If I dont have a fridge to store keg while Im adding CO2

[jvend]

Hi, if.I dont have a refrigerator to store my keg while im inyecting co2, what can I do? Any suggestions? Can I do it at room temperature? Can I lay it down in a beach cooler? Please help

 

[Dr. Francois]

Room temp is fine, but will waste more gas. I frequently carb/condition at room temp using my out-of-fridge CO2 line.

I've found 25-30psi at 60F for 21 days works just as well as set-and-forget in the fridge.

 

[wilserbrewer]

As said above it will take a much greater pressure to carb at room temps, but it will take the same amount of gas...higher temp is higher pressure for the SAME amount of gas, unless you are venting the keg, the amount of gas will be the same.

 

[Dr. Francois]

Thanks for the correction.

 

[jvend]

So how much pressure should I set for how many days if im doing room temperature?

 

[carlisle_bob]

So how much pressure should I set for how many days if im doing room temperature?

Hi

Try 30 pounds for a month if things are as warm there as they are getting here.

Bob

 

[jvend]

What??? Why so mucj time, is often only abweek!!

 

[phoenixs4r]

What??? Why so mucj time, is often only abweek!!

At what psi? If you hook up your co2 line to the keg in the fridge at serving pressure (~10 psi) it will develop some carbonation, but it will be far from carbonated. Now if you set your regulator at 30psi in the fridge it will definitely be carbonates in a week, but look at what we did there, tripled the pressure needed.

 

[carlisle_bob]

What??? Why so mucj time, is often only abweek!!

Hi

CO2 dissolves in cold beer *much* better than it dissolves in warm beer. You probably only want to take a corny up to about 30 psi (pressure relief valve...), so that's the practical limit in this case. Since you can't go higher in pressure, you go longer in time.

Bob

 

[Bobby_M]

There are a lot of myths circulating in the kegging threads. Given the same target volumes of CO2, carbonating a keg at warmer temperatures does not take longer than cold. It also doesn't use more gas. It simply requires a higher pressure. I wouldn't call it "better" to carb at colder temps. The only detriment to carbing at warmer temps is that you can't keep your single pressure regulator at both cold serving pressure and warm carbonating pressures at the same time.

32psi at 70F for three weeks will give you 2.7 volumes of co2.
14psi at 40F for three weeks will give you 2.7 volumes of co2.

Yes, it takes at least that long at chart pressures even though at week 2 you may have 2.3 volumes and week one 1.9 volumes.. It's not linear, it's logarithmic.

Kegs can easily take 60psi. I don't think the pressure reliefs pop until 80 and the vessel itself can go to 120psi but that's really pushing it.

 

[carlisle_bob]

There are a lot of myths circulating in the kegging threads. Given the same target volumes of CO2, carbonating a keg at warmer temperatures does not take longer than cold. It also doesn't use more gas. It simply requires a higher pressure. I wouldn't call it "better" to carb at colder temps. The only detriment to carbing at warmer temps is that you can't keep your single pressure regulator at both cold serving pressure and warm carbonating pressures at the same time.

32psi at 70F for three weeks will give you 2.7 volumes of co2.
14psi at 40F for three weeks will give you 2.7 volumes of co2.

Yes, it takes at least that long at chart pressures even though at week 2 you may have 2.3 volumes and week one 1.9 volumes.. It's not linear, it's logarithmic.

Kegs can easily take 60psi. I don't think the pressure reliefs pop until 80 and the vessel itself can go to 120psi but that's really pushing it.

Hi

Most corny's are rated for 100 to 130 psi. The pressure valves *when new* are supposed to protect at 60 psi. I had some that leak at 20 psi .. threw them away. Since you can get a slow leak and dump a bottle of CO2 in a couple of days, it's best to be a bit careful.

Bob

 

[jvend]

Mine says up to 130 psi, so maybe I can carbonate at 40 psi at 20 celsius for one week and thats it? What do you think?