So I kegged a "La Croix" for my wife last night (five gallons of water and a cut-up orange, about as simple as it gets). It worked pretty well, but now I have a question about carbonating and serving it. I chilled the keg, hit it with 22psi, and shook the crap out of it. That should get me to 3.25 volumes of CO2 which I've read should be a good range for a soda.
I tasted it after getting home from work this afternoon and it tasted pretty good. Carbonation level seemed just right. It has room for improvement on balancing the orange flavor, but that's a different topic. My problem is that I cannot seem to get my cobra/picnic faucet to stop spraying everywhere when it's attached. I've cranked down on the screw cap with little improvement. I tried turning down the pressure to 11psi and it served great, but when I came back to it about an hour later, it was almost flat. It would seem that 22psi is just too far outside the working pressure of this faucet.
What should I do? Do I have to get another faucet? How do you guys serve soda?
I tasted it after getting home from work this afternoon and it tasted pretty good. Carbonation level seemed just right. It has room for improvement on balancing the orange flavor, but that's a different topic. My problem is that I cannot seem to get my cobra/picnic faucet to stop spraying everywhere when it's attached. I've cranked down on the screw cap with little improvement. I tried turning down the pressure to 11psi and it served great, but when I came back to it about an hour later, it was almost flat. It would seem that 22psi is just too far outside the working pressure of this faucet.
What should I do? Do I have to get another faucet? How do you guys serve soda?