lovebrewin
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Can you just pressurize the keg to say 35psi disconnect the co2 bottle and leave the keg to carb or does it not work like that???
Carbing in the keg question???
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Doesn't work like that.
20 liters of beer at an "average" carbonation level holds 50 liters (@STP) of dissolved CO2. While some of that was already in the beer from fermentation, the rest has to come from the gas bottle.
And in a typical Cornelius keg, there's only a liter or less of head space to fill with gas (albeit at higher than 1 ATM), so if you don't leave the gas connected that beer will never carb up to a servable level.
fwiw, carbing at serving temperature and constant CO2 pressure to achieve a typical 2.5 volume carbonation level takes me two weeks to be "ready" and another week to be "perfect". There are ways to speed that up considerably, but that ain't my thang
Cheers!
20 liters of beer at an "average" carbonation level holds 50 liters (@STP) of dissolved CO2. While some of that was already in the beer from fermentation, the rest has to come from the gas bottle.
And in a typical Cornelius keg, there's only a liter or less of head space to fill with gas (albeit at higher than 1 ATM), so if you don't leave the gas connected that beer will never carb up to a servable level.
fwiw, carbing at serving temperature and constant CO2 pressure to achieve a typical 2.5 volume carbonation level takes me two weeks to be "ready" and another week to be "perfect". There are ways to speed that up considerably, but that ain't my thang
Cheers!
