Bottling vs. kegging

[denny]

@Philbrew

@coolman26

I’m getting ready to try half of my batches w priming and CO2. I rarely force carbonate to get my beer ready faster. The oxygen in the CO2 definitely oxidizes the beer over time. I’m going to keg condition all of my Belgians and Saison beers from now on. Anything that is long term will get keg conditioned or bottled from the keg with primed wort.

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I know that agitating beer while carbonating can lead to temporarily increased carbonic acid which can be undesirable, but had no idea introducing CO2 into a purged vessel could cause oxidation.  Can you point us in the direction of any articles or other documents describing how that works?

Folks here have reported that commercially available CO2 is not 100% pure.  The small amount of O2 can cause staling over the long term.

“Can” being the key word there.  Many people have never had that problem with commercial CO2.