Bottling disaster

[jloaf]

I'm a fairly inexperienced brewer, so sorry if this is a silly question.

I was bottling my second ever brew last night of 20 litres, into 500ml bottles. I'd only managed to do 10 bottles when my crown capper broke.

I quickly sanitized a pressure barrel of 5 UK gallon capacity and put the rest in there.

I've not used a barrel before, so questions are

1. Will it be ok with that amount (about 12 litres)
2. Do I put it under pressure now or wait until it has conditioned, provided it does of course?

I had added the priming sugar into a secondary fermenter and was bottling from that.

TIA

Joe

 

[unionrdr]

I've never used a pressure barrel, but pressurizing it with some Co2 would help keep infections away. At least until you can get another capper. Let it ride until it ferments out the priming sugar, then prime again & bottle it.