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Interestingly, I just connected my liquid hose to the out post and found that my psi is stable. I set it to 9 psi, pulled the relief valve on the regulator and noticed it went right back to 9 psi (pretty quickly) and it has been there for the past 24 hours. Now, the question is, why is this...

I'm guessing it's reached terminal temperature. Both the keg and CO2 tank have been in the freezer for a few days at 34 F (though it does go +/- 1 F). I have been adjusting it back to 9 psi and it still doesn't stay... is this normal?

Regardless if I can notice the difference between 8 and 9 psi, it's the fact that I cannot set my psi to what I want and have it stay there. I looked again today and it fell from 10 psi to 8 psi. The CO2 tank has been in the freeze for a few days now so I doubt it's still cooling down. Can...

Yes, I'm lagering. I have now connected my CO2 and plan to lager for 4 weeks so it should be carbed by then. My concern now is what I described in post #34 - getting the exact psi dialed in seems unusually tricky.

I just checked and my psi, which was set at 9 psi, is down to 8 psi. So I rotated the regulator knob to increase the pressure to 9 psi but it keeps climbing past that really slowly. Is this normal? If so, how do I know what to set it at so that the ending psi is what I want?

Interesting. My keg was pressurized to between 20-30 psi after I racked to it which was about 5 days ago. I then just connected the CO2 tank and set the pressure to 9 psi so from what you're saying the difference in pressure could be hitting that check valve and making it rattle? Is it OK to...

This is the regulator: https://www.northernbrewer.com/products/co2po-single-body-regulator I don't know what an integrated check valve is... so I'm not sure if it has one. Yes, I have the gas line connected to the regulator which is connected to the "in" post of the keg.

First time kegging and I just put on the gas and turned the regulator knob so that the psi gauge needle was as close to 9 as I could get. As I turned the knob, the needle wouldn't move smoothly but it kept jumping up. It was difficult to get it to 9 psi. Also, when it went a little above 9 to...

Thanks for the advice. I just put on the gas and turned the regulator knob so that the psi gauge needle was as close to 9 as I could get. As I turned the knob, the needle wouldn't move smoothly but it kept jumping up. It was difficult to get it to 9 psi. Also, when it went a little above 9 to...

One more question. I've reached lagering temp (34 F) and now I want to connect the CO2 and start carbing. I want 2.5 volumes of CO2 in my beer. My question is: do I set the psi for what temp the beer is now (34 F) or what the CO2 is now (60 F). The reason I ask is because I'm not sure that 9-10...

Thanks for the suggestions. I guess I don't really understand how this works. Let's say I set the pressure high so the beer absorbs a lot of CO2 then I decrease the pressure. Will the CO2 bubble out of the beer to equalize the pressure between the headspace and the beer?

Makes sense. Thanks for your comments. One other thing, right now I'm lagering at 34 F but plan to raise the temperature to 40-45 F to serve. At 34 F I need to set the psi to 9-10 to get ~2.5 oz CO2 but at 45 F I need to set it to 15 psi. If I set to 15 psi at 34 F this will over carb at 3.09 oz...

How do I know how much CO2 has been absorbed? If I don't know this, I won't know how much psi to use when I want to carb to get a desired level, e.g., 2.5 oz.

This has problems since the air temp fluctuates wildly. And I don't care about controlling the temp of the air, I care about controlling the temp of the beer. You use tape and it sticks to your keg?

Before I got a keg, I would tape a temperature probe to the fermenter with blue painters tape. It stuck well but apparently in a pressurized keg it does not! What do people use to attached their temp probe to their (corny) keg?

Thanks for the comments. Another question, I purged the headspace by filling the keg with CO2 at ~20 psi and then burped the keg a few times. After the last time, I let the pressure in the keg rise until it read ~20 psi then I disconnected the CO2 tank and started lagering. I'm wondering, is...

I plan to reconnect it in about 4 weeks and will probably set it to around 12 psi. But until then, is there any reason to keep it connected?

First time kegging in general and I'm brewing a lager. I racked it into the keg and connected the CO2 tank and pressurized it to about 20 psi. I purged the head space 3 times then disconnected the CO2 from the keg. I then put the keg in my freezer and am starting to drop it down to lager temps...

First time kegging, I broke down my keg and soaked it and all the small parts in Star San. I started putting it together to then rack my Pilsner into it to begin lagering. I went to attached my regulator to the CO2 tank and realized I don't have a large enough wrench! I'm wondering, is it OK...

I did a diacetly rest for about 5 days and didn't test any significant diacetly after. It's been fermenting for about 3 weeks so it's reached FG and there's no diacetly. My understanding is that the yeast go dormant (even if I kept at high temp) so are they even active when I lower the temp to...