It's All Foam!

[DonT]

Ok, not sure what's happening here... went to take a gravity reading out of the Flex+ and it came out all foam.
The beer is a hazy fermented with Voss. I pitched it Sunday afternoon at 82F and let it go for 48h.It pushed out a full keg of starsan and I stuck a spund on it and set it to 15psi. Gravity was at 1.030, SG was 75.
I took the gravity reading before I put the spund on it and was normal. Now it comes out all foam.

 

[VikeMan]

By spunding at 15 PSI, you've partially carbonated the beer.

Then, when you took a sample, it came flying out under 15 PSI of headspace pressure, with very little resistance (no beer line), resulting in a too fast "pour" and thus foam. Or, if you only partially opened the sample valve, you "sprayed" the beer through a tiny, turbulent orifice.

 

[IslandLizard]

That! ^
Plus the beer is warm, it cannot hold onto (much) dissolved CO2, even less when the pressure drops.

 

[DonT]

By spunding at 15 PSI, you've partially carbonated the beer.

Then, when you took a sample, it came flying out under 15 PSI of headspace pressure, with very little resistance (no beer line), resulting in a too fast "pour" and thus foam. Or, if you only partially opened the sample valve, you "sprayed" the beer through a tiny, turbulent orifice.

Yeah... that makes sense. I had visions of a fermenter full of foam...lol.

Thanks for the common sense!

 

[hottpeper13]

The zwikle valves have a stainless coil and a stem long enough to do a bottom fill.