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removing kegs after carbonated

Discussion in 'Bottling/Kegging' started by captainL, Jun 11, 2012.

 

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    captainL

    Well-Known Member

    Posted Jun 11, 2012
    I have two kegs in a kegerator. Both carbed up. I want to remove them so I can use the kegerator with my temp controller for my next batch of beer. I'll take them out and put them in my wine cellar at 65 degrees for 1 week. Will this damage anything??? I figure it would be fine for a week during primary fermentation, at that point I could move the fermentor into the cellar to finish off and put the kegs back in.

    Then I started thinking what would happen if I forced carbed 2 kegs at different co2 level's seperately and then connected them both back up to a single regulator. Could I leave the co2 pressure set lower, or will the co2 from the higher carbonated beer decrease and/or create back pressure?? Once a beer is carbonated, is it necessary to keep pressure on it other than for serving pressure?

    I'm just trying to figure out if I can get away with this without a seperate fermentation chamber. I'm eyeing doing my first lager and also a highly carbonated hefenweizen.

    thoughts???

    thanks.
     
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    Yooper

    Ale's What Cures You! Staff Member  

    Posted Jun 11, 2012
    Removing them from the gas and storing is fine.

    Taking the co2 off of the keg (or reducing the psi going to the keg)while serving will mean that the beer will gradually go flat, though.

    Think of a keg like a big bottle. As long as it's not open (sealed up), the beer will be fine. But once opened, if the gas replacing the beer in the headspace is a lower pressure, the beer will gradually go flat (or at least flat-er, to the psi you have it at). I hope that makes sense!
     
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