So i'm fairly new to kegging - i've done 4 batches so far that have been kegged with mixed results.
The last 3 before this one have had some off flavors i believe i fixed with my water treatment so that was a good start, but i still seem to be having problems with hop flavor falling off quickly.
I kegged a single hop galaxy IPA last wednesday and set it in the kegerator with 25psi on it for 2 days, then dropped it down to about 10-12 for serving. Carbonation seemed good by saturday and poured the first couple glasses. The hop aroma was insane - i could smell it coming from the faucet.
Today i pour another glass and it is really faded, the smell and flavor. I don't really sense any off flavors in the beer just the hop aroma lacking and almost gone.
Any ideas on what could be happening? The batch before this had similar results. I dry hopped with 2 oz straight in the secondary, like ive done before. I haven't seemed to have this problem with bottles in the past.
I do only brew about a 2.5-3 gal batch since thats all i can do and put in a 5 gal keg if that makes a difference as that crossed my mind.
Thanks for any help!
The last 3 before this one have had some off flavors i believe i fixed with my water treatment so that was a good start, but i still seem to be having problems with hop flavor falling off quickly.
I kegged a single hop galaxy IPA last wednesday and set it in the kegerator with 25psi on it for 2 days, then dropped it down to about 10-12 for serving. Carbonation seemed good by saturday and poured the first couple glasses. The hop aroma was insane - i could smell it coming from the faucet.
Today i pour another glass and it is really faded, the smell and flavor. I don't really sense any off flavors in the beer just the hop aroma lacking and almost gone.
Any ideas on what could be happening? The batch before this had similar results. I dry hopped with 2 oz straight in the secondary, like ive done before. I haven't seemed to have this problem with bottles in the past.
I do only brew about a 2.5-3 gal batch since thats all i can do and put in a 5 gal keg if that makes a difference as that crossed my mind.
Thanks for any help!