminate oxygen from the bottle.

 

[PeterB]

You can add sugar, and then leave the keg at room temperature to carbonate, just as you would with bottles. However, it's not a "better" carbonation than you get from force carbing.

If you bottled carbonated beer from the keg, it's possible that the co2 got "knocked out" during filling, resulting in flat beer. In order to bottle from the keg, you need a counter pressure set up.

You can buy a Beergun, or you can make one yourself. Here's how I do mine:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/we-no-need-no-stinking-beer-gun-24678/

Thanks YooperBrew! Exactly what happened - the Co2 got knocked out resulting in a flat bottle of beer. Will make up that homemade beergun next. Thanks for the tip that sugar doesn't improve the carbonation...