JaimesBeam
Active Member
I've been trying to force carbonate some soda and hard cider.
All I get is a bunch of foam and a flat soda. I've tried six ways
to sunday! I've chilled everything , shaken it up, let it settle,
and I alway end up with flat soda/cider. I've tried several times
with a Counter-Pressure Bottler; a nice one, all stainless, with a
single two way valve, and a pressure-relief valve (I can't remember
where I bought it, xxxBrewer.com)
When I try bottling, sometimes the soda/cider foams up in the bottle,
sometimes it doesn't; when I open the flip-top bottles to drink, it's
flat!
This is with comparatively low CO2 pressure 10-20 psi, using a pinlock
soda keg in a cold room (? 40F) When I try to tap the soda out of the keg
it just foams up in the glass, and then it's flat!
One person said to carbonate the soda at a high pressure up to 40 PSI,
then to bottle it at a low pressure <10 PSI, just enough to move the
soda into the bottle. I don't understand how this is supposed to work.
The low pressure won't pressurize the bottles, or keep it from foaming
up in the bottles. It will be the high CO2 pressure in the soda pushing
the soda into the bottles, gradually exhausting the CO2 in the soda, and
the last bottles will be flat anyway.
Can anyone explain this to me, or should I give up on it!!!
Thanks, JaimesBeam
All I get is a bunch of foam and a flat soda. I've tried six ways
to sunday! I've chilled everything , shaken it up, let it settle,
and I alway end up with flat soda/cider. I've tried several times
with a Counter-Pressure Bottler; a nice one, all stainless, with a
single two way valve, and a pressure-relief valve (I can't remember
where I bought it, xxxBrewer.com)
When I try bottling, sometimes the soda/cider foams up in the bottle,
sometimes it doesn't; when I open the flip-top bottles to drink, it's
flat!
This is with comparatively low CO2 pressure 10-20 psi, using a pinlock
soda keg in a cold room (? 40F) When I try to tap the soda out of the keg
it just foams up in the glass, and then it's flat!
One person said to carbonate the soda at a high pressure up to 40 PSI,
then to bottle it at a low pressure <10 PSI, just enough to move the
soda into the bottle. I don't understand how this is supposed to work.
The low pressure won't pressurize the bottles, or keep it from foaming
up in the bottles. It will be the high CO2 pressure in the soda pushing
the soda into the bottles, gradually exhausting the CO2 in the soda, and
the last bottles will be flat anyway.
Can anyone explain this to me, or should I give up on it!!!
Thanks, JaimesBeam