Conditioning in the Corny

[blugrazz]

For conditioning in the keg is it sufficient to just purge the air in the headspace without sealing the keg under pressure. I only have a hand charger available at the time and certain that I cannot get a good seal with it alone. Will there be enough residual gassing off that would prevent oxidation. Its probably at FG now.

 

[Hammy71]

You want to seal the lid. A cartridge charger should have enough in it to purge the headspace as well as seal the lid.

 

[blugrazz]

To be clear, I would be putting the cap on the corny (i.e. sealing) and running the pressure out of the hand charger as much as I can. So, its sounds like I should be fine.

 

[acidrain]

Yes, use the hand charger to seal the closed lid.
This will place a protective layer of Co2 onto the beer surface, and seal the lid (they don't seal without pressure).

 

[ryno1ryno]

For conditioning in the keg is it sufficient to just purge the air in the headspace without sealing the keg under pressure. I only have a hand charger available at the time and certain that I cannot get a good seal with it alone. Will there be enough residual gassing off that would prevent oxidation. Its probably at FG now.

So you are conditioning with sugar?

 

[blugrazz]

So you are conditioning with sugar?

I will be force carbing later.

 

[david_42]

Be very careful with the hand charger. Because of the small headspace you can exceed the relief valve pressure in a few seconds.