sirsloop
Well-Known Member
So I'm going to be submitting a couple of my brews to competition next weekend. I have all of my beer kegged and was just curious about carbonation holding up. In the very very few bottles that I pull off the keg, I just release all of the keg pressure and pour slowly into a chilled bottle at like 1psi. Well.. I use flip top bottles.. but will be capping these for competition. Anyways, do you think carbonation will hold up for two weeks while the bottles sit around? I know none of the gas is going to escape or anything, but i'm just concerned about them pouring a dud cause the headspace filled up with CO2 out of suspension. Should I put in a tiny bit of dextrose in the bottles just to partially prime them during the wait? Like bottle them tonight, put in 1/4tsp in the bottom, let them sit warm?