bigringking
Active Member
I mixed up my 3rd batch of Gnome Root Beer extract last weekend, cooled it off, gently rolled the keg on my lap for 5 mins as I put 30PSI CO2 to it, then put it in the kegerator at 4*C for the last 5 days. It is dead flat after checking it yesterday and then today. I push the root beer at 30PSI through 30' of 3/16" beer line to a picnic tap. I know there is gas in the keg, I know the root beer is not frozen on top preventing gas getting to the liquid. I don't think that I'm loosing gas through the liquid line but I do have a pretty new 20# CO2 bottle that I recently hooked up. So it could possibly be leaking out into the kegerator (10 CF Chest freezer) and just hasn't run out yet.
In case the recipe has anything to do with it, it is (2.5 gallon batch):
2 fl oz Gnome extract
1.5# white sugar
.5# brown sugar
5 fl oz honey
1T vanilla
2.0 oz (weight) maltodextrine
1 gal water to 130*F
Cool, top up with 1.5G cold water
Carbonate.
Any thoughts on what may be wrong? My previous two batches carbonated up just fine - if even a little too bubbly. Recipe was mostly the same other than changing the water quantity from exactly 2.5 to 2.75, and upping the maltodextrine to 2.0 oz by weight on this last one. All the other ingredients were from the same source container (sugars, honey, etc).
Thanks,
Bigringking
In case the recipe has anything to do with it, it is (2.5 gallon batch):
2 fl oz Gnome extract
1.5# white sugar
.5# brown sugar
5 fl oz honey
1T vanilla
2.0 oz (weight) maltodextrine
1 gal water to 130*F
Cool, top up with 1.5G cold water
Carbonate.
Any thoughts on what may be wrong? My previous two batches carbonated up just fine - if even a little too bubbly. Recipe was mostly the same other than changing the water quantity from exactly 2.5 to 2.75, and upping the maltodextrine to 2.0 oz by weight on this last one. All the other ingredients were from the same source container (sugars, honey, etc).
Thanks,
Bigringking