Tubing length keg question

[day_trippr]

Looks rather still, doesn't it...

Cheers!

 

[Gavin C]

Thanks Gavin. How do you store your filled kegs to yet be connected to your C02. Your "back ups" ready to go when your current kegs kick. Do you have them pre-primed with sugar when you rack them to keg or are they just slightly pressurized (with no priming sugar) enough to seal and then you cold crash while carbonating for that 36-40 hour time at 30psi?

Assuming I'm up to speed on my pipeline I will have a carboy crashed and ready to go for carbonation when a keg kicks. Not always so well organized depending on rate of consumption etc. I can switch out kegs as desired but I try not to as it inevitably will disturb gelatinized sediment. it settles out but you need to give it a little time. I like to have a Hefeweizen going for these switches not least because I really like the style. Periodic disruption of sediment is desirable here. (gelatin is not used in Hefe)

Chest freezer with STC1000 for crashing, fermentation and storage of kegs is shown as is Lil Sparky's nut brown. another representative pour. Sipping one as I type.

 

[Gavin C]

Looks rather still, doesn't it...

Cheers!

I find creating truly representative images of beer color, clarity and carbonation to be extremely difficult. Thank you for the critique on my photographic technique. If you have any pointers as to how you capture representative images I would love to know.

Aperture, f-stop, exposure time are all variables I'm sure. I'm a bit of a dullard when it comes to photography I'm afraid

 

[day_trippr]

I find creating truly representative images of beer color, clarity and carbonation to be extremely difficult. Thank you for the critique on my photographic technique. If you have any pointers as to how you capture representative images I would love to know.

Aperture, f-stop, exposure time are all variables I'm sure. I'm a bit of a dullard when it comes to photography I'm afraid

Whoa. Way more there than was intended - and I'm hardly qualified to judge photographs in any case. It just looked rather flat for a fresh pour - which in the context of the thread could be significant.

Probably lack of backlight - there must've been more going on in that glass than the picture captured, else it really was a flat beer with a cap of foam, and that can't be right Although looking again, I'm not sure that's it either. Oh well...

But a little backlighting can bring life to a glass of beer...

Cheers!

 

[Gavin C]

Whoa. Way more there than was intended - and I'm hardly qualified to judge photographs in any case. It just looked rather flat for a fresh pour - which in the context of the thread could be significant.

Probably lack of backlight - there must've been more going on in that glass than the picture captured, else it really was a flat beer with a cap of foam, and that can't be right

A little backlighting can bring life to a glass of beer...

Cheers!

That is a truly beautiful beer picture. Certainly makes mine look very sad and flat. Great tip on the backlighting. Thanks for the pointer. Much appreciated.

 

[day_trippr]

You're too kind, but thanks

Taken with an old Oly digital, it belies roughly 70 pounds of Nikon F-bodies and associated glass that hasn't been touched in over a decade, along with pretty near everything I ever learned about apertures, shutter speeds and ISO/ASA/DIN, oh so many years ago...

Cheers!

 

[k1ngl1ves]

I like those wind up disposables. My wife says I embarrass her when I pull out one of those babies to snap a shot.



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It's my payback for her taking up half my garage with useless junk...