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yes... the gas is on and there is pressure. if i pull the pressure release i can hear it fill back up. both kegs connected to same C02 bottle, same regulator, same psi, etc. And i agree that porters/stouts may have less carbonation or head but this is not even close to appropriate (but it...

This is both beers I have kegged right now, the porter I'm having the issue with obviously on the right. The left is a pale I burst carbed four days ago. Both were poured right down the middle at the same flow control setting, and here they other about 15 seconds later. They're connected to the...

Yeah this happened with EdWort's Robust Porter and Yooper's Oatmeal Stout, both beers that should have plenty of head-retaining properties. The confusing thing is that the beers were basically exactly how I wanted them head-wise, and then declined. I could be wrong that the carbonation itself...

I'm having a weird problem with two of the beers I've recently kegged. After burst carbonating for a couple days they seem to pour fine, nice head, nicely carbonated, I'm happy! Then they sit till the next weekend and suddenly start pouring with ZERO head, or there's a millimeter and it...

Anyone have issues with head retention on this beer? Assuming it's something about my process... Been in the keg a few weeks at 12 psi, well carbonated (if anything over-carbonated for a porter..), pours fine, nice sized head with the perlick flow controls, but it just basically evaporates...

The fit of the copper tubing inside the hole you make is so tight it barely budges. I used 1/2 inch copper for each line (because my home depot didn't have 1 inch for sale) and a 1-1/4 inch hole. the two pipes fit through pretty snugly so that you'd have to yank on them to move them down. At...

Just built this last night based on all the info in this thread... Thanks to those who made walkthroughs

Yeah wicked weed has some great stuff and they're starting to distribute more widely lately as well.

Lenny Boy sounds like they have some interesting stuff on tap, never been there though.

woops nevermind that's asheville. NoDa and birdsong are good.

wicked weed

Makes sense, thanks for the response! Have had real good luck on a couple quick grain-to-glass beers like hefeweizens and blondes, now i know the same time-frame is pushing it for an IPA. I'll try to keep my hands off it for a bit and see how it improves.

Do most of yall that have brewed this really keep it in primary fermenter for four weeks as the OP recommends? I kegged this after 2 weeks primary plus a few days cold crashing, and now that it's nice and carbonated it tastes great but definitely still has a bit of "yeasty" aroma/flavor...

I'm thinking my scale must have been off... I actually ended up OVERSHOOTING the gravity at 1.060 for about 83% efficiency. Weird! From one extreme to the other. I'm trying this with Yeast Bay's midwestern ale AKA the Bell's yeast. Excited to see how it turns out.

All set to mash in on this and just as a check I weighed out my grains bought+crushed from LHBS and it's a full pound short. This is on a 3.5 gal batch, so that's like 15% short... and who knows which grain is missing, either the 2-row or the vienna or some combination. So steamed. Will have...

Haha i see, I was thinking of just putting it on the ground on its side and rolling it back and forth with my foot while I sit on the couch and watch tv.

Thanks for this response, that makes a lot of sense to me. Just out of curiosity, in your experience how much shaking does the second method entail?

It sounds like there's a lot that goes into it, and someone more knowledgeable can chime in on that, but i would point out the three beers i've kegged so far with far different results have each been between 4.2 - 5.0 % ABV, so not a big difference.

Mine are five foot lines. I bought my kegging setup before I read that having 10 foot lines solves many a problem. What gets me is the first beer i kegged was as perfect as I could ask for like 10 hours later... so I know it can be done. It's just confusing that with the same exact method...

Interesting. I suppose if "set and forget" at 12 psi works for all your beers given enough time, I'm interested in a burst carb method that works reasonably well for most beers, as the poster above suggests with his method of 30 psi for 48 hrs. I'll try that next time. As an update, pulling...