I may have to drink a corney this week!

[bullinachinashop]

So, I let St. patty's day go by without kegging my Irish red. It just didn't finish up and clear enough. Patience is a virtue so they say.

Friday night I decide it's finally ready. Cold crash for 48 hours and it's looking great.

Last night I decide to keg.

Wash out a corney that I just finished and fill with about 2 gal boiling water.

Let set for 10 min, run out lines, shake and drain.

Fill and take final hydro sample(1.008). Taste hydro, Yummy, can't wait to carb.

Cap the corney, force carb @ 30# for 3 min then back off to 15#.

Go to bed. 3am wake up and remember I didn't purge the keg.

I hope I didn't just ruin 5 gal of a great beer!

Bull

 

[Panagiotis]

The exact thing happened to me 4 days ago. Purged with Co2 the day after that. I think it will be a great beer nevertheless.

 

[Ohio-Ed]

I wouldn't sweat it to much, I think you'll be just fine.

 

[bullinachinashop]

When there are 3 kids and a wife running around, sometimes you just make stupid mistakes.

Oh well, its just beer. I'll make more!

Bull

 

[david_42]

There isn't all that much O2 in the headspace and it hasn't had much time to be absorbed. So, purge and re-pressurize.

 

[Sigafoos]

I've never purged and my beers have been fine. If you want an excuse to barrel through it though, have fun

 

[Homercidal]

I have only purged one of my beers and they were ok. Although I did notice a degradation over the couple of months that I had them. May have been due to oxidation, who knows. I have not had the pleasure of noticing a cardboard flavor. I may be unable to sense it, or just untrained.

I would not sweat it. O2 can take a while to set hold. I doubt that keg of Red is going to last very long!

 

[bullinachinashop]

Damn, you guy's are taking away all my excuses.