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"ended up with beer spraying all over the kitchen" yep you will... but you could just try a pinch of sugar in yer glass before you pour but you will sweeten the beer doing so.
With some beers (better explanation: "some yeasts" like WLP023) the beer will become even more carbonated over a longer store but if you really want a good excuse to keg then 'why not'. Force carbonating the brew will work.
Hmm, I had to look that one up.... seems US56 was renamed US-05 back in 2007. (not sure how old the one you have is, obviously it worked okay).
Yeah it might not really get any better.
If you have the cash and really have thought through all the keg'ing related hardware requirements (mostly CO2 bottle and a good way to cool your kegged beers) then go for it.
Was the beer cold when you added the second carbonation drop?
I've added sugar successfully to undercarbonated beer. Get the beer as cold as possible, add the carbonation drop and get the lid on ASAFP. Worked for me.
There will definitely be enough active yeast to carbonate the beer. Even if you loose some beer during the process you will still be better off. Good luck!
hi. I would not keg simply because of the serious risk of oxygen pickup resulting in possible oxidation...I cannot see how you could avoid this when pouring bottles into a bulk container. As already suggested, chill hard and add more priming. Good luck!
If you get the beer REAL cold (but not frozen! ) most CO2 will remain in solution and you should only need the 1 extra drop. Only do one bottle at a time ( remove cap, drop in the sugar and recap ASAP) When finished, place bottles in an 18-20C environment to re-carbonate for a couple of weeks.
I had a batch that I bottled half into glass the other half into 1.25 PET bottles. The glass carbonated fine, but the PET bottles must have leaked the CO2 as they didn't fully carbonate. The ones in the bottles were tasting great (they also got a silver medal and won the best malt inspired beer at last years NHC) so I didn't want to waste any. They just sat under the house for a month or so whilst I was getting into kegging. Once sorted I just poured the PET bottles into the keg and force carbonated. I didn't notice any off flavours but I guess it is a risk.
Carbonation drops would be the cheapest way to go, but if that doesn't work and you do get the kegs then I'd say give force carbonation a go.
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