Hefeweizen burst carb

[Crafty_Brewer]

Hello everyone, I’m getting ready to keg my Hefeweizen this Saturday assuming the FG is GTG and the sample tastes good. This is going to be my fist time kegging a beer. I’d like to burst carb it so it’s ready to drink by Wednesday or Thursday with family going to be in town.

I just got through reading the awesome sticky @Bobby_M wrote, and I had a question on the burst carb. The thread says 3x serving pressure for 24 hours, purge and set to serving pressure, and it’s ready to drink shortly after that.

I’m planning on 3.12 VOLs for this beer, 18 psi at 38F. My secondary regulator goes up to 30 psi. I could use the pass through I had put into the regulator bank for 54 psi (18x3), but something is telling me it would be a better idea to just set the reg to 30 psi and draw out the time of the burst carb a little. Is 48 hours appropriate before dropping to 18 psi and purging the keg?

Line balancing has already been considered too, I plan on 7’ of 4mm ID EVAbarrier, it’s supposed to be 2.8 lbs resistance per foot. I have extra on the roll if I need to cut a longer section though.

 

[Bobby_M]

30psi will also give you some leeway to check on it without over carbing. I would check on it at 30-32 hours and see where it lands.

 

[Crafty_Brewer]

30psi will also give you some leeway to check on it without over carbing. I would check on it at 30-32 hours and see where it lands.

Sounds good, thanks!

 

[Crafty_Brewer]

Update for anyone who finds this thread later: I transferred to keg and hit it with 30 psi for ~32 hours, then purged headspace and dropped psi to 18. 3 days after dropping to serving pressure it was nicely carbed.

48 hours would probably have been fine in this case, but I had time to let it carb up the rest of the way on its own, and it turned out fantastic with no risk of overcarbing.

 

[Crafty_Brewer]

Pint pic after a week and a half in the keg, it is delicious, definitely has peaked.

I think the method I will settle on for burst carbing is a slight modification on Bobby’s 3x serving psi for 24 hours before dropping to serving pressure. My secondary regulators go to 30 psi, so I’ll divide the target 3x psi by 30 and multiply that by 24 hours.

So for 18 psi… 18x3 is 54. 54/30 is 1.8. 1.8 x 24 hours is 43 hours. Should be just about right.

For the lager I’m going to brew this weekend it will be 12 psi x 3 = 36. 36/30 is 1.2. 1.2 x24 hours is 29 hour burst carb, then set to 12 psi and let it ride.

 

[Kickass]

I know it’s polarizing just mentioning the name, but I use this chart posted by Marshal at Brülosophy.

https://brulosophy.com/methods/carbonation-methods/

 

[Crafty_Brewer]

View attachment 878598I know it’s polarizing just mentioning the name, but I use this chart posted by Marshal at Brülosophy.

https://brulosophy.com/methods/carbonation-methods/

Interesting, seems like we are all in the same ballpark.

Not sure what’s terribly polarizing about him/his site, maybe I’ve missed something. I’m going to be trying out the quick lager method on that site this weekend.

 

[Kickass]

Not sure what’s terribly polarizing about him/his site

I respect what he’s done for homebrewing and taken within the proper context I think there’s tons of good info he’s published. Not everyone shares my opinion, the hammers often come out swinging hard at the simple mention of “Brülosophy”. But that’s for another thread.