Best method to carbonate a corny keg if in no hurry at all!
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Gnomebrewer
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If I'm in no hurry at all, I add priming sugar to naturally carbonate. It saves money on CO2.
Force carbonating - purge three times, chill and leave at serving pressure for a week or so.
Force carbonating - purge three times, chill and leave at serving pressure for a week or so.
Yes, purge if you're able to. I usually wait at least a week, but I find the carbonation is perfect after about 2 weeks at serving pressure.
More like two weeks, and you'll never purge all of the oxygen, but yes, that's about right.
Ideally, you clean and sanitize the keg, then fill slowly with co2 from the bottom using the liquid dip tube (swapped temporarily with gas valve). Or just fill with co2 and purge a couple times.
Then rack your beer, hook up to gas and purge about 5 times to rid of oxygen.
Water purge is the best method available to home brewers to truly purge a keg of O2.
1. Fill keg fully with water (bonus points if you fill via dip tube and vent through gas line until water comes out).
2. Push out water with CO2
3. Release CO2 pressure
4. Open pressure relief valve and rack to keg.
The "purge 3 times" thing leaves more than enough O2 to stale the entire batch.
1. Fill keg fully with water (bonus points if you fill via dip tube and vent through gas line until water comes out).
2. Push out water with CO2
3. Release CO2 pressure
4. Open pressure relief valve and rack to keg.
The "purge 3 times" thing leaves more than enough O2 to stale the entire batch.
I set my fresh keg to 34 and put 12 pounds of co2 on it, purge after filling then another time the next day then let it set for as long as it takes to taste right, generally 1 to 2 weeks but every beer is different so there is no exact time for me anyway
