erockomania
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morebeer.com/view_product/18212//Carbonating_Keg_Lid
Has anybody used these? Thoughts?
Has anybody used these? Thoughts?
that looks really cool, too bad they don't have it for pin-locks
Rather than either spending $60 or something on a lid or messing with jacking pressure up and down (I see posts practically everyday by people with foaming or other issues as a result). Drop about $17 and get a CO2 stone and a 2' piece of hose. Attach one end of the hose to your gas IN tube, the stone to the other. Stone sill sit on the bottom of the keg, you can carb your beer in 48 hours at serving pressure. No issues, ZERO chance of over carbonation. Simplest method to carbonate beer quickly.
btw, force carbing never gets me those nice tiny bubbles. The idea of this method and using a stone in general is for the nice tiny bubbles like the pros get... no?
Yooper said:Force carbing is force carbing- dissolving co2 into beer. The size of the bubbles won't change.
I get nice tiny bubbles in my beer in the keg- but it's because the c02 is fully dissolved, and I have nice long serving lines that don't "knock" the co2 out of suspension on the way to the glass.
This is exactly what I was thinking too, but fussing with getting the tube off after it's carbonated was what I was worried about. Leave the tube on?
Most people start with a foot per PSI of serving pressure and go down from there until they are happy with the pour.
bwarbiany said:Really? Is that for 3/16" or 1/4" line? I always understood the general rule was 5' for 3/16" line.
Really? Is that for 3/16" or 1/4" line? I always understood the general rule was 5' for 3/16" line.
The rule I've always gone with is one foot of 3/16" ID hose per one psi of CO2 the keg/brew is on. You can differ slightly such as 10' of line under 12 psi but I wouldn't use just 5' of line. You're typically better off with longer lines than shorter lines. Only downside to longer lines would be a slower pour. Downside of shorter lines is far too much foam in the glass.
Absolutely leave it on, I have them installed in all of my serving kegs and they stay there.
When cleaning the keg, you will (depending on your cleaning method) have enough solution (PBW, etc.) to either cover the stone or, perhaps even most of the tube. Let it soak a while, as most people do with their keg anyway. Put the lid on and slosh the keg around, as you are probably already doing, to make sure any areas not already covered with solution get hit. After you dump the cleaning solution, as part of your rinse, pull the stone out of the keg (you can leave hose attached), connect the gas and run rinse water over the stone until water runs clean. This will clean the stone thoroughly. Continue to sanitizing. Make sure stone gets covered with santi, make sure stone gets submerged. You may want to hit it with the gas again to drive the little bit of sanitizer that is in the stone out. I would do this with iodophor or PAA, but if you use StarSan it may not be necessary. That's it. I would say it ads MAX 5 minutes to my keg cleaning time.
This seems really intriguing... 2 questions: 1) Does it matter whether you use a 2 micron or .5 micron stone? 2) What kind of hose do you use?
I might have to set up a keg like this as a test, just to see how well it works. Almost sounds too good to be true.
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