sandyeggoxj
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I want to start this off by saying I am not new at kegging. I have kegged and force carbonated my annual limit of home brewed beer for a while now with no issues. But this issue has me stumped.
I brewed a 10-gallon batch of a milk stout a while back. I screwed up and I forgot to add the lactose to the boil so I just split the addition and boiled some water to sanitize it and then dumped the whole mess into each keg. I racked the beer into the keg and then purged with co2 and shook it a bit to mix it all up. I put the kegs on co2 to pressurize them. Once they were carbonated the first keg went into the kegerator. I served it at 12psi, like all my beer, and it was amazing. Perfect head wonderful flavor.
The second beer went into my cold conditioning and storage chamber. I have up to 6 kegs in here all staying at 36 degrees and hooked up to co2 at 12psi. When the first keg kicked I dropped the replacement keg into the slot in the kegerator. It was nice and cold and supposedly carbonated.
I poured a pint to clear up anything that settled in the bottom and make sure it was pouring nice.
No carbonation. Now, there was some, but very little. Perhaps 1.8 volumes. I thought that was wierd but perhaps my regulator gauges were wrong. So I left it hooked up for another 10 days or so at serving pressure. By then it should have been carbonated. No change. So I hooked it up to ~50psi and left it for a while. I got busy with work and totally forgot about it for 3.5 days. WHoops! In this case there as a slight change. But still not pouring a head.
Some troubleshooting facts: I poured the keg with 12psi and with 50psi. There is a noticable difference in speed. the 50 psi would fill the glass in a couple seconds. There should be nothing but foam in the glass with either pressure at this point but I still have to work to get ANY foam, let alone a good pour.
The beer comes out easily with no noticable obstructions. Also, the co2 obviously goes into the keg.
This beer is from the SAME batch. There is no change in anything other than different kegs. Where did I go wrong? This keg has been used before by me and I have had no issues.
I brewed a 10-gallon batch of a milk stout a while back. I screwed up and I forgot to add the lactose to the boil so I just split the addition and boiled some water to sanitize it and then dumped the whole mess into each keg. I racked the beer into the keg and then purged with co2 and shook it a bit to mix it all up. I put the kegs on co2 to pressurize them. Once they were carbonated the first keg went into the kegerator. I served it at 12psi, like all my beer, and it was amazing. Perfect head wonderful flavor.
The second beer went into my cold conditioning and storage chamber. I have up to 6 kegs in here all staying at 36 degrees and hooked up to co2 at 12psi. When the first keg kicked I dropped the replacement keg into the slot in the kegerator. It was nice and cold and supposedly carbonated.
I poured a pint to clear up anything that settled in the bottom and make sure it was pouring nice.
No carbonation. Now, there was some, but very little. Perhaps 1.8 volumes. I thought that was wierd but perhaps my regulator gauges were wrong. So I left it hooked up for another 10 days or so at serving pressure. By then it should have been carbonated. No change. So I hooked it up to ~50psi and left it for a while. I got busy with work and totally forgot about it for 3.5 days. WHoops! In this case there as a slight change. But still not pouring a head.
Some troubleshooting facts: I poured the keg with 12psi and with 50psi. There is a noticable difference in speed. the 50 psi would fill the glass in a couple seconds. There should be nothing but foam in the glass with either pressure at this point but I still have to work to get ANY foam, let alone a good pour.
The beer comes out easily with no noticable obstructions. Also, the co2 obviously goes into the keg.
This beer is from the SAME batch. There is no change in anything other than different kegs. Where did I go wrong? This keg has been used before by me and I have had no issues.
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