Burgs
Well-Known Member
I kind of messed up with my latest batch of kegged homebrew. I was trying to ensure that I'd get good head formation and carbonation, but rather than just changing one variable - I changed too many (psi, and temp). Unfortunately, my beer lines are only like 5ft so at 14-15 psi, I'm getting way more foam than I'm used to.
My previous settings were:
keezer thermostat setpoint @ 45 (often reads 43 though)
co2 regulator @ 10-12 psi
the thermostat on the freezer (not the johnson controls, the regular one): turned all the way up <-- yes, I changed this too for some reason
My new settings are:
keezer thermostat setpoint @ 43 (often reads 41)
co2 regulator @ 14-15 psi
the thermostat on the freezer I turned to halfway (to try and eliminate the differential between my thermostat setpoint and what it was actually reading, i assumed maybe when the freezer kicked on, it was running too much and cooling it down past the setpoint)
I think I was better off with my previous settings. The beer in the keg is pale ale, and the head formation and retention is fantastic, but I think that's more due to the fact that it's highly hopped and has a greater proportion of carapils in it, not due to me messing with all of this.
So, what can I do now besides just quickly drink this and reset all my keezer variables to what they were for my previous batches of beer?
If I lower the psi on my regulator and bleed everything, is my beer eventually going to flatten out? If I up the temperature setpoint and up the overall temp in the keezer, I'll just add to the foam problem, right?
Any suggestions?
My previous settings were:
keezer thermostat setpoint @ 45 (often reads 43 though)
co2 regulator @ 10-12 psi
the thermostat on the freezer (not the johnson controls, the regular one): turned all the way up <-- yes, I changed this too for some reason
My new settings are:
keezer thermostat setpoint @ 43 (often reads 41)
co2 regulator @ 14-15 psi
the thermostat on the freezer I turned to halfway (to try and eliminate the differential between my thermostat setpoint and what it was actually reading, i assumed maybe when the freezer kicked on, it was running too much and cooling it down past the setpoint)
I think I was better off with my previous settings. The beer in the keg is pale ale, and the head formation and retention is fantastic, but I think that's more due to the fact that it's highly hopped and has a greater proportion of carapils in it, not due to me messing with all of this.
So, what can I do now besides just quickly drink this and reset all my keezer variables to what they were for my previous batches of beer?
If I lower the psi on my regulator and bleed everything, is my beer eventually going to flatten out? If I up the temperature setpoint and up the overall temp in the keezer, I'll just add to the foam problem, right?
Any suggestions?