Thirstin4aburstin
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I've done a little searching but haven't found anything like this yet...
I'm a newb to kegging. I bought a kegerator last weekend in San Diego and while I was down there I picked up a 1/6 keg of Stone's Pale Ale. I put the keg along with the CO2 tank in the kegerator overnight to let it cool down to about 38 F before tapping it. After hooking up all the hoses and tapping the keg, I set the regulator at 10 psi. Later on I checked it and the pressure had gone waaaay up to about 50 or so. I purged the keg, checked all my connections, and set the flow dial as low as it would go. About an hour later I checked it and the pressure went way up again.
When I first tapped the keg there was a lot of foam, but after some time and a few more pours the head went down to about 1/2".
Does anyone know what's going on here? My kegerator can hold up to 3 corny's but for the time being I have no homebrew kegged and figured for aesthetic reasons I'd leave the CO2 tank in the fridge. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I'm a newb to kegging. I bought a kegerator last weekend in San Diego and while I was down there I picked up a 1/6 keg of Stone's Pale Ale. I put the keg along with the CO2 tank in the kegerator overnight to let it cool down to about 38 F before tapping it. After hooking up all the hoses and tapping the keg, I set the regulator at 10 psi. Later on I checked it and the pressure had gone waaaay up to about 50 or so. I purged the keg, checked all my connections, and set the flow dial as low as it would go. About an hour later I checked it and the pressure went way up again.
When I first tapped the keg there was a lot of foam, but after some time and a few more pours the head went down to about 1/2".
Does anyone know what's going on here? My kegerator can hold up to 3 corny's but for the time being I have no homebrew kegged and figured for aesthetic reasons I'd leave the CO2 tank in the fridge. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.