EliW
Active Member
Ok, so I've been a homebrewer for a long time, but always bottled (either into bottles or growlers)
I recently was going to supply brew for a large party, and so invested in kegging equipment (and honestly, given how easy it all was, I don't ever wanna go back to bottling *grin*)
But, on my first time out, I seem to have had a problem. Here's the situation:
1) I brewed the beer (an IPA in this case), and because I didn't want to deal with refrigeration, I primed in the keg.
2) 4 weeks later, on a Saturday, I take the keg to the event, drop it in a trashcan w/ ice, hook it up, set the pressure at 10psi on the gauge, and start serving. It works GREAT. But only ~3.5-4 gallons get drank. (ok, there were 95 gallons of homebrew at this party, so we didn't get through all of it)
3) Because we were all drinking and it got late, the pressure was left on overnight (just mentioning in case it matters)
4) Next morning, I turn the pressure off, disconnect everything, and bring it all home.
5) Monday evening, I decide I need to work on finishing up that last gallon. I hook the CO2 back up, everything seems fine, and I pour myself a few glasses that evening. At the end of the evening, 'just in case' (hearing horror stories of slight leaks wasting tanks), I turn the tank off. I leave everything hooked up though.
6) Tonight, Wednesday evening, I decide to have another glass. This time, when I turn the valve back on, my pressure gauge claims I'm only at like 3PSI. Odd. I turn it up until I hit 10PSI again, and I hear/feel it feeding CO2 into the keg for a while. Odd.
I go to tap myself one, and it comes out completely flat, and tastes badly oxidized. Like that last glass of beer you left in a growler for a week, then find in the back of the fridge.
So, what happened between Monday and Wednesday?
Thanks,
Eli
I recently was going to supply brew for a large party, and so invested in kegging equipment (and honestly, given how easy it all was, I don't ever wanna go back to bottling *grin*)
But, on my first time out, I seem to have had a problem. Here's the situation:
1) I brewed the beer (an IPA in this case), and because I didn't want to deal with refrigeration, I primed in the keg.
2) 4 weeks later, on a Saturday, I take the keg to the event, drop it in a trashcan w/ ice, hook it up, set the pressure at 10psi on the gauge, and start serving. It works GREAT. But only ~3.5-4 gallons get drank. (ok, there were 95 gallons of homebrew at this party, so we didn't get through all of it)
3) Because we were all drinking and it got late, the pressure was left on overnight (just mentioning in case it matters)
4) Next morning, I turn the pressure off, disconnect everything, and bring it all home.
5) Monday evening, I decide I need to work on finishing up that last gallon. I hook the CO2 back up, everything seems fine, and I pour myself a few glasses that evening. At the end of the evening, 'just in case' (hearing horror stories of slight leaks wasting tanks), I turn the tank off. I leave everything hooked up though.
6) Tonight, Wednesday evening, I decide to have another glass. This time, when I turn the valve back on, my pressure gauge claims I'm only at like 3PSI. Odd. I turn it up until I hit 10PSI again, and I hear/feel it feeding CO2 into the keg for a while. Odd.
I go to tap myself one, and it comes out completely flat, and tastes badly oxidized. Like that last glass of beer you left in a growler for a week, then find in the back of the fridge.
So, what happened between Monday and Wednesday?
Thanks,
Eli