DrinksWellWithOthers
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Let me preface this by saying this is the first beer I've kegged and its all very new to me. The keg has been sitting in the refrigerator and hooked up to the gas for just about 4 weeks now. I'm using a 5lb tank, dual regulator, and a cobra tap with about 5 ft of line.
After I kegged the beer, I did as my LHBS instructed and cranked up the psi to 25 for a couple days, purged and turned down the psi to about 12. For two weeks I'd pull a pint to see how it was coming but it was still a little flat so I pulled out the keg and rolled it around (I read somewhere that sometimes the keg needs to be shaken a little to dissolve the CO2) and put it back in the fridge waited patiently. For the past week I've been sampling some more and it foams up when I pour and there isn't much CO2 bubbles in solution. So I turned the psi down to 6-8 psi and the beer has less foam but still doesn't have much CO2 in solution. So now I'm thinking either the CO2 isn't dissolved into the beer or it's coming out of solution when I pour but I can't which, why, and how to fix it!
Now I think I've messed with the regulator and keg so much that I don't what to do and all I want is carbonated beer!
I brought a growler to a brew day this past weekend that I filled with a bottling wand inserted into the cobra tap at 2 or 3psi. The beer was only lightly carbonated but its the best I've gotten so far and it had minimal foaming when I filled it. Unfortunately the remaining 1/3 of the growler ended up flat later that night. I tried filling a couple bottles using BMBF I got the same results.
Last night I tightened up everything from the regulator to hose clamps and I sprayed star stan on all the posts and keg lid to see if there were any leaks but I couldn't find any. I cranked it up to 30 psi, I don't even know why but nothing else seems to be working so I figured I'd let it sit like that for a bit.
Please help me carb my beer! I at least want to be able to pour one proper pint before this keg is kicked.
Thanks in advance.
After I kegged the beer, I did as my LHBS instructed and cranked up the psi to 25 for a couple days, purged and turned down the psi to about 12. For two weeks I'd pull a pint to see how it was coming but it was still a little flat so I pulled out the keg and rolled it around (I read somewhere that sometimes the keg needs to be shaken a little to dissolve the CO2) and put it back in the fridge waited patiently. For the past week I've been sampling some more and it foams up when I pour and there isn't much CO2 bubbles in solution. So I turned the psi down to 6-8 psi and the beer has less foam but still doesn't have much CO2 in solution. So now I'm thinking either the CO2 isn't dissolved into the beer or it's coming out of solution when I pour but I can't which, why, and how to fix it!
Now I think I've messed with the regulator and keg so much that I don't what to do and all I want is carbonated beer!
I brought a growler to a brew day this past weekend that I filled with a bottling wand inserted into the cobra tap at 2 or 3psi. The beer was only lightly carbonated but its the best I've gotten so far and it had minimal foaming when I filled it. Unfortunately the remaining 1/3 of the growler ended up flat later that night. I tried filling a couple bottles using BMBF I got the same results.
Last night I tightened up everything from the regulator to hose clamps and I sprayed star stan on all the posts and keg lid to see if there were any leaks but I couldn't find any. I cranked it up to 30 psi, I don't even know why but nothing else seems to be working so I figured I'd let it sit like that for a bit.
Please help me carb my beer! I at least want to be able to pour one proper pint before this keg is kicked.
Thanks in advance.