no co2 but i kegged..

[jeremybmx10]

i want to put my beer in my keg but i dont have my co2 tank ready will it make my beer bad if it sits in the keg for a few days and let it naturaly carbinate using priming sugar untill my co2 comes in?

 

[sandyeggoxj]

The big issue is all the oxygen in the headspace of the keg. If you can flush it with co2 then let the keg carbonate you avoid the oxidation issues and save co2. I would hold off for a few days until you get co2.

 

[Doctor_M]

Yes you can but I wouldn't, right now your beer is sitting in a vessel that should have a natural co2 blanket (by product of fermentation) protecting it. When you move it to the keg it will have lost that blanket, adding priming sugar will eventually help recreate this blanket and eventually carbonation but it isn't instant like when you immediately purge oxygen from your keg with co2.

My sop is to also purge my keg of o2 before I even begin transfer by putting the gas line on the beer out side thus allowing co2 to flow down through the dip tube which in turn pushes any o2 out. By doing this the worry of splashing while racking is minimized.

 

[tektonjp]

OH, go for it. Put the keg in a bit warmer place after you fill it. The temperature change will cause some of the CO2 in suspension to come out. Fills the headspace. Give it a little purge action. VIOLA. Done!

 

[tektonjp]

Yes you can but I wouldn't, right now your beer is sitting in a vessel that should have a natural co2 blanket (by product of fermentation) protecting it. When you move it to the keg it will have lost that blanket, adding priming sugar will eventually help recreate this blanket and eventually carbonation but it isn't instant like when you immediately purge oxygen from your keg with co2.

My sop is to also purge my keg of o2 before I even begin transfer by putting the gas line on the beer out side thus allowing co2 to flow down through the dip tube which in turn pushes any o2 out. By doing this the worry of splashing while racking is minimized.

You may be doing okay, but switching post connectors is asking for trouble. Gas and Liquid are slightly different in size, and if you search, you'll find threads about guys who switched things over and then could not get the connector off without breaking it apart. My suggestion, put a gas line on a black connector just for those times.

 

[jeremybmx10]

OH, go for it. Put the keg in a bit warmer place after you fill it. The temperature change will cause some of the CO2 in suspension to come out. Fills the headspace. Give it a little purge action. VIOLA. Done!

so im good to add it to the keg and then put it in a warmer place and ill be fine even without co2 purging it with my tank? also it could take up two a week or two to get my co2 tank so a week maybe two without co2 in the keg will be fine?

 

[Doctor_M]

so im good to add it to the keg and then put it in a warmer place and ill be fine even without co2 purging it with my tank? also it could take up two a week or two to get my co2 tank so a week maybe two without co2 in the keg will be fine?

I don't think anyone in this thread has said you can't, however there is a reason why most brewers report that their Ipa's (a beer style that is very vulnerable to oxidation) improve once they have switched to kegging. Unless your in a rush I stick by my recommendation of waiting it out.

 

[jeremybmx10]

its a festa brew wheat beer that is in my secondary right now.

 

[lukebeulah]

If you have it in secondary, just leave it there until you get co2. It is safe and secure where you have it.


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