Kegging before FG is reached

[Oscbert]

I got everything sanitized and ready to keg before I checked the FG. I checked the FG and realized that I was about 8 gravity points from where I needed to be. Plus the sample was slightly carbonated. I decided to keg anyway and leave the keg at 70 degrees to continue fermentation.
Is there any problems with doing this? It's just like transferring to a secondary right? Plus I will get some natural CO2 and save a bit on purchased CO2.
Thoughts?

 

[Homercidal]

It's possible that the carbonation affected the reading? Did you adjust for temperature?

At any rate, the keg will not be affected by the extra pressure and as long as it's a beer that doesn't need to be clear (if the beer isn't clear yet) then there is no problem.

Even so, if you wait a bit to drink you can just pull a pint or two at the start and get rid of the sediment that way.

And FYI, a lot of people prime their kegs with sugar instead of carbing with gas. Just make sure to adjust for the headspace difference. The amount of sugar is different than for 5 gallons of bottled beer.

 

[Oscbert]

Thanks! Interesting about the sugar for keg being different for bottles. I will look into that if I ever decide to do that.
When I did hydrometer reading the temp was around 68 degrees. You're right the CO2 could have messed up the reading. I just figured since it was carbonated it was a good indicator that it wasn't quite done. I have no problem waiting another week before I cold crash it and put it on gas. Thanks for letting me know there will be no issues and I will pull a couple pints off before serving to others.