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Thanks to all. I put the keg at 30# for 24hr and reduced to 20# for 24hr and then purged and set to my usual pressure. The beer was perfectly carbonated for the party.

Thanks to all for the advice. It's a basic pale ale. I've used the keg several times before with no problems. I connected several different co2 lines and none of them worked. I then plugged it into the "beer out" side of the keg and could hear it pushing co2 through the dip tube, so I knew...

I have a party in 40 hours. I kegged a batch of beer a week ago and had planned to let it carbonate for a little over a week before the party. I just discovered a faulty poppet valve on the keg and the beer has no carbonation. I'm not sure what the problem is other than maybe the spring for...

It's a 10gal rubbermaid beverage cooler from Home Depot. I used 4.5 gallons to calibrate.

When calibrating a mashtun in Beertools Pro, should it be done with water only or during an actual mash. The reason I ask is that I had the following situation last weekend while brewing. The recipe called for a protein rest at 122deg. I poured the strike water at the calculated...

Brewed last Saturday with Amarillo (LHB had no Centennial on hand) +5.5gal = 1295

Thanks for the good responses. I'm going to go ahead an bottle it tonight.

It smells like a high alcohol beer so I guess it passes that test. I'll sanitize my syphon and draw a bit out and see how it tastes.

I have a five gallon batch of a Grand Cru style beer that has been in primary for about 6 months. The water has been gone from the airlock for about 3 months but it doesn't appear to have impacted the beer. There is what appears to be residual krausen left on about 25% of the surface (very...