Ok, so the other night I drilled my fridge and installed the faucets, liquid lines, shelving for the kegs / CO2, and the drip tray. Last night I racked my AHBS Choco-Rasp-Stout into a sanitized keg and connected everything. I had a few things that concerned me, and I need someone to tell me to "relax, don't worry, have a homebrew...."
1) Per the instructions, I sealed the keg, attached the liquid line to the out post, attached the gas line to the in post, and opened the gas with the regulator set at 16lbs to "seat the lid". I did this, and it immeadiately seated and sealed the slightly leaking lid. However, beer came out of the keg out post and into the liquid line. Not much, maybe a foot of line had liquid in it. Is this normal? Is this an issue? Did I do somehting wrong?
2) Now, when I connected my bottle (room temp, the regulator showed about 1000psi. I set the reg to 40psi (per instructions....24hrs at 40, bleed, 24hrs at 20psi, bleed, 24hrs at 14psi....drink) and put the whole thing thing in the fridge. I checked it this morning and thehigh-side gage is now showing ~660psi. Now I know that PV=nRT and that the cold temps of the fridge should drop the pressure. I just wasn't expecting such a large drop. Is this normal, or the sign of a leak in my system?
I know these sound like trivial issues, but this is my baby and I am worried. On a side note.....kegging process rocks comapred to bottling! :rockin: I already told SWMBO that any bottle tha isn't a bomber, a Belgian, or a flip-lid style is leaving the basement for good! So for my Michigan peeps , there will be about 6 cases of 12oz bottles that will be free to a good home in the near future.
-Todd
1) Per the instructions, I sealed the keg, attached the liquid line to the out post, attached the gas line to the in post, and opened the gas with the regulator set at 16lbs to "seat the lid". I did this, and it immeadiately seated and sealed the slightly leaking lid. However, beer came out of the keg out post and into the liquid line. Not much, maybe a foot of line had liquid in it. Is this normal? Is this an issue? Did I do somehting wrong?
2) Now, when I connected my bottle (room temp, the regulator showed about 1000psi. I set the reg to 40psi (per instructions....24hrs at 40, bleed, 24hrs at 20psi, bleed, 24hrs at 14psi....drink) and put the whole thing thing in the fridge. I checked it this morning and thehigh-side gage is now showing ~660psi. Now I know that PV=nRT and that the cold temps of the fridge should drop the pressure. I just wasn't expecting such a large drop. Is this normal, or the sign of a leak in my system?
I know these sound like trivial issues, but this is my baby and I am worried. On a side note.....kegging process rocks comapred to bottling! :rockin: I already told SWMBO that any bottle tha isn't a bomber, a Belgian, or a flip-lid style is leaving the basement for good! So for my Michigan peeps , there will be about 6 cases of 12oz bottles that will be free to a good home in the near future.
-Todd