To all my wonderful been-there-failed-miserably-found-a-solution-and-fixed-the-problem friends out there... I'm having a major issuing with pushing beer. I'm in the process of getting the materials to finish my kegerator but I'm having some pretty consistent problems with maintaining good push pressure with my CO2 and I'd like to get them worked out before my kegerator becomes a really good means of creating foamy messes (I can do that fine enough on my own, thank you very much).
At the moment, i'm carbonating a cold keg at 300 kPa for 24 hours, which does a really good job of hitting the mark. I connect the keg (currently) to the CO2 and I've found that about 20 kPa creates the best pushing rate. Anything higher results in foamy mess (see exerpt in parens in the above paragraph) and anything at about 20 or below results in the regulator basically closing off and no longer pushing the beer.
Any best practices out there? Is it the regulator?
My kegerator is an upright that I've mounted 3 taps on. Once all of the gear comes in the plan is to run the beer line (in a logical manner, something on the order of 1 meter or so from each keg) and to run the gas line through the sidewall (don't worry, the fridge is just an insulated box with a chiller plate on the back wall) with two coupled T-conectors (creating 3 lines) inside leading to the kegs.
Thoughts?
At the moment, i'm carbonating a cold keg at 300 kPa for 24 hours, which does a really good job of hitting the mark. I connect the keg (currently) to the CO2 and I've found that about 20 kPa creates the best pushing rate. Anything higher results in foamy mess (see exerpt in parens in the above paragraph) and anything at about 20 or below results in the regulator basically closing off and no longer pushing the beer.
Any best practices out there? Is it the regulator?
My kegerator is an upright that I've mounted 3 taps on. Once all of the gear comes in the plan is to run the beer line (in a logical manner, something on the order of 1 meter or so from each keg) and to run the gas line through the sidewall (don't worry, the fridge is just an insulated box with a chiller plate on the back wall) with two coupled T-conectors (creating 3 lines) inside leading to the kegs.
Thoughts?