hi everyone,
i recently got a 20L keg and am wondering how cheap i can be - is it possible to fill the keg with beer, add the right amount of sugar and use that to carbonate it instead of the usual co2 etc (that stuff is a bit too expensive right now) i realise it would then have to pretty much all be drank in one night, or the beer would go flat by the end (as the pressure decreases..) so i would be using it as a keg for a party.
would this work? then i wold only need the tap, right...and any ideas on how much space to leave in the top of the keg so its not overcarbonated?
..or is this all a bit too risky, i dont want it to explode and kill somebody or worse be full of flat beer
thanks!
i recently got a 20L keg and am wondering how cheap i can be - is it possible to fill the keg with beer, add the right amount of sugar and use that to carbonate it instead of the usual co2 etc (that stuff is a bit too expensive right now) i realise it would then have to pretty much all be drank in one night, or the beer would go flat by the end (as the pressure decreases..) so i would be using it as a keg for a party.
would this work? then i wold only need the tap, right...and any ideas on how much space to leave in the top of the keg so its not overcarbonated?
..or is this all a bit too risky, i dont want it to explode and kill somebody or worse be full of flat beer
thanks!