Foamy Wherry

[holley_dave]

Hi,

I've just started drinking my first homebrew, a Woodfordes Wherry kit that I got for Christmas.

It tastes great, very pleased with the result and it's lovely and clear, but when drawing it from the pressurised keg it comes out very foamy. I've probably drawn about 3 pints from it so far.

I followed the instructions for making it and primed it in the keg with 85g of soft brown sugar which I'd dissolved in about 200ml of the wort.

I used the keg as a bottling bucket as soon as I racked the primed beer into it, bottling about 50% then sealing the keg and adding a co2 bulb to compensate for the head space (as discussed in another thread on this site).

So my question is, will the foam ease off as I draw some more pints, is it a symptom of a Wherry or homebrew in general or is it my set up?

Cheers!!

[Monkeybrew]

The answer to your question is in your OP.

You primed the keg with sugar and then added a bulb of CO2

If you are a keen drinker, then the pressure in the keg will reduce fairly quickly, but I find that if I take many weeks to finish a kegged brew, the serving pressure lasts until the last drop. Serving homebrew from a keg takes a bit of practice and you generally have to pour a pint quite slowly so that you don't end up with half a pint of foamy head.

You can carefully loosen the cap on the keg to release a small amount of pressure otherwise.

Apart from overpriming, it sounds like you've had a sucessful first brew

MB

[holley_dave]

Ah, many thanks!

I primed then added co2 as the consensus on that point was that due to the fact that I would have a 5gallon keg with at least 2.5gallons of empty space due to bottling half, I would need the co2 to address the dead space.

May try releasing a bit of pressure....

[Monkeybrew]

I often bottle 10L and then keg the remaining 13L and haven't had any issues to date.

It's amazing how much CO2 those little yeasties produce in their encore whilst munching the priming sugars.

MB