Maybe a stupid growler question...

[mikeljcarr]

Might be short on bottles for bottling day. Can I open a few finished bottles and transfer to a growler, freeing up a few bottles for bottling and not risking over pressurizing the growler during initial bottle conditioning? Or will this cause the transferred beer to go flat once opened?

 

[joety]

If you pour carefully and don't dislodge too much CO2 from solution that should work, but I don't count on growler's to hold the carbonation for more than a few days, so I hope you're thirsty.

 

[Erroneous]

Also, chill the growler to the same temp as the beer.

 

[Conan]

If you have some pop bottles around you could try those as well- for the to-be-carb'd batch, I mean. Kyle