happypanties
Well-Known Member
So I go into a local welding supply shop to get my 5lb co2 cylinder filled today, and I think the owner is giving me some bad advise. He said next time I come in he'll hook me up with some beer gas and tells me that nitro is the way to go. He said it will make my beer taste much better.
Then he proceeds to tell me how he went to some bar the other day and got a 9% beer and had to put ice in it to water it down because he said it was too heavy. He suggested that nitro would fix this.
Finally I told him my method of carbing my kegs was to set it at 12 psi for a week or two and he said I'm probably over pressuring it. He said set it to 2-3 psi and gradually move it up each day until I get to 7psi. I think maybe this would work for "real" kegs (i.e. BMC), which come pre-carbed from the brewery, but I am trying to carbonate flat homebrew. He continued to tell me I'm wrong and that I need to do it his way.
Think I might need to go to another shop next time?
Then he proceeds to tell me how he went to some bar the other day and got a 9% beer and had to put ice in it to water it down because he said it was too heavy. He suggested that nitro would fix this.
Finally I told him my method of carbing my kegs was to set it at 12 psi for a week or two and he said I'm probably over pressuring it. He said set it to 2-3 psi and gradually move it up each day until I get to 7psi. I think maybe this would work for "real" kegs (i.e. BMC), which come pre-carbed from the brewery, but I am trying to carbonate flat homebrew. He continued to tell me I'm wrong and that I need to do it his way.
Think I might need to go to another shop next time?