I brewed a London Pride clone a while back. When it was done fermenting I siphoned it over to a keg and added about 6.5 oz of DME. (I did some research and it appears that this may have been a bit too much) The plan was to let it naturally carbonate and then serve under about 3 psi. Just enough to push the beer out and fill up the headspace to prevent oxidation. I went to pull the first pint today and even without the CO2 tank hooked up it came out as all foam. I had to fill a 32oz pitcher just to get a full pint. What should I do? As i see it I have two main options.
Keep serving without the CO2 hooked up and hope the foaming goes down. The risks of this include wasting beer and oxidation, although the beer is so carbed right now it might be filling up the headspace on its own.
2. Use a pin and push down the gas input to let off the excess pressure and then serve as I had planned. The main risk of this is letting of too much pressure and letting the beer go flat in which case I would have to use CO2 from the tank to carb the beer. I would like to avoid this b/c the whole point was to have a naturally carbed cask style english ale.
Thoughts?
The good news: Even with all the foaming the beer tastes great and drinks like an authentic English cask.
Keep serving without the CO2 hooked up and hope the foaming goes down. The risks of this include wasting beer and oxidation, although the beer is so carbed right now it might be filling up the headspace on its own.
2. Use a pin and push down the gas input to let off the excess pressure and then serve as I had planned. The main risk of this is letting of too much pressure and letting the beer go flat in which case I would have to use CO2 from the tank to carb the beer. I would like to avoid this b/c the whole point was to have a naturally carbed cask style english ale.
Thoughts?
The good news: Even with all the foaming the beer tastes great and drinks like an authentic English cask.