I have moved from bottling to kegging my beer, and have a corny keg and a Co2 cylinder with regulator. I have used calculators online to determine the correct pressure setting for carbonation, depending on beer style, and, after determining the temperature the carbonation will happen at, I set this pressure and leave my keg connected for a few days. ie I am happy with step one, which is carbonating my beer. Dispensing it from the keg is a different story...
I shut off my gas supply, vent my corny keg (lots of gas escapes with a big hiss) but then when I tap out beer I get an almighty gush and a big glass of foam. For some reason, even if the headspace pressure is elininated by venting, I get flow out of my keg which is way too fast.
Given the Co2 from carbonation should be in the beer itself, this shouldn't happen. Do I need longer lines from my keg to my tap (or thicker ones)? But then I would have to change these for each carbonation style if I wanted the same dispensing pressure.
Is it the nozzle on my tap that diffuses the beer perhaps, and makes it too foamy?
Any ideas most welcome.
I shut off my gas supply, vent my corny keg (lots of gas escapes with a big hiss) but then when I tap out beer I get an almighty gush and a big glass of foam. For some reason, even if the headspace pressure is elininated by venting, I get flow out of my keg which is way too fast.
Given the Co2 from carbonation should be in the beer itself, this shouldn't happen. Do I need longer lines from my keg to my tap (or thicker ones)? But then I would have to change these for each carbonation style if I wanted the same dispensing pressure.
Is it the nozzle on my tap that diffuses the beer perhaps, and makes it too foamy?
Any ideas most welcome.