How to bottle an unblended (therefore uncarbonated?) lambic?

[Mr. No-Tip]

A mate and I have 100l of lambic in the barrel. It will be about 9 months old in time for the ACT comps this year - maybe a bit soon - I realise 9 months means it probably won't do that well, but I am keen for the feedback.

I have some of it racked off onto fruit, and will make a faux geueze by carbonating it, but I also want to enter it as a straight lambic. From my reading of style guidelines, straight lambics are usually still or close to still. I wondered if I bottled that straight off the barrel it might get oxidised.

What do folk do in this situation? Tiny bit of sugar? Bottle just before comps? I suppose a lambic this young might still be producing C02 when I bottle it?

 

[Goldenchild]

Fill the bottle with a smaller headspace. Maybe half that of a regular beer.
Being 9 months old i doubt there is many fermentable sugars left from the brett and solely the bacteria doing its thing which shouldnt produce too much CO2.
I have drank a bottle of 3 fonteinen- Doesjel which is a traditional flat blended lambic
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/3-fonteinen-doesjel/77584/
6 yrs old and bottled with regular headspace and a cork i didn't notice any offensive oxidisation.

 

[joshuahardie]

Can you flush the bottle with C02 before filling....

 

[Mr. No-Tip]

Thanks guys.

Can you flush the bottle with C02 before filling....

Sure can, but i think I'd have to tip it upright or semi horizontal at best to get it filled from the barrel. Still, better than nothing.