Keg after bottle

[TWS22]

I've got a holiday ale kicking around from Christmas. For reasons I haven't been able to identify, it never carbonated after bottling. The flavor's great, though, so I haven't been able to bring myself to trash the batch.

I'm about to get my legging kit in the mail. What do you guys think - should I break those bottles open, dump them into a keg and force carb that beast?

 

[iparks81]

If you do that you have a pretty big risk of Oxidizing the beer...(leave one in a glass in the fridge overnight if your not familiar with the flavor). yuck.

anyways, you can hook up your gas line to the keg flood it with CO2 and then poor the beers as gently as possible...kind of hokey tho.
another Idea is to get your bottling bucket all sanitized, flood the bucket with CO2 (as best you can) and gently poor the beers into the bucket and siphon from the bucket to the keg.

Ive contemplated doing this with a batch once it was way over carbed in the bottles so i wanted to keg it to be able to back the carbonation off a bit....didnt end up doing it for this exact reason, but who knows some one else might chime in with another Idea, or saying this one works well...