NealGamby
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Hello HBT,
Gamby here.
I’m new to kegging instead of bottling the beer. Was given a nice kegerator for Christmas, and once I saw that I had made a batch of Hefeweizen. Which I underpitched the yeast, the OG was way high, tried correcting with more yeast and being more patient in fermentation. Wasn’t bad but certainly not great.
Anyway, I had started getting things in order by buying a corny pin lock keg, new disconnects, worm drive clamps, and got the CO2 tank filled up.
Before kegging, I sanitized the keg, beer lines etc. Then transferred the beer from the fermentation bucket to the keg. Hooked up the disconnects and everything is working or so I thought. I planned on setting and forgetting the psi at 12, didn’t want to do force carbonation until I get more familiar with the process. The psi gauge was at 20 psi, which I go to turn down the gauge, only that the knob wouldn’t budge to adjust the psi settings.
I didn’t want to mess with the tank while it was still full and jimmy around with it. So I lowered the kegerator temps to be more in line with the chart, and left it. Come back, after 2 hours, to check the gauges and that everything is working. I immediately noticed that the tank co2 levels dipped a little bit. I thought that was normal since c02 is going into the keg. Come back the next day and it dipped some more, shoot I got a leak. Checked for leaks, nothing was bubbling on the lines. I fastened the worm clamps more and it seemed to stabilize over the course of the next day. The gauges never moved and then the next morning the tank is empty?
So what gives? I’m thinking I need to apply keg lube next time to the O ring and also make sure the psi adjustment knob is in working order. Is there anything I missed in my preparation? Total bummer about the beer but I’m going back to the drawing board. Other than keg lube should I need anything else? Thanks for your time.
-Neal Gamby.
Gamby here.
I’m new to kegging instead of bottling the beer. Was given a nice kegerator for Christmas, and once I saw that I had made a batch of Hefeweizen. Which I underpitched the yeast, the OG was way high, tried correcting with more yeast and being more patient in fermentation. Wasn’t bad but certainly not great.
Anyway, I had started getting things in order by buying a corny pin lock keg, new disconnects, worm drive clamps, and got the CO2 tank filled up.
Before kegging, I sanitized the keg, beer lines etc. Then transferred the beer from the fermentation bucket to the keg. Hooked up the disconnects and everything is working or so I thought. I planned on setting and forgetting the psi at 12, didn’t want to do force carbonation until I get more familiar with the process. The psi gauge was at 20 psi, which I go to turn down the gauge, only that the knob wouldn’t budge to adjust the psi settings.
I didn’t want to mess with the tank while it was still full and jimmy around with it. So I lowered the kegerator temps to be more in line with the chart, and left it. Come back, after 2 hours, to check the gauges and that everything is working. I immediately noticed that the tank co2 levels dipped a little bit. I thought that was normal since c02 is going into the keg. Come back the next day and it dipped some more, shoot I got a leak. Checked for leaks, nothing was bubbling on the lines. I fastened the worm clamps more and it seemed to stabilize over the course of the next day. The gauges never moved and then the next morning the tank is empty?
So what gives? I’m thinking I need to apply keg lube next time to the O ring and also make sure the psi adjustment knob is in working order. Is there anything I missed in my preparation? Total bummer about the beer but I’m going back to the drawing board. Other than keg lube should I need anything else? Thanks for your time.
-Neal Gamby.