Bottling Part of a Batch

[NobleNewt]

I brewed up an amber ale last Saturday and used Voss Kveik. I'm at FG, but I don't quite have enough bottles to bottle the entire batch. I have no problem waiting for bottles, but I had an idea.

For this batch, I was going to individually prime my bottles with sucrose and bottle straight out of the fermenter. In doing so, theoretically, I should be able to maintain some sort of CO2 barrier on top of the finished beer in the fermenter. (I understand that there's not a true blanket of CO2, since that mix of air/CO2 is nonlinear.)

Has anyone done anything like this? Good idea/bad idea? Not worth the effort? Calculations tell me that about 3g of sucrose per 16 oz. bottle should yield about 2.5 volumes of CO2.

 

[mattdee1]

I wouldn't do it, myself. Even if there is CO2 in the fermentor headspace to start, every bottle you fill will draw in more air which will just sit there attacking your beer while you wait for more bottles.

 

[RPh_Guy]

+1 air pulled in will contribute to oxidation for the beer still in the fermenter.

 

[NobleNewt]

Thank you both for the replies. That's what I was needing. Hate to wait, but if it's better for the product in the end then I have no problems with it!