Bomber1975
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Okay I got a kegging system and had a go at force carbonating kegs and had no end of dramas. So I figured I would naturally carbonate my last keg and see how that went. I made Tony's LCBA clone smelt beautiful and racked it, CC it for a week then bulk primed and banged it into a keg left it for four weeks whilst I was away at work and just got back. I couldn't wait to get home and plug it in and set it up to sample my hard work :icon_cheers: .
Now the kegerator I got was the keg king version on Ebay I was pretty sure that the beer line wasn't long enough so I went down to my LHBS and got 4 metres of 5mm beer line pulled apart my font and set up my new beer line. My first drama was a brain fade by not tightening up my draft system dispenser enough. I hadn't actually hooked my gas line up yet but attatched my beer line and my font looked something like the Trevi fountain (Beer everywhere) I quickly disconnected my beer line cleaned up then tightened up my font head. Then I set my pressure on my regulator to 14 PSI to pour my beer out attatched my gas line and the psi jumped to about 40. I don't know if I stuffed up here but I turned off the gas to the keg and released some pressure on the keg reattatched the gas line to the keg and it was at a constant of 14psi. Then when I went and poured my beer I am getting about 75% foam :angry: . after letting it settle for about 5 minutes I have about half a beer with still a fair bit of head. The beer tastes okay and still bubbles but I would like it to be carbonated a bit more.
Will the head situation settle down if left for a while? Have I totally stuffed up?? What can I do to be pulling great beers. I can't feel anything but distressed. My beers were tasting great from the bottle but I was getting over cleaning bottles and thought that kegging would be exactly what I was looking for but as I said I have had nothing but dramas. I work 4 weeks away and four weeks at home so carbing up kegs for two weeks really is a pain in the arse for my as SWMBO is quite happy to drink my beers but wont touch the keg system for fear of screwing something up ( not that I seem to be doing much better). Help me am I ever going to pour the perfect beer.
Now the kegerator I got was the keg king version on Ebay I was pretty sure that the beer line wasn't long enough so I went down to my LHBS and got 4 metres of 5mm beer line pulled apart my font and set up my new beer line. My first drama was a brain fade by not tightening up my draft system dispenser enough. I hadn't actually hooked my gas line up yet but attatched my beer line and my font looked something like the Trevi fountain (Beer everywhere) I quickly disconnected my beer line cleaned up then tightened up my font head. Then I set my pressure on my regulator to 14 PSI to pour my beer out attatched my gas line and the psi jumped to about 40. I don't know if I stuffed up here but I turned off the gas to the keg and released some pressure on the keg reattatched the gas line to the keg and it was at a constant of 14psi. Then when I went and poured my beer I am getting about 75% foam :angry: . after letting it settle for about 5 minutes I have about half a beer with still a fair bit of head. The beer tastes okay and still bubbles but I would like it to be carbonated a bit more.
Will the head situation settle down if left for a while? Have I totally stuffed up?? What can I do to be pulling great beers. I can't feel anything but distressed. My beers were tasting great from the bottle but I was getting over cleaning bottles and thought that kegging would be exactly what I was looking for but as I said I have had nothing but dramas. I work 4 weeks away and four weeks at home so carbing up kegs for two weeks really is a pain in the arse for my as SWMBO is quite happy to drink my beers but wont touch the keg system for fear of screwing something up ( not that I seem to be doing much better). Help me am I ever going to pour the perfect beer.