Carbonating beer with CO2 from fermentation
Moderator: Brandon
- cinbers
- Posts: 12
- Joined: Sun May 15, 2016 12:42 pm
- Location: Germany
Carbonating beer with CO2 from fermentation
Hey guys,
I recently had a keg with a leak, so my fully carbed beer went flat with no CO2 left... so it needed to be force carbed some how. I had the idea to do this with CO2 from fermentation. I put about 7L water into a 19L NC-Keg, about 250g of sugar and some bakers yeast (no other yeast on hand at this time) as well as a bit DAP. After one day, I then connected both kegs with my spunding apparatus. After 5 days, my beer is nicely carbed again. No difference in taste so far. Both Kegs went to about 2 bar at room temperature, which is about ideal.
any thoughts about that? Bad or good idea?
cheers
I recently had a keg with a leak, so my fully carbed beer went flat with no CO2 left... so it needed to be force carbed some how. I had the idea to do this with CO2 from fermentation. I put about 7L water into a 19L NC-Keg, about 250g of sugar and some bakers yeast (no other yeast on hand at this time) as well as a bit DAP. After one day, I then connected both kegs with my spunding apparatus. After 5 days, my beer is nicely carbed again. No difference in taste so far. Both Kegs went to about 2 bar at room temperature, which is about ideal.
any thoughts about that? Bad or good idea?
cheers
-
- Assistant Brewer
- Posts: 264
- Joined: Mon Apr 25, 2016 10:57 pm
Re: Carbonating beer with CO2 from fermentation
Sounds like about the best one could do to me. Krausening would be my only other thought.
Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk
Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk
- Ancient Abbey
- German Brewing
- Posts: 1187
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 8:23 pm
Re: Carbonating beer with CO2 from fermentation
Krausening would be my first thought. Do you have any fermenting beer in the pipeline you can use?
- The best do the basics better -
- Bilsch
- Assistant Brewer
- Posts: 284
- Joined: Thu Mar 10, 2016 12:35 pm
Re: Carbonating beer with CO2 from fermentation
cinbers wrote: I put about 7L water into a 19L NC-Keg, about 250g of sugar and some bakers yeast (no other yeast on hand at this time) as well as a bit DAP. After one day, I then connected both kegs with my spunding apparatus.
Great new idea. I like it !
- cinbers
- Posts: 12
- Joined: Sun May 15, 2016 12:42 pm
- Location: Germany
Re: Carbonating beer with CO2 from fermentation
Ancient Abbey wrote:Krausening would be my first thought. Do you have any fermenting beer in the pipeline you can use?
I already finished carbonating the beer

I did krausening in the first place. There were no fermenting beer around in the pipeline, anyway the keg wouldnt fit any more volumes of it as its maximum filled.
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest