I am a complete noob to kegging. But, I got a complete setup, went to "airgas" and bought a CO2 tank. After hooking everything up and dialing in the regulator my beer began to pressurize (as I assume is normal).
I started out at 30 psi to force carb for the first 24 hours and then I was going to dial back down to 13 or so psi. I purged the kegs and dialed back in to 13 psi and let things repressurize. I came back a few hours later to find that the regulator had crept up to around 40 psi. I purged everything again and turned the CO2 tank to off. Again everything repressurized to around 30 psi. Throughout this whole process whenever I poured beer I got nothing but very creamy head as can be seen in the first two pictures. After messing around with this over the past few days I can't think of anything that could cause such very small bubbles and nothing but head other than maybe I got a nitrogen blend instead of just CO2. I don't know what it looks like to pour nitrogen carbed beer out of a picnic tap, but if I had to guess I would assume it looked something like this.
Can you guys offer any other insight into this? I am really at a loss at this point.
I started out at 30 psi to force carb for the first 24 hours and then I was going to dial back down to 13 or so psi. I purged the kegs and dialed back in to 13 psi and let things repressurize. I came back a few hours later to find that the regulator had crept up to around 40 psi. I purged everything again and turned the CO2 tank to off. Again everything repressurized to around 30 psi. Throughout this whole process whenever I poured beer I got nothing but very creamy head as can be seen in the first two pictures. After messing around with this over the past few days I can't think of anything that could cause such very small bubbles and nothing but head other than maybe I got a nitrogen blend instead of just CO2. I don't know what it looks like to pour nitrogen carbed beer out of a picnic tap, but if I had to guess I would assume it looked something like this.
Can you guys offer any other insight into this? I am really at a loss at this point.