I have done both of those! Fortunately I noticed immediately. I was carbonating my first keg and wondered why it was glurgling. Oops! Although that gave me an idea. When you're trying to speed up carbonating you shake the keg to get the gas more surface area to work on. Why not bubble the gas up...
Sorry if I was unclear: I bought 4 new better bottles to do secondaries for my beer and cider. I meant to order 5 gal bottles but bought 6 gal ones instead.
With the 6 gal ones be OK for secondary use for my beer and cider if I give them a blast of co2 or will the extra air space be too much?
I ended up with a lot of 6 gallon better bottles I intended to use for secondary fermentation.. I guess that's what I get for placing orders after drinking a few too many homebrews. :drunk:
Will I be alright if I rack into the 6 gal jugs and then give a blast of CO2 off my keg gas system, or...
20 gallons of cider. 4 batches:
5 gal apple juice + 8 oz pomegranate molasses + Safbrew S-33
5 gal apple juice + 16 oz Belgian Candi sugar + Safale S-04
5 gal apple juice + 12 oz agave nectar + WL007
5 gal apple juice + 2 lb brown sugar + WL007 to be dry hopped with Cascade
I've fermented worse!
That's very little headroom. In case your yeast gets rambunctious you might want to put that over some tile or something you don't mind getting sticky juice all over.