Carbonating beer with CO2 from fermentation
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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
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Re: Carbonating beer with CO2 from fermentation
Sounds like about the best one could do to me. Krausening would be my only other thought.
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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?
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