Newbie question on kegging

[jcw90]

I only have my kegerator set up for one corny at a time. I will have one corny on tap but I would like to get my second ready for once the first runs out. I will have to pressurize my second corny and then let it sit in a closet until I run out of my first tap so the second won't be getting any continuous pressure from the tank. What should I set the psi at in my co2 tank when I carbonate my second corny keg so that it is ready in 4-5 days? I hope this makes sense, ask if you need clarifications. Thanks in advance!

 

[jason1973]

I only have my kegerator set up for one corny at a time. I will have one corny on tap but I would like to get my second ready for once the first runs out. I will have to pressurize my second corny and then let it sit in a closet until I run out of my first tap so the second won't be getting any continuous pressure from the tank. What should I set the psi at in my co2 tank when I carbonate my second corny keg so that it is ready in 4-5 days? I hope this makes sense, ask if you need clarifications. Thanks in advance!

if your carbing out of fridge try 2weeks.
what you can do, is google spunding valve and fermenting under pressure ,the secondary in a keg, so soon as beer is ready it is also carbed.

 

[Zepth]

By the sounds of things you're looking to set a comically high pressure in the headspace of the keg hoping that it will be enough to carb the entire batch to the correct value? It might be possible. It might also exceed the 130PSI rating on the keg. Certainly an interesting angle to take.

I've put 40 psi into the headspace of a corny right after seating the lid and purging. About a week later it was time for it to go into the keezer and it took air from the 14 psi line. What does this mean? It means that 40 psi in the headspace didn't fully carbonate the batch. Maybe 80 would. I'm probably not going to go that high in a corny personally but would like to hear from anyone who does try this method.

Look into natural carbonating in the keg. It's the same process you'd use for bottle conditioning except you use about 1/2 the amount of priming sugar. Leave that around at room temp for a couple weeks and then it'll be chilled and crashed nicely after 48 hours in the fridge. You'll have a little more sediment to discard, but total loss should be less than a pint.

Edit: Come to think of it my regulator (taprite) maxes out at 60 on the output. Seems some nitrogen regulators go that high. This would require finding a shop that would co2 fill your nitro tank or a CGA 320 - 580 adapter to use the nitro reg on your co2 tank. This idea now seems completely impractical.

 

[Ole_Smoky]

Im curious about this as well. I currently have 2 kegs carbed on tap but Ill be kegging 2 more before I go on vacation for 3 weeks, unfortunately my other 4 line manifold wont arrive before I leave. I was either thinking to go this route and put a high pressure headspace in the 2 new kegs and hope they are carbed and still holding some pressure when I return or unhook the 2 current kegs and just leave them at the 12 psi they are sitting at carbed now and then hook the 2 co2 lines I have onto the 2 new kegs to carb while Im gone. All 4 will be staying in the keezer, will the original 2 hold the 12 psi while Im gone without losing pressure as long as theres no leaks?

 

[lpdjshaw]

Like Zepth said about naturally carbing. I do this most of the time and it works out nicely. I use about 2/3 the amount of priming sugar and store at room temp for a couple weeks. Once the old keg kicks it put the new one in and 24 hrs later it's ready to go. I get less than a 1/4 pint of sediment on the first pour.

 

[eric19312]

I also naturally carb most of my kegs. About 1/2 cup table sugar boiled in 1 cup water. I tell myself the natural conditioning scrubs oxygen leading to longer room temp stability.

 

[fun4stuff]

Yeh you can do this- I was in your same shoes a couple months ago and searched the forums and found plenty of people do this. I've only done this a couple times but this is what I do:

I only have room for 1 keg in my kegerator. I have 2 kegs. The keg that is outside my kegerator is in my basement which is about 60-65 degrees. I purge outside EKG of air and set to psi of 30 (based on temperature and desired volume of co2). I then roll on ground for 5-10 mins while connected to the gas. I do this few times on the first day that I fill the keg. I then store it in a closet until it's needed. I'll connect it back up to the gas a couple times per week for up to 2 weeks until it's needed.

Once the fridge keg is empty, I chill the outside quickly in a chest freezer for a few hours, then put in kegerator at serving pressure of 10-12 psi to get it the rest of the way. It's good to go after being in kegerator for about a day.

 

[jason1973]

i have my first secondary under pressure under way, by time i empty one of my two kegs, probaly end of week new keg will be carb fermented and ready to chill and serve.