Should I re-carbonate with yeast?

[rtbrews]

I am still new to kegging and screwed up properly carbonating my beer the first time. I added priming sugar, but did not pressurize the keg before so there was clearly too much head space.

I did the same thing this time (about 2 weeks ago) so I have a keg that has had priming sugar added but probably too much head space top carbonate it properly. My thought was to add a little bit of dry yeast to it today then pressurize it to encourage a little more activity and carbonation then tap it in a couple weeks.

Has anybody had any experience with anything like this?

 

[jezter6]

If you have the gas to pressurize, why the heck are not carbing with the co2 bottle?

 

[rtbrews]

I simply did not know it was needed. I stupidly assumed the keg would carbonate just like a bottle.

 

[buzzkill]

if you didnt hit it with some gas,it may have leaked all the C02 out.

 

[dedhedjed]

there should already be plenty of yeast in suspension to naturally carbonate...you might need to add more priming sugar if the keg was no pressurized to set the seals...or just force-carbonate- its much easier and more exact.