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So I keg my beers and over the last 8 months that I have been doing this, I get carbonation. It turns out tasty. I really enjoy them and drink them down. I think however, that I am currently drinking all of my beers around 2vols. I say I think because I have no way of testing, and because they all are very creamy and not really sparkling. Sure, I have bubbles. Sure, there is head formation. Yeah, it is carbed.
My typical process though is this. Beer into keg -> Keg at 30psi @ room temp -> Shake keg or leave for two days -> Place keg into fridge, remove CO2 which is outside fridge and can't go inside yet (need to drill a hole in fridge)-> drop the psi to 10-15psi and when the beer pours slowly from the tap, hit it with the CO2.
Currently I don't have the ability to carb in the fridge, so this works and I am just fine with it really. I do however want to have a lighter crisp beer at 3.5-4vols and don't think that this method will allow me the ability to acheive this goal. So now I am thinking of bottle conditioning 5gals of it and kegging the other 5, but this also makes a problem because for the two cases of bottles will run me about $75. Guess I could grab a couple of cases of american sparkling wine for less, but I don't know.
Point is, does anyone else have a similar keg setup that I do and what do you do?
My typical process though is this. Beer into keg -> Keg at 30psi @ room temp -> Shake keg or leave for two days -> Place keg into fridge, remove CO2 which is outside fridge and can't go inside yet (need to drill a hole in fridge)-> drop the psi to 10-15psi and when the beer pours slowly from the tap, hit it with the CO2.
Currently I don't have the ability to carb in the fridge, so this works and I am just fine with it really. I do however want to have a lighter crisp beer at 3.5-4vols and don't think that this method will allow me the ability to acheive this goal. So now I am thinking of bottle conditioning 5gals of it and kegging the other 5, but this also makes a problem because for the two cases of bottles will run me about $75. Guess I could grab a couple of cases of american sparkling wine for less, but I don't know.
Point is, does anyone else have a similar keg setup that I do and what do you do?