ShredMaster
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Oh I'm no expert, I've just learned how not to **** it completely, mostly.
There's an article here about balancing a keg system, that is pretty bloody accurate. You get it right and hook it up for a week or so and its bloody perfect. Force carb works but its always touch and miss, by nature. You get it carbed enough to drink but it's a fine line to overcarbing it and being back to square one by de-carbing it to start over again. Force carb also means that the first night is carbed with big bubbles and they are here and there, the second night (when left at serving pressure) the bubbles are a little smaller and little more dispersed and the fourth night its bloody near perfect but now 1/3 of the keg is gone.
Serving pressure on a balanced system for a week will usually allow the beer to absorb enough co2 and stop when it is right (depending on what "right" means for your beer, temperature and line length). As the keg drains, you drop a few kpa to compensate for the headspace and not overcarb any of the beer, trial and error.
Well, thats how I see it....
Cheers,
Shred.
There's an article here about balancing a keg system, that is pretty bloody accurate. You get it right and hook it up for a week or so and its bloody perfect. Force carb works but its always touch and miss, by nature. You get it carbed enough to drink but it's a fine line to overcarbing it and being back to square one by de-carbing it to start over again. Force carb also means that the first night is carbed with big bubbles and they are here and there, the second night (when left at serving pressure) the bubbles are a little smaller and little more dispersed and the fourth night its bloody near perfect but now 1/3 of the keg is gone.
Serving pressure on a balanced system for a week will usually allow the beer to absorb enough co2 and stop when it is right (depending on what "right" means for your beer, temperature and line length). As the keg drains, you drop a few kpa to compensate for the headspace and not overcarb any of the beer, trial and error.
Well, thats how I see it....
Cheers,
Shred.
