Questions tagged [kegging]
The process of moving beer or wine into larger storage containers and sealing them for later consumption. Generally carbonated using CO2 or beer gas (70/30 Nitrogen/CO2).
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Turbo Klar white foam?
I am using some turbo klar and a white foam is appearing after adding the A packet. I left the turbo klar in a cold room over winter so it probably froze and thawed multiple times. Is the turbo klar ...
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Using corny keg without a gas dip tube
Just thinking about removing a gas tip tube to maximize headspace. What if I just slide its o-ring on the post? That should in theory keep the keg sealed.
What do you guys think?
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Can you keg your homebrew in a cleaning keg?
I have been brewing beer for a couple of months now. I currently have a beer line and tap in my garage that has a cleaning keg for running cleaning solution through the lines.
I was just wondering if ...
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new CO2 leak at regulator connection
I had to exchange my first CO2 tank and when I went to connect the regulator to the new tank I am able to screw it on but there is still a leak from the connection not matter the tightness. Is this ...
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Transferring carbed beer between kegs at different temps - will it retain carbonation?
Say I have a keg of beer at around room temp. (23C/73.4F). I want 2.2 volumes of CO2 carbonation so using this calculator I figure out I need to add 25.83PSI of pressure - some time later the beer is ...
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First Time Brewer: Skipping secondary fermentation, bottling and a few other questions
I'm brewing my first batch of home brew, 'Hank's Hefeweizen' from Norther Brewer (extract). The instructions say 2 weeks primary, 2 weeks secondary, and 2 weeks bottle conditioning. I did not check my ...
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Corny keg post sizes
My corny keg has two O-rings on each post is this ok?
As my other keg only has one, do I leave both O-rings on or remove one?
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Carbonation in keg
I did my first kegged beer last week, I put the beer in and turned the co2 to about 35 and purged the tank about 5 times. I then shook the beer on the co2 for 3 minutes and then turned off the co2 ...
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Kegging time for beer under pressure or not?
I want to keg my latest stout. If I plan to have it in the keg for a few weeks before a party, do I need to put pressure on it or not? If pressure, how much pressure? I know the day before ...
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no prime up in kegging
2 gall plastic barrel 2" cap with vent, you know the sort. never pressured up, and its a new barrel new cap,no leaks. I decided on fresh yeast from off my spin plate, looked fine enough, added another ...
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Kegging and dispensing over distance/elevation using keg pressure or something else
A few years ago I set off to turn my kitchen dry bar into a wet bar by routing beer from my kegerator to the taps 10 or so feet above. I was advised against it by some employees at my local home brew ...
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closed keg fermentation - is it taking place?
long story short - primed the keg with sugar, let it raise up to temperature, can't hear any gargling. IS my sugar carbonation taking place or all the old yeasts have died ?
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removing sugar / dead yeasts / residues from keg
Due to some CO2 cylinder carbonation problems I have resorted to the desperate method of pouring sugar into the keg. Which is probably bad, as I have found out here all I needed was lower temperatures ...
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Bringing Cold Crashed Beer to Room Temperature
So I cold crashed and force carbed a saison recently, but after trying a glass I realized that it might be a little young and too funky. I took the keg out of the fridge and let it warm to room ...
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cider keg carbonation problem
I have applied a method seen on youtube where the keg was laid down and rocked by foot rolling it back and forth for about 5 minutes. Trouble is I did not get much bubbles after about letting it ...
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1/4 MFL to 1/4 MFL does not fit 1/4 FFL to barb. Why?
For my co2 closed transfer setup, I was expecting to be able to screw those 2 items together (male to female):
https://www.ontariobeerkegs.com/Stainless_Steel_Flared_Union_1_4_MFL_x_1_4_MFL_p/ss-1-4-m-...
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Fixing a "Watery" beer
I brewed a V2 of this NEIPA I was trying to improve and it's currently sitting in the keg awaiting bottling.
I brewed on new equipment and I had less boil off than expected so I had maybe a .75-1gal ...
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Should I leave serving pressure on after carbing beer or cider?
I have been brewing for a number of years, bottling most of my beer. I turned to kegging my beer about two years ago. Mostly, everything is fine, however, recently while carbing a batch of beer I didn’...
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kegged cider and oxygen
first timer at both cider and kegs.
I have been reading that pumping oxygen (air) into a keg as the beer level goes down in order to maintain carbonation is bad as the oxygen will reignite the ...
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How to fully carbonate a keg with no beer line at very low serving pressure?
I use a tap attached directly to my corny keg (similar to this: https://barleyhaven.com/corny-keg-faucet-tap-ball-lock.html). That means I have my serving pressure at 10kpa.
My carbonation method is ...
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Keg filling auto shut off
I'm looking for an auto shut off for keg filling. Not the little ball and site glass thing from GW Kent, and not a $20k fully automated machine for commercial breweries. Just a simple electrical ...
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Is it necessary to condition if kegging in Cornelius with CO2?
I finished lagering and my recipe/ method says after lagering until desired clarity is reached then bottle and add required amount of sugar and condition at room temperature for at least a week.
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Gassing kegs of beer
I am really new to using kegs and gas. I forgot to gas the keg and 1 week later attached the gas but the beer will not carbonate. Taste is good and puts a head on when poured which lasts for a while ...
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Clear Beer Hazy After Carbonation
I made a Belgium Grisette, which I have made before. This time I let it sit in the keg under CO2 for a couple of months, as I was out of town. When I returned, I opened the keg, beer was very, very ...
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Should I lube the gaskets of my kegs?
I am new to kegging my beer. In a video I saw somebody putting Vaseline on all of the gaskets of his corny-kegs. I was wondering if this kills the foam of the beer. Or do I have to lube the gaskets ...
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Force carbonating then bottling
I've run into a "bottled yesterday" situation and I need to have 2 12oz bottles for an event tomorrow. The beer in question is a NEIPA.
How would I calculate the PSI needed for a crank and shake if I ...
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How to bottle from nitro as a homebrewer?
Does anybody know how to bottle from nitro?
I have a nitro beer that I enjoy from my kegerator on a 75:25 N:CO2 gas blend. So far all attempts to bottle this beer on the nitro mix has failed (using ...
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Why is the tubing diameter for a cold plate different on input and output?
I'm making a parts list to make a jockey box out of a spare cooler. I noticed that both Northern Brewer and Micromatic recommend different tubing sizes for the input to the cold plate and the output ...
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Serving through a carbonation stone
Are there any disadvantages to leaving a diffuser stone (0.5micron) in the keg for serving? The one I had bought is attached to a replacement SS dip tube and permanently in the keg.
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How to eliminate stiff foam from kegerator?
I have a kegerator that holds two, five gallon kegs. The kegs are charged at 25 psi CO2 for two weeks at 70°F (21°C). When I place a keg in the kegerator I release the pressure on the keg. Once ...
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How badly did I oxidize my beer?
I think I oxidized my whole keg. I was attempting a closed transfer but the beer stopped going into the keg so I decided to change the tube but totally forgot about the air in the tube. So when I ...
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Kegging an 11% stout
Stupid question...but I am making an 11% stout with bourbon oak added. I have never kegged anything higher than a 7% so not sure what to expect.
Will the higher abv allow it to last longer in the ...
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What to use for quick gas line disconnect, barb on both sides?
My current setup is:
CO2 tank -> regulator -> barb -> tube -> ball lock disconnect ->
keg -> ball lock disconnect -> tube -> barb -> faucet
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Kegs head space
Could I buy a 16 gallon keg and only fill it with 10 gallons of beer and just fill all the headspace with co2? Will this cause the beer to absorb too much and be too carbonated?
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Storing beer in a keg
After beer is done fermenting can I move it to a keg not carbonate it and let it sit for a long time? Or could it sit for a longer period of time after being carbonated?
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Carbonation in a 5 gallon keg with priming sugar
If I purchased a 5 gallon keg online could I carbonate the fermented beer by adding the required amount of priming sugar to the keg? Do I need a CO2 tank or will I be fine just carbonating it with ...
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Bottling after kegging
I have kegged a nut brown ale and it turned out awesome. I would like to put some of it in bottles to save it and ship to friends. Is that possible? Would I need to do anything to it before putting it ...
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Using beer gas in a soda stream
There is documentation online on how to connect a soda stream to a large CO2 tank. I was wondering if this could be done using using tank with 'beer gas', co2/nitrogen, mix and would give the ...
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Someone wants me to brew them a batch, what logistics can be used?
I have not seen anything on this subject, but recently I had a beer tasting and there were several people that wanted a batch for parties or weddings. How do you handle the logistics with such ...
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At what pressure reading should I refill my CO2 tank?
It seems like the pressure reading seems to go from ~400 to 0 when I'm not looking, but some of the regulators have a red area, marking when pressure is low. I ask because I had to order a new ...
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Lack of head from under carbonation? A force carb question
I just brewed by first DIPA, which is batch number 3 for me when it comes to all-grain brewing. I've forced carbonated before, but this is the first time I tried to speed up the process by agitating ...
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How does keg lube help gaskets to seal on a keg?
How, from a physical standpoint, does keg lube help a gasket to seal better on a keg?
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To Keg or not to Keg
I've got a very lovely and quite potent American IPA that I've brewed several times now, from experience I know it'll get down to 1.006 in about 2 weeks if the temp is ideal.
The brew has been in for ...
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Can a keg a 1 gallon batch in a 5 gal keg?
I a small batch of 1-gallon that I'd like to force carbonate rather than prime it in bottles. Is it ok to force carbonate? I realize I may be wasting some CO2, but I'm ok with it. If it is ok, do I ...
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Beer clearing in a fermenter or a keg?
I am working on clearing my beer, started using Whirlfloc, giving it time, etc in the primary. I read about some allowing beer to clear in a keg, doesn't the keg get clogged with the settlings? If ...
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Filter plugging from co2 pressure
I have been fermenting in a 42 Blichmann and when transferring the beer I plug the 1 micron filter with yeast even though I have
dumped most of trub and yeast during the 3 weeks of fermenting. I use ...
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Kegging, does the beer need to be clear?
Going to start kegging after many years of bottling beer. Watching YouTube, a brewer spoke of letting the beer "clear" for a few weeks before serving. I assumed he meant that he was cold crashing it ...
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Dented Corny Keg
I ordered some new corny kegs and a couple of them arrived with a dent in their side. I was wondering (hoping) if anyone knew of a method of removing those dents.
Thanks in advance!
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Replace current quick disconnect barb with 5/16" barb
I recently bought a length of hose for connecting my regulator to my quick disconnects. The hose fits snug on the regulator barb but is very loose on the quick disconnect barb.
Here is the hose - 5/...
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Carbonating keg without having it hooked up
I have a kegerator made for one keg. However it holds 2 so I like to have one near ready when the primary keg goes empty. My question is. If I transfer my latest beer batch from the secondary to my ...
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