rohovie
Active Member
Hey Everyone,
I'm fairly new to kegging, just kegged my second batch. Both batches are crazy foamy, after my first batch, I decided to switch out my 5' 3/16" beer line to a 20' line. The longer hose made very little improvement and am now stumped about why this is happening.
I am using a pin lock corny keg and have it cooled to about 34-35 degrees. Both beer lines are vinyl tubing with a picnic tap.
After fermentation, I moved the beer to the keg and I forced carbed both batched at about 30 psi for 24 hours, purged the keg, then set it at about 10 psi. The first batch I did the initial 30 psi carb through the liquid connect to get the gas to the bottom of the keg and through the beer, the second batch I hooked up the gas to the gas connect for the carbing (thought the first one might be over carbed so I tried something different).
When I tried to pour the beer at 10 psi with the 5' line, the beer/foam came flying out like a fire hose, the pour was 100% foam which settled down to about 20% beer when the foam disappears. When poured at 10 psi with the 20' line, it was still all foam but didn't pour out as fast.
I went through the first keg by pouring the beer into a jug at 10 psi then into a glass when settled down, wasn't ideal. I'm starting to go through the second keg by purging the air from the keg, turning the regulator right down to basically 0 psi (doesn't even register on the gauge) then pouring at that pressure, then bumping back to 10 psi. It pours at this pressure with a nice head, but doing this is also not very ideal.
I'm looking at suggestions or advise on how to balance my system to be able to pour at around 10 psi. Can it be a bad regulator? Bad gas (I bought my kegerator used with old couple year old gas in it that I'm trying to get through)? Anything else it can be? Am I carbing wrong?
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Mike
I'm fairly new to kegging, just kegged my second batch. Both batches are crazy foamy, after my first batch, I decided to switch out my 5' 3/16" beer line to a 20' line. The longer hose made very little improvement and am now stumped about why this is happening.
I am using a pin lock corny keg and have it cooled to about 34-35 degrees. Both beer lines are vinyl tubing with a picnic tap.
After fermentation, I moved the beer to the keg and I forced carbed both batched at about 30 psi for 24 hours, purged the keg, then set it at about 10 psi. The first batch I did the initial 30 psi carb through the liquid connect to get the gas to the bottom of the keg and through the beer, the second batch I hooked up the gas to the gas connect for the carbing (thought the first one might be over carbed so I tried something different).
When I tried to pour the beer at 10 psi with the 5' line, the beer/foam came flying out like a fire hose, the pour was 100% foam which settled down to about 20% beer when the foam disappears. When poured at 10 psi with the 20' line, it was still all foam but didn't pour out as fast.
I went through the first keg by pouring the beer into a jug at 10 psi then into a glass when settled down, wasn't ideal. I'm starting to go through the second keg by purging the air from the keg, turning the regulator right down to basically 0 psi (doesn't even register on the gauge) then pouring at that pressure, then bumping back to 10 psi. It pours at this pressure with a nice head, but doing this is also not very ideal.
I'm looking at suggestions or advise on how to balance my system to be able to pour at around 10 psi. Can it be a bad regulator? Bad gas (I bought my kegerator used with old couple year old gas in it that I'm trying to get through)? Anything else it can be? Am I carbing wrong?
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Mike