force carbonating after bottle conditioning

[hoppyscotty]

Bottled a batch of TT Landlord clone a few weeks ago. I was about 4 or 5 bottles into it before realising I hadn't batch primed, so ceased bottling and batch primed the remaining part of the batch. A few weeks on an the carbonated beer is a success but a flat one wasn't so great. I am thinking about decanting the flat ones into my 5 litre mini-keg and force carbonating for a few days before enjoying. Will this work? Is this a good idea?

Thanks.

 

[StoutWolf]

I did that last weekend to some bottles that had failed to prime. Aiming to minimise oxidation as far as possible, I decanted carefully into a jug then onwards to a 5l jug.
Finally siphoned the ~5l into the mini keg and purged the headspace a couple of times before setting and forgetting for a week. Tapped it last night and it's markedly better than the flat beer was!

 

[hoppyscotty]

That's promising. Thanks, will give it a go. I was thinking a funnel attached to my bottling wand so I can pour very gently into the funnel and fill the bottling wand and pour slowly into the funnel avoiding splashing and agitation as it goes Ito the keg, then purge. it's only a few bottles worth so wont hang around.

 

[BrewMeHappy]

If you are using PET bottles, you could get a carbonation cap like this and just carb them when you want to drink them.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CZBQ2FH/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_0TY3VQ5F26PJ9BHPMN4W?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

 

[hoppyscotty]

In glass bottles unfortunately, but it sounds like there is nothing wrong with the process of carbonating after conditioning so will give it a go.

 

[Darren Jeory]

If you are using PET bottles, you could get a carbonation cap like this and just carb them when you want to drink them.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CZBQ2FH/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_0TY3VQ5F26PJ9BHPMN4W?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Never used one...does it connect to a co2 cylinder or those mini cannisters that you use in a soda syphon?

 

[Darren Jeory]

In glass bottles unfortunately, but it sounds like there is nothing wrong with the process of carbonating after conditioning so will give it a go.

Or you can get the coopers drops that you pop in the bottles then re-cap?

 

[BrewMeHappy]

It connects to my corny CO2 cylinder gas line using a ball lock disconnector.