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[Gazza1234]

I seem to be on here a fair bit but it's best place for help. I filled a keg and gassed it the quick way and when I poured it had good head but beer was flat. Can it be salvaged?

 

[enkamania]

A lot of details missing. How cold was the beer? What was the PSI applied and for how long?

 

[stieg000]

Carbonation takes time to fully integrate into the beer. Early on the bubbles will be fairly big but the longer it sits the finer the bubbles get. I usually do a partial fast carb and drink it as I go but it takes at least a week to really develop good carbonation and head.

 

[Gazza1234]

A lot of details missing. How cold was the beer? What was the PSI applied and for how long?

4 deg. 30psi rolling keg for 2mins (flat with good head) 30psi left in fridge 15hrs still not nice taste with good head though.

 

[Gazza1234]

Thinking of just adding 100g of sugar to keg and leaving for 2 weeks and not carbing with CO2

 

[Iseneye]

Damn man, just chill out and relax. Put it at 10-14 PSI to whatever volume you want and leave it for two to three weeks. If you carb with sugar you will have to bring it back up to fermentation temp and then cool it again, plus you will be exposing it to more oxygen.

 

[doug293cz]

Lots of head but beer being flat is often caused by the beer serving lines being too short. You have lots of head because that's where most of the CO2 went. Beer lines need to be long enough so that there is not a major drop in pressure as the beer exits the tap. This requires enough flow friction to drop the pressure from the keg pressure to atmospheric pressure. Use this beer line calculator to determine how long your lines need to be.

Brew on

 

[Gazza1234]

Lots of head but beer being flat is often caused by the beer serving lines being too short. You have lots of head because that's where most of the CO2 went. Beer lines need to be long enough so that there is not a major drop in pressure as the beer exits the tap. This requires enough flow friction to drop the pressure from the keg pressure to atmospheric pressure. Use this beer line calculator to determine how long your lines need to be.

Brew on

Thanks doug when I set it up I was told use about 2meters

 

[divrack]

Thanks doug when I set it up I was told use about 2meters

Second the above. I've got a crazy amount of line I find necessary to pour a good pilsner. 7m. Also important is thickness. Thinner the better.
An interim measure is to degass, pour, regass. It's wasteful obviously but gas is cheaper than beer foam all over the place and unsatisfying beers. Hot tap, dirty glassware is also a problem

 

[stieg000]

My kegerater broke a while back so ive been serving off portable taps, so I degass to pour daily. I keep the pressure regulator constant and just shut the valve off to the keg and pop the pressure relief valve until it sounds good. When im done or i loose too much pressure i open up the valve again.

I agree with above posters, my keg lines are around 15ft long because I brew a lot of belgian beers.