Saving a failed brew

[deadbeatrocknroll]

Hi guys

I've got a Coopers Lager that is in a plastic pressure Keg, and as per it's flat as a fart (bottles are always great).
I've got 5 cornies coming this week from Norm so the barrels will be a thing of the past.

However, I was just about to pour this "failed" brew down the plughole, when I noticed it's nice and clear (has been in the keg for about a month), just flat.

Could I put this in one of my cornies this week when they arrive and carbonate it this way? My reasoning is that if it doesn't work, at least it's a pratice run on a cornie with beer that would have otherwise gone down the sink?

What do you think?

[Ditch]

Jeesuss! Fetch it over to me, before ye sling it!

It's in a keg, just flat, yeah? Well, as long as ye haven't opened the lid of the keg, or poured it off, without cracking the lid open ~ so much so as to let air glug in through the tap ~ then the chances are it'll he fine.

I like my beer (Stout, granted) flat(ter). I don't prime and use no bottled gas. But, it always manages to produce a little itself, in the BK anyway.

Just leave it well alone till ye Cornies are ready. Then shove a tube on the kegs tap and drain the lager into a Cornie. Pressurise, to taste, how ever it is ye pressurise those things.

Bettcha it'll turn out fine

[deadbeatrocknroll]

Great stuff, Ditch. I haven't taken the lid off, and only poured maybe 2-3 pints off during it's keglife to see how it was going. Then I've refilled it with a blast from a sodastream bottle.
Tastes as ok as flat lager can I guess. It was the last of my 100% brewing sugar brews before I moved over to BKE1 (which tastes bloody marvelous).

I'll give it a go!

[deadbeatrocknroll]

oh, one quick question...if I attach the tube to the tap as opposed to siphoning it out, would I remove the lid or leave it on?

[Ditch]

Oh, ye can perfectly happily sython it out, in my experience I was just erring on the side of 'advanced' ways. Personally? I suck that syphon tube and dig it straight into the bottom of my BK ~ from the FV. Don't even sanitise my lips first! Never had a problem


No. Feel free to whip the lid off and stick ye tube in there. Main thing is to remember to get the 'Out' end of the tube into the bottom of the vessel (Cornie, in your case) ye decanting to. Get it submerged ASAP. Saves it getting air in the beer.

[6470zzy]

Don't even sanitise my lips first! Never had a problem

And here I am thinking that they had invented Jameson for that very purpose

Cheers

[Ditch]

No, no, no, Ozzy Submersing ones lips in the Holy Water we call Jameson is a Blessing upon them.

And mine are truly blessed as I type, actually!