To Prime or not?

[popric]

I have a King Keg top tap that I'm going to connect to a beer engine, my question is do you need to prime the barrel or not.?
The beer will be in the barrel for about a month before we use it. I've had a go using the Keg with water in it and the beer engine works well and I was just wondering if you primed it would the beer be too 'lively'?

[stevezx7r]

You may find you have a problem with creating a vaccum within the keg, unless you have a breather attached to it? Also, as the beer will be under pressure, you may find you don't need to pull a pint to have beer squiting all over the place

What I do is ferment, rack to keg to mature then remove whatever I want to a plastic polly pin (have a look in Millets for those collapsible water containers for about a fiver). I then connect the polly pin to my beer engine and pull off what I need. Any vaccum created simply collapses the bag in on itself and doesn't allow air in either

[popric]

As all the beer is going to be used on one day I thought I'd just leave the screw top off. What was bothering me was if I prime will the beer be too lively to go through the engine without having loads of foam. - thanks for your reply btw.

[WishboneBrewery]

(have a look in Millets for those collapsible water containers for about a fiver). I then connect the polly pin to my beer engine and pull off what I need. Any vaccum created simply collapses the bag in on itself and doesn't allow air in either

What a quality idea http://www.millets.co.uk/camping/campin ... 95710.html#