Crowler tips for maintaining carbonation

Honestly, don't bother.
Just pour the excess beer into a container with a hard seal, like a cap. Plastic wrap is a vapor ******er, as in gas molecules will just pass right through the stuff. If you tried to make a balloon out of plastic wrap it would deflate quickly. A screw on cap is vapor barrier, metal being the best.
It's not like the physics of gas are different because the beer is in the original can.

Keep it very cold and minimize head space to the bare minimum. And pour gently.
Again, that is all you can do without a source of CO2.
Cheers.

 

Some of y'all go to a lot of trouble to avoid having another beer.

 

Read my mind homie. 64oz would be gone in a couple hours around me.

 

Losing carbonation to what? Yes, you lose a lot during the initial pour but if you seal onto foam with no head space it has to be better than no seal. You literally said "that is not helping the other 16 ounces".

 

The last time I did that, it was on the chalkboard at the brewery as " Barrel-Aged Quinn - Quinn aged in bourbon barrels ". Nothing else. Conversation went elsewhere & I forgot to ask. Looked it up when I got home. Nothing posted. After some other beer first , and about 10-12 oz of BA Quinn, I was lightheaded. (A slightly more complex, KBS-type stout +/-) . I stopped there for the night. A few days later, I looked at the updated taplist : " Barrel-Aged Quinn - Quinn aged in bourbon barrels (18%) 95%NYS"

 

A condom would work great, but get an extra-extra-small. Tell them it's not for you.

 

...and I'm just on my first beer...

 

I tend to get crowlers in that ABV range or lower.

 

Never seen the term grumbler or growlettes. I have heard them called howlers.

 

Sans the lubricated type I presume.....

 

Is low-carbonation beer a bug or a feature with growlers and crowlers? For me, I can have a glass every day or two from a growler, finishing up after a week. I usually like the last glass of growlers as well as the first (even pils). I don't notice an effect of oxidation, but others might. Think of it as an approximation of cask ale.

 

Crowlers here come in two flavors either a 32oz can or 16/32 oz bottles. The bottlers are a no brainer they last 24 hours when capped really tight and filled properly. Trying to extend the life of a cam imo really won’t work very well, even if you can pour it into a secondary container the pouring beats out the oxygen, odds are flattening it out pretty quickly. So drinkable vs still really good is a huge leap. Really 32 oz of a normal beer should be fine, it’s like 2 3/4 beers, so unless it’s a huge stout take it down.

 

Good point. Forgot to mention new too...

 

Once the top is open. You're kind of at the mercy of volume you have left.
Set your fridge to 34ºf so your c02 has no reason to want to climb out of solution. I'd surmise most of this science related stuff would be to do with available surface volume to off gas through. If c02 has limited resources for available space to off gas. They will not. The colder you store them at the less likely they will get enthusiastic about getting out of solution.

 

You did not read the first post.

Beer has more CO2 in solution than atmosphere, and once the barrier is broken the CO2 is free to equilibrate to atmosphere pressure.
If you read the thread you will see I suggest maintaining as little as headspace as possible.
Cheers

 

I did read the post. Thanks for teaching me that sealing a jar doesn’t matter.

 

I have a Tap-A-Draft system I purchased fro one of the home brew supply stores. It has a tap which holds two CO2 cartridges. It goes with three 6 liter PET bottles. Since it has 38mm threads, it fits a 64oz. growler. I made a cradle to keep the growler on its side in the fridge. one cartridge is all I need. Every time I dispense beer, CO2 goes in. I took a week to finish one once, it stayed carbonated right to the end.

 

Now I feel bad that I was able to down 64oz Growler like it was water. And yes I know the Growler is dirty. It’s was an exchange program and they gave me a dirty one ewww. I drank it anyway lol