Introduction to Kegging Pt 4 - Carbonating Your Beer

In this last part of my four part kegging series, I fill the keg and talk about the different ways of carbonating the beer. I use the roll method at room temp and got good results. Check out the StarSan Serpent I got while filling the keg.

Link to a great site where you can read about kegging, and the tables I promised are here.
http://morebeer.com/themes/morewinepro//kegging.pdf
http://www.kegerators.com/carbonation-table.php

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[pengxiong675]

Hi. I'm about ready to keg and was wondering to save space. Can I pressurize the Keg, take off the gas and beer line and store the keg in the fridge? When ready to drink pull it out and put back the lines and pour? Or do i have to store the entire thing, keg, lines attached, and co2 tank in the fridge? THanks!

[CraigTube]

@pengxiong675 It's fine to just keep the keg cold, and pull it out when you want to dispense. If the beer in your line is warm you might get some foam at first.

[spillsndebris]

Great videos Craig! You answered so many of my questions and took the mystery out of kegging. Thanks for the great info and fantastic videos.

[greg0819]

great video, Craig. I have kegged only once and will be kegging tomorrow again. I always use your info and videos as a refresher. It gets me pumped and ready to go again. Thanks for help and hard work.

[Gunjji]

Thank you Craig! Awesome Video man... Everything I wanted to know about keg/carbonation was explained.

[Mastinox803]

@Mastinox803 BTW you do this with the corny in the fridge/keezer and you dont have to lift the heavy sob. Lifting a full corny into a keezer with a 12 inch collar sucks.

[Mastinox803]

Sanitize your corny and then stick it in fridge. Hook your racking cane line up to ball lock. After the keg has chilled there is a slight vacuum. Put the racking cane in the beer bucket and hook up ball lock end to the "out" fitting on corny. The vacuum will prime your siphon automatically and being that you are hooked up to the out, the dip tube will allow the beer to enter at the very bottom of the keg. Once siphon is established, pop the lid on the corny.

[Lagerlederen]

Thx:)

[tnm140]

carig in general how long do you ferment your beer before you keg it??? Just watching these keg vids aagin as im gonna get back into kegging, i forgot how long I waited last time. Yhanks Todd