Carbonation

[simonpure]

I have a question. Once I carbonate my beer in the keg under 30 psi, and bring it down to serving pressure for the night to drink, do I have to return to 30 psi when I'm not drinking it?

 

[swackattack]

No. Just leav it on your desired serving pressure

 

[BryceL]

30 psi seems way to high to keep the beer at. It's fine if you are trying to quickly carbonate it (withing a couple days), but you will want to back it off or you will over carbonate it. 12 psi at 40 degrees gets me the right volumes of co2 for most of my ales. I set it to 12 and it is ready in about 10 days, no need to adjust for serving.

 

[simonpure]

Awesome thanks.

 

[day_trippr]

fwiw, here is a carbonation chart that will show you the proper CO2 pressure for a given carbonation level ("volumes of CO2", with 2.5 being about average for "average beers") and beer temperature...

Cheers!

 

[simonpure]

Good chart thx.