I've looked around online and tried to find a solution to my problem, but have come up short everywhere I look. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been brewing and bottling beer for several years and decided to make the leap to keg system. I bought everything I needed to get going for kegging and then was going to build a keezer, but I found a used one online that was a good price. So, I decided to buy it. I've kegged 2 different beers and haven't been able to get the kegs to hold the carbonation at all to where the beer ends up being flat. It seems okay at first, but quickly CO2 seems to go out of solution.
My setup is as follows: Keezer is set to 39 degrees (ranges in temp from 35-39 degrees)
Using a 15 lb CO2 tank that the regulator goes to a dual distributor. This goes to the two ball lock corny kegs that I have with my beer in them and then out 3/16" line to a draft tower on top of the keezer.
I used the normal chart for the volumes of CO2 that I wanted, hooked the CO2 up to the IN post on my tank, set the regulator to 11 PSI, purging the head space a couple times to get the air out, and then let it sit for two weeks. Then, I purge the head space again and hook it up to my serving pressure of 8 PSI. The carbonation might last for a week or two at best, but always seems to go flat. My tank still has plenty of CO2 in it so I don't think there is a leak. Though, I have tried spraying things down with soapy water and even submerging things. I'm at a loss.
I only drink the beer on the weekends and a keg should last me anywhere from a month and a half to two months. Should I maybe unhook the beer lines from the kegs while not in use?
The CO2 doesn't seem to be coming out of solution too badly as my beers pour rather nicely. I know that some CO2 is expected to come out of solution with having a lower serving pressure than the beer would have absorbed, but this seems excessive. Any ideas on what might be the problem?
My setup is as follows: Keezer is set to 39 degrees (ranges in temp from 35-39 degrees)
Using a 15 lb CO2 tank that the regulator goes to a dual distributor. This goes to the two ball lock corny kegs that I have with my beer in them and then out 3/16" line to a draft tower on top of the keezer.
I used the normal chart for the volumes of CO2 that I wanted, hooked the CO2 up to the IN post on my tank, set the regulator to 11 PSI, purging the head space a couple times to get the air out, and then let it sit for two weeks. Then, I purge the head space again and hook it up to my serving pressure of 8 PSI. The carbonation might last for a week or two at best, but always seems to go flat. My tank still has plenty of CO2 in it so I don't think there is a leak. Though, I have tried spraying things down with soapy water and even submerging things. I'm at a loss.
I only drink the beer on the weekends and a keg should last me anywhere from a month and a half to two months. Should I maybe unhook the beer lines from the kegs while not in use?
The CO2 doesn't seem to be coming out of solution too badly as my beers pour rather nicely. I know that some CO2 is expected to come out of solution with having a lower serving pressure than the beer would have absorbed, but this seems excessive. Any ideas on what might be the problem?