Sanitizing Corny's....

[Aksig88]

So I have both my kegs apart and ready to be sanitized and filled with beer, well at least one of them is ready to be filled with beer. My LHBS is closed today unfortunately and couldnt get star san and probably cant till tuesday or wednesday next week. But i want to get one beer out of its fermenter and into keg tonight what can i use instead of regular sanitizing products that you would get at a LHBS. I have Oxy Clean spray, clorox, and clorox wipes. Ived that bleach can screw up stainless steel, has anyone used a really weak mixture anyways?!? PLEASE HELP!!!

 

[itsme6582]

Those babies are brand new to you. Just wait until you can get the right materials. You can survive a few days.

 

[passedpawn]

Just use bleach and rinse well. No problem.

 

[Baldy_Beer_Brewery]

+1 on the bleach. Properly diluted and rinsed with the hottest tap water it will be fine. Your kegged beer is not as vulnerable to infection as fresh wort. RDWHAHB

 

[Aksig88]

thanks for the info fellas as of right now a batch of oktoberfest sits in a newly sanitized corny. Hints on force carbing this beer? I was going to do 13psi for 2weeks? Read that on one of the stickys for kegging.....

 

[duckmanco]

I like the 48 hours at 30 psi, stop gas, vent headspace, set regulator to serving pressure (for me 9-10 psi) put gas back on keg, pull a few ounces of gunk, toss that, pull a fresh of pint of somewhat carbed beer, and then leave it at serving pressure till the keg kicks.

Has always worked really well, I've never shaken a keg of beer as this method has worked really well for me.

 

[Baldy_Beer_Brewery]

I always do the set and forget. Serving temperature and pressure for a week to ten days.

But as this appears to be your first legging experience, you may be itching to go and one of the crank and shake methods are what your wanting.

 

[Aksig88]

vent head space? just pull the relief valve where the cover is? so this way its done being carbonated quicker?

 

[day_trippr]

vent head space? just pull the relief valve where the cover is? so this way its done being carbonated quicker?

The venting is just to avoid blasting your first pour at the 30 psi "burst carb" pressure...

Cheers!

 

[Aksig88]

ok and on one of the stickys it says put gas on the same time sealing the lid, i think thats bs.....is it?

 

[passedpawn]

ok and on one of the stickys it says put gas on the same time sealing the lid, i think thats bs.....is it?

No, not bs, put the CO2 on the tank, pull relief valve momentarily, exhaust O2. Maybe unnecessary, but meh why not.

[edit: Woops, I misread. I read "pull". So, my reply above made no sense. At all. Please ignore it, thanks.]

 

[Baldy_Beer_Brewery]

I've not read the sticky but I'm assuming they are talking about applying 30 pounds or so of pressure to seat the lid. I never do this as I see no need to do so. All my lids with good and properly seated prongs work fine.

 

[copyright1997]

vent head space? just pull the relief valve where the cover is? so this way its done being carbonated quicker?

When you rack the beer to the keg you want to make sure you get all the air out of the keg to ensure that you only have co2 in there with the beer. So, you can first pressure it up, then vent out the co2+air mixture, then repeat. This "wastes" some gas (co2) but doing this a couple/few times gives me a good feeling that now I only have co2 w/my beer.

 

[Aksig88]

Ah that makes sense, well I have it pressurized at 30psi. So far so good, ill check it tomorrow. Thanks for all your guys help!