I'm about to do my first keg carbonation, I have read the FC article on here and lots of others on the web but I still am a little unclear on some aspects.
The guy I bought my kegs off (clever brewing) advised about trying to FC too fast with high pressure as he said it ruins the beer, I've also read similar posts elsewhere however lots of people obviously do this and the consequences mustn't be bad otherwise people wouldn't keep doing it. Anyway regardless I have decided not to go down this route, hence my question is around the slower option.
From research it appears most people run the kegs around 10-15PSI in general to pour their beer, hence if I just set my pressure to say 10PSI can I just leave it there and it will eventually carbonate the beer but also allow me to tap without any further intervention? I realise it will take longer to carb the beer, also is their some sort of saturation level with the beer where it stops carbonating? if not then is your beer constantly carbonating when your tapping it? and if so does it reach a point where you need to turn off the gas? sorry if these sound silly questions but I'm just a little unclear on the carbonation process.
My beer is an IPA and my keg is in the fridge so chilled, hence from various charts I think the ideal pressure for the beer is between 7-12PSI, at this pressure how long would it take to carbonate?
The guy I bought my kegs off (clever brewing) advised about trying to FC too fast with high pressure as he said it ruins the beer, I've also read similar posts elsewhere however lots of people obviously do this and the consequences mustn't be bad otherwise people wouldn't keep doing it. Anyway regardless I have decided not to go down this route, hence my question is around the slower option.
From research it appears most people run the kegs around 10-15PSI in general to pour their beer, hence if I just set my pressure to say 10PSI can I just leave it there and it will eventually carbonate the beer but also allow me to tap without any further intervention? I realise it will take longer to carb the beer, also is their some sort of saturation level with the beer where it stops carbonating? if not then is your beer constantly carbonating when your tapping it? and if so does it reach a point where you need to turn off the gas? sorry if these sound silly questions but I'm just a little unclear on the carbonation process.
My beer is an IPA and my keg is in the fridge so chilled, hence from various charts I think the ideal pressure for the beer is between 7-12PSI, at this pressure how long would it take to carbonate?