Clear as mud - serving cask within hours?

[yashicamat]

In a few months time, I need to be putting on a decent quantity of beer (36 pints) on draught . . . but the catch is, it will need to be dispensed only hours after it has travelled 2 hours in a car!

I don't want to go down the route of bottles (too much faff) and would preferably avoid beer boxes (not enough condition). The beer style will be a bitter and brewed with S-04 yeast, using kieselsol as an aux fining. This is my thoughts, just wanted a second opinion;

- Let the beer drop fairly clear in the FV (with S-04 this won't be hard!), but not completely clear, then rack into a pin with a small quantity of priming sugar and kieselsol finings. Allow to condition for a week. Keep in the right orientation as much as possible during the journey and manoeuvre into place with minimal disturbance. Rest for an hour, vent, tap and rest for a further hour or so until serving. My thoughts are that with minimising the quantity of yeast into the cask, combing that with kieselsol and the flocculant nature of SO-4 would at worst render a hazy pint and at best a clear one, likely to be clear 24 hours later?

What do people reckon - feasible?

My other alternative is to condition in the cask as usual, then rack into a second cask immediately before leaving, thereby carrying a 'bright' cask which should be clear but also carry some of the condition still, although I suspect it will lose some in the racking process.

thanks and any thoughts/advice are appreciated!

[Kyle_T]

Just rack into a new cask before leaving and carry it bright.

[joe1002]

Just rack into a new cask before leaving and carry it bright.

Yep, that's what I would do too.

If you are careful you shouldn't loose too much carbonation, particularly as you will be serving fairly soon after.

[smuggles]

I agree, I think racking before traveling is your best bet.

I've tried what you're suggesting a few times (except using gelatin instead of kieselsol), including crash cooling in both the FV and cask, and at best I've still had slightly hazy beer even after 24 hours.

[robbarwell]

Rack it bright. Then serve through Beer engine with a tight sparkler

[gobuchul]

You could try one of these https://www.caskwidge.com/