Hey folks, I am new to kegging and today all my parts have arrived and will be kegging my first batch just after some advise. I have racked the beer into my 50lt keg and connected the spear, circlip, coupler and gassline connected to my Co2 bottle through the mk2 reg. I am force carbonating it at room temp so the liquid is roughly 27degrees celsius. At this tempreture using a carbonation chart I will need to apply 33 psi to acheive 2.2 volume of co2.
How do I accurately set the regulator to 33 psi? And how can I tell what the pressure is inside the keg to indicate when its finished carbonating? Are you supposed to turn the gas on at the bottle and set the regulator to the required psi, turn the gas bottle on and then just walk away? It seems to me if I have the keg taped and beer line assembled with a picnic tap on the end the pressure on the regulator just goes up and up until it go's over 50 psi and goes out it's pin. I might be doing something wrong but this is the first time I've done this isn't really making sense. Another note why are there two gauges on the regulator? Thanks in advance
How do I accurately set the regulator to 33 psi? And how can I tell what the pressure is inside the keg to indicate when its finished carbonating? Are you supposed to turn the gas on at the bottle and set the regulator to the required psi, turn the gas bottle on and then just walk away? It seems to me if I have the keg taped and beer line assembled with a picnic tap on the end the pressure on the regulator just goes up and up until it go's over 50 psi and goes out it's pin. I might be doing something wrong but this is the first time I've done this isn't really making sense. Another note why are there two gauges on the regulator? Thanks in advance
