Hi everyone. Kind of a random question here. I carbonate my beer at around 30 psi for a few days and then reduce the pressure to serving pressure, usually around 12 psi. What I’m not quite sure of is whether I should be purging the keg when I reduce the pressure.
My common sense is telling me that if I reduce the pressure but I don’t purge the keg I still have 30 psi of pressure in the keg. I see a lot of posts about “reducing to serving pressure” but it’s never mentioned whether the keg should be purged at that time to release the higher pressure so that it is replaced with the lower pressure. Again, this does feel a bit like common sense, but I just thought I would post here to see if I’m thinking about this the right way. Thank you.
My common sense is telling me that if I reduce the pressure but I don’t purge the keg I still have 30 psi of pressure in the keg. I see a lot of posts about “reducing to serving pressure” but it’s never mentioned whether the keg should be purged at that time to release the higher pressure so that it is replaced with the lower pressure. Again, this does feel a bit like common sense, but I just thought I would post here to see if I’m thinking about this the right way. Thank you.