Bottling Kegged Beer

[The Big Burper]

Hello Fellow quaffers,

A sad story. I have kegged a Coopers APA. In fermenter
2 weeks, gassing 1 week (this is my normal routine for ales). Now drinking.

It tastes 'orrible, like it needs a bit longer to condition.

Question: Can I decant the keg into a clean carboy, wait till it goes flat
and then bottle with the normal amount of priming sugar?

Anyone done this?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Dave

 

[jimi]

Hey Burper,

Not to sure why you'd try to do this.
If it needs more time to condition, I tend to think that beer conditions quicker under pressure.
If the beer is going to improve with conditioning, it's in the right place to do so.
Are you concerned about the keg giving the "orrible" taste? If so I fear it's already too late, the taste aint coming from the kegs gas (it is CO2 right <_< )

 

[Bribie G]

'wait till it goes flat' seems to provide the answer as you would be maintaining a CO2 layer over the beer, and airlocking it would be an idea. In effect whilst in the keg your beer was in secondary or cold conditioning as if it was in a fermenter all along, so bottling at this stage should be fine. Maybe use some more gelatine on bottling.

Cheers

 

[RetsamHsam]

You could just bottle it straight from the keg.. I'm yet to do it but there are some instructions somewhere in this thread

 

[The Big Burper]

Thanks for the replies,

I probably should have used the term "matured" rather than condition.

It was a Coopers Australia Pale Ale, local HBS equivalent of BE2, and an
extra 200g dex. So we had 750g dex, 200g corn syrup and 250 g LDME,

Fermented with S-04 yeast, pitched straight in, fermented at 20dC for 14 days,
and 7 days gassing.

It tastes really 'sharp', sort of tinny, and is not what I expected.


Anyway I managed to drink it all :unsure: . but back to Morgans for me. at least I
have had consistent results with their brews.

cheers
Dave