Need to seal keg?

[kmat123]

I brewed a Pliny clone about a month ago that has been sitting in the secondary for the past two weeks dry-hopping. Due to an error on my order from kegconnection (which they are fixing) I didn't receive my primary CO2 regulator with my kegging kit. I was planning to rack the Pliny to the keg on Weds but have no way to seal it and purge the O2 (final volume will be around 4 gallons). Would it be a problem for me to simply rack it to the keg, close the lid and put it in my keezer until I receive my regulator at the beginning of next week?

 

[motobrewer]

i'd wait to rack until you had a reg.

i was cleaning out a keg yesterday, put starsan in, shook, and there was a few big air leaks. after a 30psi hit it was sealed nice and tight.

 

[abracadabra]

If my corny kegs don't self seal I work on them until they do. I rarely need or use pressure from a compressed source to obtain a seal.

I've had cornies that sealed at 30 PSI and leak at 8 PSI so I don't trust the corny if I have to pressurize it for a seal.

Getting a good self seal is especially important to me because I use cornies as secondaries too.

Swinging the lid 180 degrees will do the trick 9 times out of 10. If that don't work keg lub is applied and or a new O ring is installed. Sometimes the lip around the opening isn't nice and flat so I work to get it flat. And sometimes the swing arm needs new feet.

I mainly use CO2 to purge any O2 out of the corny but I do that before I transfer not after the fact.

To see if you have a leak fill the corny up with sanitzer or water and flip it upside down. If it does not leak the water with the pressure from 5 gallons of water and the 3 feet of head pressure the corny supplies by being upside down you more than likely have a corny that will self seal.

But given your brew is a month old and no longer producing much if any CO2 plus the fact that it's only 4 gallons and you have no way to displace the air in the corny, I'd wait.

 

[DKershner]

Just bring it over, i'll seal it up for you. My 20lb just went dead though, so it's on backup juice.

You want to get em off the dry hops too, and there is potential for some O2 to be in your secondary too if you have opened it this late in the game. Plus, better get it carbonating, the clock ticks fast on beer this insanely hoppy.

 

[david_42]

I would hold off. If you had 5 gallons or so, no problem racking, but a gallon of headspace leaves too much of a chance of leaving air in the keg.

 

[kmat123]

Thanks for the input guys. I'm new to kegging so I appreciate the help! I'm going to rack the Pliny to the keg and take it over to my friend's house to start carbing up in his keezer until mine is complete