Jhonntan Gonzalez
Member
Hello everyone,
I have a 5gal keg, I brewed a Belgian blond ale and it was my first time doing force carbonation, I needed ready in a couple of days so I decided to go with the agitation method, I basically put the keg in the fridge for 24 hours and then connected to gas at 30psi while I shacked the keg for almost 3 minutes. After that, I let the keg to rest for almost one hour and tried then serving at 10 psi, the thing is, the only thing that came out of the keg was foam and beer was tasting as CO2. I decided to give it a second try and a purged the keg for a couple of days until the beer was flat, yesterday I applied the same strategy but shacked just for 2 minutes, beer came out almost flat but still 80% foam.
I was wondering if it is probably a problem with my gas/beer connections or my beer is just over carbonated, do you guys can point me to any resource I can read/watch so I can start learning about force carbonation?
Note: I do not have a fridge that can be used to store beer only that's why I am trying to carbonate the beer as fast as possible so maybe I can store the kegs at room temp.
I have a 5gal keg, I brewed a Belgian blond ale and it was my first time doing force carbonation, I needed ready in a couple of days so I decided to go with the agitation method, I basically put the keg in the fridge for 24 hours and then connected to gas at 30psi while I shacked the keg for almost 3 minutes. After that, I let the keg to rest for almost one hour and tried then serving at 10 psi, the thing is, the only thing that came out of the keg was foam and beer was tasting as CO2. I decided to give it a second try and a purged the keg for a couple of days until the beer was flat, yesterday I applied the same strategy but shacked just for 2 minutes, beer came out almost flat but still 80% foam.
I was wondering if it is probably a problem with my gas/beer connections or my beer is just over carbonated, do you guys can point me to any resource I can read/watch so I can start learning about force carbonation?
Note: I do not have a fridge that can be used to store beer only that's why I am trying to carbonate the beer as fast as possible so maybe I can store the kegs at room temp.