Bottling into growlers

[Heisenberg23]

Hi everyone, I am new to this site and relatively new brewer. I was wondering if anybody has the answer to this. when I fill my growler from my kegerator it seem to not hold up the carbonation (flat) if is left there for more then a couple hour. I don know what is the problem. I am force cabonating for 48 hours at 40psi for 24hours and then at 20psi for 24 hours then drop it to 5 to 10 to despe it. Thanks
cheers

 

[freisste]

Hi everyone, I am new to this site and relatively new brewer. I was wondering if anybody has the answer to this. when I fill my growler from my kegerator it seem to not hold up the carbonation (flat) if is left there for more then a couple hour. I don know what is the problem. I am force cabonating for 48 hours at 40psi for 24hours and then at 20psi for 24 hours then drop it to 5 to 10 to despe it. Thanks
cheers

If you are carbed going into the growler and flat coming out, your growler is leaking. To check, put a balloon over the cap after filling. If the balloon inflates, you have diagnosed your problem. Soapy water would show the same (assuming it IS a leak).

Cheers.

 

[BadNewsBrewery]

You may not be getting good carbonation with that schedule, either. You could have a lot of gas that hasn't quite disolved into the beer well.

When you open the carboy, do you hear a gush of CO2, or is there nothing? A gush would indicate that you don't have good dilution of the CO2 into the beer and it's all in the headspace. no gush tells us you've got leaky caps.

 

[Heisenberg23]

Thank you for the info. I will check for possible leeks.

Cheese
Thanks

 

[pabloj13]

Thank you for the info. I will check for possible leeks.

Cheese
Thanks

Yum. Leeks. ;-)

 

[RobertRGeorge]

Yum. Leeks. ;-)

Time to start a new thread on leek-infused porter (that most abused of beverages)? ;-)