Bad regulator!

[hopmeamadeus]

So I bummed. I've been sitting on a Saison for about 2 months now because I haven't felt like bottling. So I did what any HBer would do--I ordered myself a keg kit from MW (xmas for myself!) which showed up Wednesday. I rushed out to get CO2 first thing this morning, got home, sterilized the keg, racked, then hooked it up. I hit my newly kegged beer with about 13psi and forget it. I went to check this afternoon, and the keg's at 60PSI! I started everything over, same result. Turns out I've got a bad regulator, which they're sending out but I probably won't have until middle of next week. Any thoughts on what the higher pressure might have done to the beer? I tasted some and it had a slight bite to it (carbonic acid maybe?). Right now I've got the keg about 15PSI or so with the gas off. Hopefully that's OK?

 

[McKBrew]

I wouldn't sweat it at all. Even at that high of a pressure, for the short period of time that it was high, your beer isn't even carbonated to serving pressure yet. No reason to worry at all.

 

[hopmeamadeus]

Sorry, it's just my first foray into the kegging. Right now I'm relaxing and trying not to worry. And, of course, drinking a homebrew!