by Guest » Thursday Nov 11, 2004 10:41 pm
It depends on many things
1. How cold do you like your beer, the colder the more CO2 you can dissolve therefore less pressure required.
2. How carbonated you like your beer, North American style brews are more carbonated as a rule of thumb than say British Ales.
3 Diameter and length and shape of hose. Longer hose runs, uphill will lead to a loss at pressure at the tap.
Ultimately you need to deliver beer at the tap oulet at about 1 oz a sec.
So try carbonating a 35 F degree beer at 12 psi and use six or so to deliver it. If it is to slow, increase the psi until you are happy. Point to note, if you have it deliver to fast you will flatten the beer.
Rapid carbonation,
Hook up your CO2 tank and roll your keg full of beer around the floor for about 20 min. You will here the gas bubbling into the beer. When it stops your beer will be carbonated. Note, let sit for two hours refrigerated before serving.
MMMMM Good
Dogger
PS Hope you didn't get the dreaded POS Cobra Tap