New to kegging and getting frustrated with oxidation

[day_trippr]

Hefe's are best enjoyed young, like many styles, but you should be able to get one to go 6 months in a keg without it already having long gone to The Dark Side. But it means cradle-to-grave O2 avoidance - when cold crashing one must provide exogenous CO2 to make up for cold contraction of head space and fluid volume, and closed racking to a purged keg must be done through purged lines - but even then the process can still benefit from a touch of ascorbic acid (1 teaspoon of AA powder dissolved in 20-30ml of water) injected into the purged keg before racking...

Cheers!

 

[franknbeans]

So when I had started to cold crash, I would swap out the bubbler bung for a TC cap with a ball lock and run CO2 at 1-2 psi. I can see the lines not being O2 flushed causing issues.. not real sure on how to fix that part from conical to keg.

 

[franknbeans]

One other thing I know I have not done was passivate the conical. I didn't even think about that part.