Can you re keg a beer?

[Rotor_Head]

Ohhhhhk so I kegged a blackberry wheat and got greedy so the trub went in. So that's gone not so well. Can I re keg the beer to save the rest? Will it settle? What's the best course of action here?

 

[cannman]

Keep it in the keg, cold crash it hard at zero Celsius (the alcohol should keep it from freezing) and keep it there for as long as you want, I'd say a week is good. The longer the better. The crap will have settled. Then be prepared to sacrifice 2-3 pints of trub when tapping.

If you can't wait, you can look into beer filtering, you you'll need some equipment and an extra keg.

Good luck!

 

[Hoppity]

I re-keg all the time, especially if I know I'll be traveling with the keg. Your trub and suspended yeast will settle and stay there unless the keg is agitated. If it doesn't clog your dip tube it will be drawn up in the first few pours.

 

[Zepth]

I'll probably be doing this shortly myself. Impatience led to not cold crashing, and the first few pours were filthy. Then I started pouring pure foam from the tap. Cleaned out the lines thinking they must be dirty from all that yeast going through them, no luck. My guess at this point is the dip tube is creating mad nucleation points and that's where the problem lies. Penance I guess.

For the record the tap (and others on the fridge) were working flawlessly before this particular keg in question. Temp, PSI, line length all didn't change.

 

[cannman]

I re-keg all the time, especially if I know I'll be traveling with the keg. Your trub and suspended yeast will settle and stay there unless the keg is agitated. If it doesn't clog your dip tube it will be drawn up in the first few pours.

If you travel regularly with kegs, then you really should invest in a filtration system. No more travel-haze, stirred up yeast/trub. Filter, travel, tap, pour

 

[ajdelange]

I always keg when there is a good amount of yeast suspended. I want that in the keg as it keeps the beer fresh for a year or more. Clearly, I can't take such a keg to a party or club meeting so I rack off to another keg (assuming it's been in the first keg long enough to settle) when I need to do that. IOW it's SOP, do it all the time...

 

[Rotor_Head]

I appreciate all the help here. Thanks for taking the time to post. I crashed the keg and its been sitting at around ~33 degrees for over a week. I've had some nasty come out the first few pulls so I'm gonna wave off on rekegging for now. There's also a possibility I just brewed crap beer and the whole thing is ruined. I'll let ya'll know how it turns out.