Urgent Advice Needed

[damohonda]

Today, on a plastic king keg, my tap became loose and I lost some gas whilst testing my newly primed beer. I managed to tighten it and then I screwed my gas cylinder into the top in order to re-pressurise and the nut that holds the connection in place was not tight enough and it fell off into the brew thus letting all the gas out. I have another top which I just put on.

However what do I do now? I gather I have a few options.

Do I syphon the lot into my bucket, re-add sugar, remove the nut out of the barrel/brew as it might affect the taste, fix all the all the screws and then put it all back? (in essence re-prime)

Should I leave it as is, and add gas when necessary? (I'm a bit worried about the Nut though, could it affect the taste?)

Should I add more sugar to this brew ?

 

[Leon103]

What material is th4 nut made from?

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

Don't Panic; it'll be fine. Leave the nut in there; it won't affect the beer in any way - any nut on a pressure barrel will be an inert material.
Don't add more priming sugar; just re-seal the keg and re-pressurise with your cylinder. Job done

If you're not short of CO2, then it might be worth purging the headspace of the barrel to get rid of any air that got in while the barrel was open: just pressurise and then release the lid two or three times to do this.

 

[kelper]

Brass is not inert!