big78sam
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Hi all,
Due to brewing an emergency beer recently I had to finish fermenting an earlier beer in a willow cube. However, I used one that didnt have a tap fitted to the bottom (the bung hole is still sealed up so I can't easily unscrew the bung and replace with a tap). So I propose the following:
1 - crash chill for a week
2 - Hook up empty sanitised keg to gas and burp the keg so it's filled with c02
3 - remove keg lid and slowly pour from cube into keg
If I attempt the above will I likely introduce too much oxygen into the beer or should this be OK given co2 will be sitting in the keg so it will be co2 rather than o2 that enters the beer?
I'll try to drink the keg within a month or 2 so the beer doesnt have time to ozidise. I could attempt to siphon but I dont really have any hose that's long enough. And I guess sucking on the hose to start the siphon will introduce an infection risk. If I buy some hose is there any other way to start a syphon from a cube that doesnt require fancy equipment or sucking?
Does anyone have any brilliant suggestions?
Cheers, Sam.
Due to brewing an emergency beer recently I had to finish fermenting an earlier beer in a willow cube. However, I used one that didnt have a tap fitted to the bottom (the bung hole is still sealed up so I can't easily unscrew the bung and replace with a tap). So I propose the following:
1 - crash chill for a week
2 - Hook up empty sanitised keg to gas and burp the keg so it's filled with c02
3 - remove keg lid and slowly pour from cube into keg
If I attempt the above will I likely introduce too much oxygen into the beer or should this be OK given co2 will be sitting in the keg so it will be co2 rather than o2 that enters the beer?
I'll try to drink the keg within a month or 2 so the beer doesnt have time to ozidise. I could attempt to siphon but I dont really have any hose that's long enough. And I guess sucking on the hose to start the siphon will introduce an infection risk. If I buy some hose is there any other way to start a syphon from a cube that doesnt require fancy equipment or sucking?
Does anyone have any brilliant suggestions?
Cheers, Sam.