Flip Top Homebrew Bottle
Flip Top Homebrew Bottle
My keg of homebrew leaked for two weeks & has no pressure. Is it still good & how can I fix & recarbonate it?
So I brewed my first batch of beer, making a 5 gal. batch of Weizenbier. I put 3 gal. in a small keg and put the other 2 gallons in flip top bottles. I used 1/2 cup of priming sugar for the whole batch and let it carbonate for 2 weeks. After exactly 2 weeks we opened some bottles and they came out AWESOME. The taste was good & crisp with no odd aftertastes. All in all, a great first try. But my 3 gal. keg apparently had a leak at the top. I used a new O ring kit but didn't have a good lube for it and had to resort to cooking oil for a seal (crappy idea, I know). I also didn't have any nickels to put under the stoppers, and so had a leak. But is there any way to save it? Did it oxygenate during the leaking process? Could I hit it with a little CO2 and remove the lid, re-grease the seal with a better lube, use some nickels to give it a tighter seal, and then hit it with CO2 again to pressurize? It was so good and I was so happy and want some more. Please help!!!
I would say you know what to do.
Whether it has oxidised I can not say without a sample. The classic oxidation is detected as wet paper/cardboard falvor. It is literally as simple as chewing on paper (but in the beer the flavor can be very subtle) to know the flavor caused by beer oxidation. A classic commercial example of an oxidised beer is New Castle Brown.
Was there enough yeast to start a mild carbonationg ferment in the keg?
Yes.
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In NO way is your yeast going to produce methyl alcohol. It is not a concern for you ever when brewing beer.
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I would say, push it over to a new keg and either kraeusen it with a new batch or force CO2 into it with a beer corbonation stone.
You can get a test pressure guage for you kegs. About $20-30 from a good suppler. Put it on and pressurize your keg. Take readings for a few hours or days to track its ability to hold pressure.
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