I for one was concerned that the 1% were getting too much special treatment.
So is 10 psi good to store a beer in a corny at 65ish degrees? Or should I go higher?
Doesn’t really matter. Just be sure the lid is sealed, and 10 psi should do that.
That will work for a while. Then the beer will absorb the CO2 and the head pressure will equalize. It probably isn’t an issue unless you’re OCD like me. I want to keep constant positive pressure on the inside to make sure the keg stays sealed. Which means that I come along with my CO2 and give it a 15-20 lb. shot once a day. That way it is carbonating while it is just sitting. And yes, if I don’t need the CO2 elsewhere, I just leave it hooked up at the pressure it needs to carb to the right level.
I’ve always thought you needed more than 10 psi to seat the lid well. But I could be wrong.
If I’m storing kegs I hit them at about 30 psi to seat the lid. Of course, if the seal is bad they still leak at whatever pressure you hit them with…
I read an article somewhere that said that a steady pressure of ~ 9 psi is enough to keep the lid seated, and that less would obviously let the beer go flat. I wish I could remember who wrote it. As said, a bad /old seal
wouldn’t seal well regardless.
Ok, good to know guys. I bought all new gasket sets for my cornies. I replaced them all on this one. I plan on kegging it Monday. I’ll just hit with 20+ish psi. Sorry if these questions seem silly. I’m totally new to the kegging game. This probably will never be an issue in the future. My keezer isn’t built yet, although I have everything but the lumber. Once it’s built, kegs will just go in and tapped.
Not silly at all Frank. It’s a very different process from bottling. You’ll be glad you made the jump !
I basically did it to have my own beer on tap at my wedding next May. So we’re going to have it up and running for our Christmas party with the Pumpkin Saison (Zymurgy recipe), a spruce ale, a winter warmer of sort, and my Red-Nosed IPA. I actually had the IPA on tap last Christmas in my 1/8 sanke keg.
Sounds like a winner. It’s fun to have more than one on tap.
How could more then one tap be fun??? i have a hard enough time picking between 2 of my homebrews, let alone 4!
Ok, the beer kegged and hit it with 22 psi. I left it on for about 5 minutes and removed the disconnect. Is this sufficient? Also, sure as hell beats bottling lol.
It’s sufficient to seal the keg. It will not carbonate though. You would need to leave the gas hooked up for longer to carbonate.
Yeah, I wouldn’t think it would carb it. When I have time to build my keezer here in a month, it will be hooked up for good.
Why not leave it on and get it carbed? I figure a week at whatever pressure per temp for volume desired.
My first kegging (corny keg) of 5 gals of an extract kit pale ale from NB:
1.) Corny was a tertiary racking (Primary, Secondary, then kegged)
2.) Added 5 o of priming sugar
3.) Stored room tempy for 3 weeks
Then I finally got the CO2 system (5lb tank, dual regulator)
Hooked it up to the corny, added about 10lb pressure
Went to pull my first glass, immediately and KABOOOSH!
So. What’d I miss? Lots of beer wasted as I didn’t know about the pressure releif valve (actually, my keg doesn’t have one, but the pin lock I could have released it -be careful here too - I just depressed the pin with a screwdriver and again - KABOOOSH!)
did you give it time to chill?
5 oz for 5 gallons is a lot to start with. I am guessing that you didn’t hear any gas going in when you hooked up 10 psi.
on the pin lock pressure release, are you sure you depressed the gas in poppet and not the beer out? if you are sure I suspect that you had a keg full of foam from pulling that first glass (and reducing the pressure inside)
How long is your serving line? if you calculate the pressure inside that keg after 5 oz of priming sugar and at room temp I am guess it was around 20-30 psi which would want a very long serving hose indeed.
did not allow it to cool. I thought that I’d get the first glass to throw out as most of anything left that settled would come out.
When I finally figured out releasing pressure slowly you could actually see the hose size decrease. Fun experiement, good story, gor me to sign up for AHA to be a lurker.