Kegging Mishap?

[HopsMan]

I just kegged a Robust Vanilla Porter 2 days ago, and realized I didn't lay a CO2 blanket in the tank prior to filling. I was careful not to allow the beer to stir/oxygenate too much while filling, but I guess my questions is:

Should I crack the keg, rack to a bucket, purge the O2 from the tank and leave the CO2 layer like I should, and then rack back to the Keg? Or should I consider it done and let it be?

Thanks guys!

I should note too, after sealing the Keg, I did fill and purge three times.

 

[cheier]

RDWHAHB. You are fine. As long as you fill and purge the head space a few times, you are good. I do that a lot.

 

[Hammy71]

I never fill the tank with CO2 before I keg. As cheier said, as long as you purged the headspace....no worries.

 

[FrewBrew]

By transferring and rekegging you would be exposing it to more o2 than you're trying to eliminate. Rdwahahb

 

[Ace_Club]

Yes, there is no real need to purge the keg of O2 prior to filling.

Think of it in terms of bottling, you don't purge the bottling bucket prior to filling, nor do you purge the bottles prior to filling them.

Filling the keg and then purging the head space a couple times with CO2 will be more than adequate. Additionally, if you naturally carbonate the kegs, the yeast will use the small amount of O2 that remains when they carbonate the beer.

 

[HopsMan]

Excellent, thanks guys!