Is my keg of beer wasted?

[bryancohen]

So I'm at a friends party, his daughters communion. He buys waaayyyy too much beer, a keg of yuengling lager and a couple of 1/4 kegs of **** beer I won't say the name of because they are Valdemort to me, except to say the name began with C and ended with S.

Anyway, this is Friday night. 3/4 of the half keg of lager is left over and my friend implores me to take it because he doesn't want it to go to waste and he knows I like beer. Problem is, I have no room in my home kegerator (it's a small keezer, only wide enough to hold sixtels). But I take the keg anyway and put it in my shop where I have a walk in cooler with plenty of room.

So it's been a few days. I removed the picnic tap when I put it there with the intent of finding some sort of temporary solution to at least save it until some future party where inevitably people who think yuengling is the **** will want to drink for free.

After all, it is free beer.

Anyway, here's my dilemma:

1) it's in a sanke keg. Is there any solution for keeping it under the proper co2 pressure besides hooking it up to a tap?

2) can I pour it into a corny? One of my corny kegs just kicked, I thought maybe I could pour some in there.

3) if It's flat (probable, it's been three or four days since I removed the picnic tap), can it be re carbonated in a corny? I'm fairly new to home brewing and I've only carbonated a couple of kegs, but I'm thinking I could get it in the corny and maybe force carb?

Anyway, any advice on saving a keg of beer would be appreciated.

Bryan






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[LKABrewer]

If it was on a normal party tap it has been oxidized. Throw it out.

 

[pvpeacock]

Agreed. Unless it was dispensed using CO2 at the communion, it's toast.

 

[PasbitinusBluinusRibbinus]

We once salvaged a keg by transferring to a corny keg. We drank it aggressively the next few days, and by the end it was getting gross.

 

[rockbasementbeer]

Dump the beer and turn the keg into a keggle!

 

[day_trippr]

Well that's a relief. From the title I thought something tragic happened.

Remain calm and dump.

Cheers!

 

[bryancohen]

Looks like I'll be pouring out a really long one for my dead homies.

Although I had a couple pints today and it tasted fine, my bet is I have maybe a week or so before it goes flat.


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