Dumping undercarbed / no carb bottles in keg

[fimpster]

I did a double batch of CYBI dead guy clone. Half the batch got wlp001 and half got wlp090. All have been bottled 6-7 weeks. The 001 are fantastic. The 090 floccd early I guess, and after 6 week they're barely carbed.

Since bottling that batch, I have come into an old fridge from my neighbors remodel project. Only cost me a 12er of brew! Also picked up some ball locks and a co2 tank, and I already have my first kegged batch.

What I want to do is put all of the bottles from the uncared batch in a corney and force carb. I'd even blend some bottles of the 001 batch to bring the volume up.

My question is how to go about this without oxygenating the beer in the process?

Can I just fill the keg with a couple pounds of co2 and then pour the bottles in? And what of sanitation for a task like this?

I'm hoping another hbt has tried this and has some suggestions. Thanks!

 

[NMZippo]

I have never done this but it should work fine. Purge the air out (you had a few pounds of co2. i don't think you will need that much.). I would try to pour the bottles down the side of the keg and not just straight down the middle. I have a spray bottle of star san and would use that to sanitize the outside of the bottles. Also i would not plan on not aging this a long time, but don't worry about it going bad right away.

 

[fimpster]

I have never done this but it should work fine. Purge the air out (you had a few pounds of co2. i don't think you will need that much.). I would try to pour the bottles down the side of the keg and not just straight down the middle. I have a spray bottle of star san and would use that to sanitize the outside of the bottles. Also i would not plan on not aging this a long time, but don't worry about it going bad right away.

Haha, yeah didn't really mean to use a couple pounds. Just a good amount to make sure there's no o2 in there.

Though I'm not sure I want to try this quite yet. It sounded like a great idea after I'd had a few beers the other night. I may try popping the caps off a few bottles and adding a few grains of US05. See how that turns out first.

 

[Curtis2010]

Should work if you can avoid oxidizing/contaminating. I think purgeing w CO2 should take care of oxidizing. Given that they have alcohol content and mostly fermed should reduce contam issues. Have a coupleof beers & go for it!

 

[Hopper5000]

Ive done this with a big beer that didn't carb. I purged and then popped the tops off, sprayed with sanitizer and poured in. I tried to make sure the bottles didn't glug when I poured to help the situation. I wouldn't sacrifice the good 001 stuff to make up volume. If you do oxidize as long as you drink it in about a month or so you should be fine.

 

[TimBrewz]

This will work fine. I did it with both an imperial stout and a cider over the years. No problems as long as you purge the keg with CO2 and dont splash at transfer.