BlackJaqueJanaviac
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How do you know when you've purged all the air out of a corny keg and there is only CO2 left?
The way my kegging setup is I have to chill and serve from 2 1/2 gallon kegs. I have 2 of these small kegs.
Right now I've got one empty 2 1/2 gallon keg, a full 5 gallon keg, and a near-empty 2 1/2 gallon keg on tap. I want to fill the empty keg from the 5 gallon corny today so that I can get it chilling before the other small corny goes completely empty. But that would leave the 5 gallon keg half empty for a few days while I'm waiting to empty the other small keg.
I learned from this forum how to properly jump from the big keg to the smaller ones. But so far the only way I've done it is to pressurize the empty keg to the same pressure as the full keg then let gravity siphon it down. I connect the two "in" posts and the air/CO2 go from the lower keg into the upper keg.
This works fine as long as I'm completely emptying the big keg. But I don't think it would be good to leave a half-full keg with a large headspace of air above it.
The way my kegging setup is I have to chill and serve from 2 1/2 gallon kegs. I have 2 of these small kegs.
Right now I've got one empty 2 1/2 gallon keg, a full 5 gallon keg, and a near-empty 2 1/2 gallon keg on tap. I want to fill the empty keg from the 5 gallon corny today so that I can get it chilling before the other small corny goes completely empty. But that would leave the 5 gallon keg half empty for a few days while I'm waiting to empty the other small keg.
I learned from this forum how to properly jump from the big keg to the smaller ones. But so far the only way I've done it is to pressurize the empty keg to the same pressure as the full keg then let gravity siphon it down. I connect the two "in" posts and the air/CO2 go from the lower keg into the upper keg.
This works fine as long as I'm completely emptying the big keg. But I don't think it would be good to leave a half-full keg with a large headspace of air above it.