Wheat Beer Problem

[scarer]

I brewed a wheat beer at the beginning of Aug that I kegged in a cornie and intended to dispense via beer line and tap however, as many of you will know this can be very tricky unless you have the right size/ length of line. I thought I had the right sort of line etc but all I get is a pint of foam that works its way down to a third of a pint of flat beer.

The nett result is that I can't drink it so what are my options with regard to bottling it? The beer is quite clear now but should I shake the keg to get the yeast back in suspension then add sugar to the bottles? If so, how much sugar to get it fizzy enough for the style? Or could I bottle it clear and add some yeast grains/ sugar to each bottle?

I assume I would have to keep releasing the co2 from the keg over a few days to get the beer flat enough to bottle.

To be honest I prefer the flavour now that the yeast has dropped out, I used s23 yeast originally but only have s04 or nottingham to hand at the moment.

I don't want to faf around with beer line anymore, I've done that and it doesn't work. I just want to bottle it and free some keg space in my kegerator.

Cheers

[mysterio]

What length of beer line & diameter are you using? It's pretty easy to sort out.

Off the top of my head you'd need a meter and a half of 3/16 line. If you're using 5/16 or above, then it's useless for dispensing carbonated beer.

You could warm up the keg and gradually de-carbonate it, then syphon into bottles with priming sugar. But there would be a lot of guesswork involved.

One option is to get a few carbonator caps, pour the beer into 2L or 3L PET bottles and pressurise them.

[fivetide]

Get hold of a stein!