Thank you you helped this newbie out!

Great stuff thank you for sharing.

@Keg-King

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! Any questions, let us know :)

I have two keg taps. I have a half full keg on the left and just installed a second keg on the right side. Now that the new right keg is installed, the left one wont pour and the right one is extremly foamy and is coming out really fast. Could it be the new keg is too pressurized and it could that effect the entire system?

Hi, thank You for very informative video.I m thinking to use sankey kegs for homebrewing,jwould it be possible to bleed oxigen after keg is filled up and CO2 is connected? I imagine first to fill up with CO and then unscrew CO2 valve on the coupler for release pressure ? Could You please help me with this ? Or shall I consider better to go with Cornelius keg system?

@Keg-King

4 ай бұрын

Go with a pressure fermenter. They're purpose built and have the same hardware on the lids as a corelius keg. Fermenting in corny kegs is something people do, but that doesn't make it the right vessel for the job. Wider and conical are the way. Check out our range here: www.kegking.com.au/fermenters.html

I've had massive foam problems with a full keg of Blue moon I've tried everything but I'll try this. The biggest clue was that I was getting air leaks from my coupler which should have been a clue. my guage only has a low side and still only tells you the pressure going in.

@Keg-King

Жыл бұрын

Foaming can also be about line length, internal tap issues and over-carbonation. The colder the liquid, the more gas it can onboard. This chart is a hand reference when setting pressure to a set and forget carbonation rate. www.kegking.com.au/blog/post/how-to-carbonate-beer-in-a-keg

@AJ11b02

Жыл бұрын

I swear the blue moon keg I just tried about ruined my entire system. I just returned that keg and I am cleaning everything and replacing all my lines. I had solid foam almost every pour with trying EVERYTHING. Sorry to hear this happened to you as well, but I'm glad I'm not alone with it.

I have a Guinness keg which is kept at room temp and ran through a cooler system. The pint usually starts out with the correct size head taste etc but generally deteriorated after 2 weeks or so with the head size reducing. Any ideas why this is? Also if I depressurise the keg and reapply the gas do you think this will bring the Guinness back to life so to speak.

@Keg-King

Жыл бұрын

Hi @tomcally3293. There's a lot of variables affecting your pour including temperature, pressure, line length and time. You'll need to balance the pressure to hold the carbonation at the temperature you're resting the keg. Doing this will balance the pour speed and the carbonation.

My D type tap on my senkey keg has a pressure release valve just like the one one the regulator. I didn't see that option on the ones shown. Am I right in thinking that releasing preasure from that valve would accomplish the same thing?

@Keg-King

2 жыл бұрын

Short answer is yes but you'll still have to turn your cylinder off before you pull the PRV on the coupler. We don't have the PRV on our couplers as a safety precaution in commercial cellar situations where venting off could cause gas pooling.

@edwardhill6945

Жыл бұрын

@@Keg-King Thanks for that last sentence. I too wondered why you didn’t just close the CO2 bottle, then pull the PRV on the coupler, all my couplers have one. I never thought of the suffocation factor of a keg being in an enclosed space & venting. Especially since a commercial operation probably would be using a much larger CO2 bottle.

Is it normal that the co2 produces a sound like that ? Mine makes the same noise but I feel like that’s not normal, thought it was suppose to be silent.

@Keg-King

Жыл бұрын

The dispersion of CO2 will vary in sound depending on the equipment and the process. It can be subtle or it can be pronounced. Check valves and relief valves can definitely hiss and hum when they're active.

As the keg empties, do you need to add more co2 ? Or do you just leave the cannister on the same pressure until the keg empties? I mean, is there enough pressure without continually running the gas to get the beer through the lines? Or you do need to keep adding co2?

@Keg-King

Жыл бұрын

Hi Benny. By setting your regulator to the right pressure for the temperature and carbonation level of the beer, the keg's headspace will get topped up everytime the tap is opened and the pressure starts to drop a bit. If you pressurise and then turn off the gas supply, you'll eventually get a slow pour and mess with the carbonation.

@bennym1326

Жыл бұрын

@@Keg-King thanks for the reply! I appreciate it.

@christophercapobianco2531

2 ай бұрын

Is it ok to set to 10 psi if the keg is already cold?

Will the beer still taste flat and be over pressured? Mine comes out too fast/lots of foam and taste flat

@Keg-King

Жыл бұрын

Carbonation in a keg is really just a balance of pressure, temperature and time. If your beer is flat after pouring too fast with lots of foam it could be you are knocking out the carbonation and the beer itself isn't cold enough to absorb the gas.

Hi mate, why my beer is pouring flat and taste different even though there is co2 and beerlines has been cleaned. Thank you

@Keg-King

7 ай бұрын

Carbonation is a balanced combination of temperature, pressure and gas saturation. Clean beer lines will help you present your beverage in top quality condition, but a good pour is more dependent upon a clean connection at the tap and at the keg, combined with the right amount of line length for the ID of the beverage tubing to create a good pour in a 'balanced' system. If your beer doesn't 'taste' right there could be multiple variables causing that to happen that you will have to mitigate and eliminate. Oxidation, carbonation, age, infection and a host of other possible factors could be affecting the flavour of your beverage.

Can you not just disconnect the gas and hook up a spunding valve and let it sort itself out?

@Keg-King

2 жыл бұрын

Depends on how the gas input is attached to the coupler but in most cases it's easier to bleed off the excess and re-set the pressure. Of course, if your coupler has a PRV on it then you can simply turn off the gas supply and pull the PRV to relieve the headspace pressure.

Do I have to have the keg warm or can I do this while the keg is cold?

@Keg-King

9 ай бұрын

If you have set the pressure too high while the keg was cold and left the keg with the regulator feeding the higher pressure to the headspace for a prolonged period of time, odds are you've over-carbonated your keg. Good luck pouring it. To Un-carbonate the beverage you need to make it go flat. Just like if you leave a glass of beer out at room temp it will warm up and go flat, so too will the keg go flat at a warmer temp except you'll vent the headspace pressure in the keg as the gas comes out of the liquid.

@billyrob4513

9 ай бұрын

@@Keg-King So after I let the keg get room temp, do I hook it back up before or after re-chilling it?

How easy is it to set up a Guinness tap,without cooler

@Keg-King

Ай бұрын

Serving beverages on tap is all about balance. So if you can get the beverage cold without a fridge or a glycol system its just a matter of how you get it out of the tap. You can put the whole keg into a bin of ice and serve with gas or a hand pump or you can move the beer through a cooling device like a chill plate that you keep cold with ice inside an esky like this one: www.kegking.com.au/cast-aluminium-cold-plate-chiller-cooler.html It's not difficult to set something up so you can keep the beer fresh and carbonated with gas as you serve and it's even easier to dispense with a simple hand pump for when you're going to empty the keg in a single session. TLDR: It's not difficult and doesn't require much equipment.

ok when I do this foam is comming out of the area. what does that mean? pressure was good all weekend went to pour one on Thursday and was foam. looked and pressure was 35psi. wtf..... is this keg ruined?

@Keg-King

Ай бұрын

You can always depressurise and allow the keg to warm up, which as it does will release more carbon dioxide. Kind of like when you leave a sparkling beverage out in a glass, it goes flat. You'll need to get the beverage cold again and leave it under pressure so it will once again carbonate and balance at the pressure and temperature that you require. For most kegerator short draw systems, setting the temp to 2C and the pressure to around 8 to10 psi.

@dtkent1

Ай бұрын

@Keg-King this is the 2nd time this happend. reading online it seems to be a regulator issue. Ditching the crap one that came with my unit and ordered a taprite. Hopefully this fixes my problem going foward.