Ready to Keg

Very excited, i brewed an AHS summit IPA and today it hit target FG. I plan to keg on Saturday . I'm cleaning the lines etc today. I've never kegged before and had a few questions, maybe even instruction. How does kegging vs bottling work in terms of conditioning the beer? For instance, after a couple weeks in the bottle the brew tastes much better than when it was bottled. Will 3-4 days in the keg do the same thing?

I let my beer sit at serving psi in the fridge for a week before drinking it. It does seem to taste beer after 2 weeks though.

gotcha, So what is carbonating psi vs serving psi?

It is different per style. I use this calculator.

http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/carbonation.html?12854311#tag

I was told 30 carbing 5-10 to serve? I just racked my first batch ever to keg lastnight and set it to 30 because I remember somebody saying that there.

For me there is no difference between Carbonating and Serving psi. I just set it to serving psi and wait a week.

So you keep the fridge on during carbonating? I'm thinking a week at 42 degrees at 15 psi, then down to 12 for serving

a balanced system will use the same psi to carb as it is to serve. You can burst carb faster with the higher pressure, but the beer benefits from waiting anyway. I run 11psi at 40°. Let sit 1.5-2 weeks before I start pulling beer.
PSI depends on temp, volumes you're going for and your line length goes off those two once figured out.

unfnole23 said:

So you keep the fridge on during carbonating? I'm thinking a week at 42 degrees at 15 psi, then down to 12 for serving

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Yep my keg is in the fridge in the kitchen along with the food.

Think of you keg like a crock pot....set it and forget it...1.5-2 weeks

j1laskey said:

Think of you keg like a crock pot....set it and forget it...1.5-2 weeks

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Next batch I am going to do that, since I have nothing in the bottle, and nothing on tap I am going to rush this one along a bit. What I really need I think is a 3rd keg to have a beer conditioning in the closet while I kill one of the two others on tap.