No carbonation in keg????

[DustinHickey]

Hello,
I just recently kegged a beer and did the following"

chilled to 40 degrees and set regulator at 10 psi for 2 weeks.

today I tried it and to my surprise it didn't carbonate at all and out came completely flat beer.

Regulator still reads 10 psi.

Any ideas what it could be?

-Dustin

 

[Yooper]

It's still at 40 degrees? Is the gas turned on constantly? Any chance the tank is empty, or any blockages in the gas line/quick disconnect? If you turn the pressure up to, say, 15 psi, do you hear gas rushing in?

 

[73Drvr]

If you pull on the pressure relief valve do you get a blast of co2? When you connect the co2 do you hear the co2 rush into the keg? I suspect the answer will be no to both, indicating that for some reason the co2 never made it into the keg. Double check the shutoff valve on the bottle. Do you have a shutoff between the bottle and the keg? Check the quick disconnect and the post for clogs of some sort.

 

[DustinHickey]

I have no idea if there is a blockage in the line, I turn the reg up and i hear the gas humming through the regulator. When I let beer out it comes out kinda slow but the PSI gauge doesnt drop.

The regulator was on the full two weeks

 

[DustinHickey]

just checked prv. co2 comes out then more humming at the regulator.

 

[DustinHickey]

Its an old regulator that hasnt been used in a while but it seems to maintain pressure

 

[PantsOffBrewing]

Has this same thing worked with other kegs?

I have an older regulator and it needs to be set at 15-17psi. Maybe your regulator is just off and when it reads 10psi its actually 2psi. Turn it up and give it more time....

 

[ksbrain]

If it flows really slow then the pressure inside the keg is low or there's an obstruction in the dispense line.

If there was an obstruction on the dispense, the beer would still be carbonated, so that's not it.

Could be a bad connection on the gas in to the keg. I had this for one keg, where it wasn't fully seated. The keg took a while to carb, and always poured slowly. When there was like 5 pints left in there, I finally realized the problem.

 

[GRHunter]

If you pull on the pressure relief valve do you get a blast of co2? When you connect the co2 do you hear the co2 rush into the keg? I suspect the answer will be no to both, indicating that for some reason the co2 never made it into the keg. Double check the shutoff valve on the bottle. Do you have a shutoff between the bottle and the keg? Check the quick disconnect and the post for clogs of some sort.

+1 on checking the release valve to see if CO2 comes out.