bgruis
Well-Known Member
Ok...forgive me for beating a horse that was dead a LONG time ago...but I really wanted to chime in here.
I have always force carbed my keg beer. For me it works well. However I continue to find that no matter how much I push the beer in the first couple days...the beer really dosent come in to its own until after about 5 days.
I cold crash...then rack to the keg...force carb at 30 psi for a bit then drop to serving temperature...
Just my experience, and more than anything, advice to other impatient brewers out there.
My next equipment upgrade will be an additional CO2 system for carbing only. I routinely go through a 5 gallon keg per week (lots of thirsty friends
..and I brew 5 gallons a week. The grand plan is to rotate the freshly finished beer to a keg, put it on gas (the chart says roughly 18-20 psi) @ 50 degrees (my cellar's ambient temp) and let it sit on the gas for a week. So come next Sunday another 5 gallons will be happily gassed and waiting for papa .
The other advantage of a system like this is that I wont irritate the other beers in my kegerator (as I only have a single regulator ...when force carbing it screws with the carb level of the other kegs).
Cheers from sunny Johnstown Colorado
I have always force carbed my keg beer. For me it works well. However I continue to find that no matter how much I push the beer in the first couple days...the beer really dosent come in to its own until after about 5 days.
I cold crash...then rack to the keg...force carb at 30 psi for a bit then drop to serving temperature...
Just my experience, and more than anything, advice to other impatient brewers out there.
My next equipment upgrade will be an additional CO2 system for carbing only. I routinely go through a 5 gallon keg per week (lots of thirsty friends
..and I brew 5 gallons a week. The grand plan is to rotate the freshly finished beer to a keg, put it on gas (the chart says roughly 18-20 psi) @ 50 degrees (my cellar's ambient temp) and let it sit on the gas for a week. So come next Sunday another 5 gallons will be happily gassed and waiting for papa .The other advantage of a system like this is that I wont irritate the other beers in my kegerator (as I only have a single regulator ...when force carbing it screws with the carb level of the other kegs).
Cheers from sunny Johnstown Colorado
