Douglefish
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So I brewed a 10 gallon batch of APA on Sunday. All in all things went pretty well. This is my second batch of pressurized fermentation, and have been reading the thread on it which is awesome. Anyway
Day 1, Irish Red that I brewed was chugging along as expected but the pressure gauge still read 0
Day 2, Still read 0 in the morning which I though was really weird
This evening I went down it it was still at 0 so i started searching around and realized that I never put the sanke lever down and all the pressure was trapped inside the keg. I immediately put the lever down and the picnic tap turned into a foam fountain and had to pinch the line to make it stop.
Bottom line is that the gauge still read over 60 PSI after I let a lot of pressure out of it. At what point would this have become a bomb?
Also, it's going to be interesting to see if the beer turns out OK. Supposedly pressures over 14 PSI produce diacetyl and more green apple? If so this should turn out terrible. Also I may have killed all the yeast with the pressure drop. Anyway, could make for a very interesting experiment. If people are interested I'll update the thread with the results. I pull a sample that is very carbonated at the moment for a gravity reading.
Day 1, Irish Red that I brewed was chugging along as expected but the pressure gauge still read 0
Day 2, Still read 0 in the morning which I though was really weird
This evening I went down it it was still at 0 so i started searching around and realized that I never put the sanke lever down and all the pressure was trapped inside the keg. I immediately put the lever down and the picnic tap turned into a foam fountain and had to pinch the line to make it stop.
Bottom line is that the gauge still read over 60 PSI after I let a lot of pressure out of it. At what point would this have become a bomb?
Also, it's going to be interesting to see if the beer turns out OK. Supposedly pressures over 14 PSI produce diacetyl and more green apple? If so this should turn out terrible. Also I may have killed all the yeast with the pressure drop. Anyway, could make for a very interesting experiment. If people are interested I'll update the thread with the results. I pull a sample that is very carbonated at the moment for a gravity reading.