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Kegged Beer Conudrum
A friend of mine has come to posse a full sized keg stout which has been tapped with a pump tap. We want to keep the beer from spoiling, and since it's been tapped with a pump tap and is now semi oxidized and will soon go bad if left as is. All he has is a pick-nick pump, we'd like to either bottle what is left or put into some korny kegs to try and save it, but don't want to use the pick-nick pump for transfer for fear of oxidizing it even more in the process. Is there anyway you can siphon beer from a Sanke keg or get it out some other way without oxidizing it further, and without using a CO2 tap?
Drinking it all within the next couple days is an awesome option, but neither of us have the time right now 
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Thanks!
-guy
If you were to try to siphon the beer from the keg you'd have to remove the snap ring and then the spear but in the process I htink you'd end up shooting beer in your face and degassing whatever beer is left in the keg. And without CO2 to push the beer then the beer will become oxidized from the hand pump. I don't know how long it'll take though.
However if you find a way to manage this I'd like to hear how you did it.
Oxidation will not reverse itself, so anything left in the keg that has already been exposed is done. Transferring to something else will not minimize this, it may enhance it. My suggestion is just keep drinking off the keg. I do not think it will oxidize from the pump, but it is also not unlikely. Your best bet is just keep it there and serve it off his picnic tap.
Hmm what if I were to release the pressure from the keg using the pick-nick tap (turning it upside down and relieving pressure), then taking it apart, siphoning into korny keg, then recarbonate?
I'd just focus on getting CO2 into the existing keg rather than transferring. Like thirsty said, if its showing signs of oxidation it will only get worse, even if you get CO2 in there. SO, I say get your homebrew CO2 setup hooked up to the gas in of the sanke keg. And then have a poker night in a couple days as the beer is turning regardless.
I'd do that but I don't have a co2 tap for sanke kegs, all that's available for it at the moment is a pump tap
Unless you can gas a sanke keg with corny keg fittings.
GuyNMT wrote:
Unless you can gas a sanke keg with corny keg fittings.
That is why I put a QD inline on a beverage line and a gas line. I can disconnect the ball lock fittings, and snap on a sanke coupler, then just serve off the sanke with the same setup.
Drink it as fast as you can!
Get on craigslist, they always seem to have someone trying to sell off a sanke tap that they forgot to return.
Or, I've got a couple that I never use. You want one?
By now I am sure its a keg of cardboard.
Yup, got a point there.
Hahaha I haven't had a chance to try any of it since saturday, too busy with school, but I'm sure the friend who has it is going to drink it. Thirsty college kids will drink anything 
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