How to bring a keg camping without FOAM!!!

[ghart999]

I brought a cornie camping with a friend jockey box. We 4-wheeled in and it was pretty bumpy. The keg was pure foam for the first 24 hours. Had the proper PSI, temps and line length too. Any way to prevent this from happening?

Thanks all.

 

[JesseRC]

I take my cornies to my mom's house all the time, wheel it in a ice cube chest, and have never had foaming issues . I even set up right away. I keep it co2 pressure during the drive. I set serving pressure when I get ther to like 2-4 psi.

 

[chumprock]

Yeah, but Jesse is using roads, and this guy wasn't.

Idk what you could do to prevent so much agitation in a situation like that other than giving it a bit to calm down. (24 hours or so)

 

[david_42]

Keep the keg on ice and use lower pressures. A jockey box doesn't help if the keg is sending foam to the cooling plate.

 

[Joe C]

Keep the keg on ice and use lower pressures. A jockey box doesn't help if the keg is sending foam to the cooling plate.

Bingo. I'd drop the pressure and maybe even purge a bit of the CO2 off the top. Someone will probably say thats wrong.

 

[JesseRC]

Well mom has a gravel driveway and that cube ice chest sure is getting bounced around. Have you tried it with the jockey box, prior to leaving. Maybe you've got other issues unrelated to your drive.

 

[ghart999]

Ah so the beer itself needs to be cold. OK.

So do I keep psi the same while 4-wheeling or reduce it?

 

[ghart999]

Well mom has a gravel driveway and that cube ice chest sure is getting bounced around. Have you tried it with the jockey box, prior to leaving. Maybe you've got other issues unrelated to your drive.

We're 4-wheeling for about an hour of intense stuff.

Jockey box is fine ahead of time. Used it since and before with no issues.

 

[SowegaBrews]

4-wheeling is bumpy business. are you talking ATVs or trucks? i can see this problem being solved in a truck, but not so much ATVs...

either way +1 to what david_42 and Joe C said!

 

[ghart999]

Using a Jeep. Pretty hairy stuff up into the Rocky Mtns.

 

[Cpt_Kirks]

You know, I'm thinking on this.

Would it be better to maybe transport it under HIGH pressure, say 30 psi. Then, when you arrive, purge the keg and set the pressure to 10 psi and serve.

Could the higher pressure help hold the beer steady? Or, did I just flunk physics?

 

[JesseRC]

I wouldnt do that, you will over carb your beer. It's like force carbing by rolling on the floor. I would keep it at recommended pressure for the style and as cold as possible.

 

[springer]

I would think that if you completely fill the keg with carbed beer leaving little to no headspace then the beer can't slosh around. brew up 10 gallons carb then just before you leave fill one all the way up.

 

[arturo7]

Lower pressure makes sense to me.

What kind of wheelin' were you doing?

 

[thrawn86]

I drink my beer minutes after force carbing and never have any problems. I bet its a combination of over carbing and short line length.

for example, with 5 feet 3/16 on a cobra tap, I can pour fine all the way up to about 13 psig, if I carb any higher than that its just a foamy mess. I made some koolaid once at 30psig, and it was all foam until I added more resistance.

 

[JesseRC]

I drink my beer minutes after force carbing and never have any problems. I bet its a combination of over carbing and short line length.

for example, with 5 feet 3/16 on a cobra tap, I can pour fine all the way up to about 13 psig, if I carb any higher than that its just a foamy mess. I made some koolaid once at 30psig, and it was all foam until I added more resistance.

If he transports it under 30 psi on a bumpy road, he is asking for a disaster of nothing but foam.

 

[78kombi]

i would buy alot of bungee rope and suspend it completely so there is virtually no movement.

kind of like this...but with a keg, hehe

 

[ghart999]

So leave it pressurized above 30psi?

 

[JesseRC]

I would not

If it is perfectly carbed right now, then just keep it under pressure at the correct serving pressure for your style.

 

[mrbugawkagawk]

anyone out there know a good brand to use with a corny keg that is a mini fridge.

 

[TerapinChef]

Ah so the beer itself needs to be cold

This is probably most of the problem here. Warm beer + cold draft plate = Lots of foam.

If that's not the problem...what about taking it in uncarbed and go for the quick carb technique? From what I understand overnight will pretty much get your beer carbed more or less....

 

[Spludge]

We have brought kegs out to the cabin by snowmachine. It is around a three hour drive which is rough at the end and then an hour snowmachine ride (personally broken trail - rough). Never had a foam issue and I am guessing this is due to ultra low temps, can get below -40. Try keeping that baby cool.

 

[alpo]

Warm beer doesn't hold CO2 as well. The liquid will try to push it out, especially if agitated.

 

[shoebag22]

reviving an old thread... what is the point of having a jockey box if you have to keep the keg cold?

 

[elmetal]

My guess, from experience, is that the beer got warmer. As the beer got warmer, the balanced 12 psi inside the keg (or whatever it is balanced to) nearly triples in psi, meaning you're serving at 20-30 psi.

Purge the keg, and serve at just enough to pou, 2 psi and you'll be set.

I think

 

[thebigo]

I would think that if you completely fill the keg with carbed beer leaving little to no headspace then the beer can't slosh around. brew up 10 gallons carb then just before you leave fill one all the way up.

This sounds like the way to do it along with not letting the temperature rise too much. Minimize the slosh room. But I ask you, how would you go about carbing before in the keg?

 

[user 40839]

reviving an old thread... what is the point of having a jockey box if you have to keep the keg cold?

I second this emotion. If travelling with a keg, and the keg needs to be kept to temp in an ice bath, etc, then why go the jockey box route at all (unless it's to give it that blast of cold before serving, to get it *truly* icy cold?)

 

[shoebag22]

bump........