Carbonation Keg lid
Carbonation Keg lid
Hi,
has anyone on here used one of these? https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product ... ion-stone/
What was your experience? Was it worth buying?
has anyone on here used one of these? https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product ... ion-stone/
What was your experience? Was it worth buying?
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Re: Carbonation Keg lid
Isn't it the same as connecting the gas to the 'Out" post to force carbonate?
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Not quite. There's an air stone on the end of the pipe. It will diffuse the gas into the beer faster. Or that's the idea anyway. I wondered if it actually works
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Why not buy an airstone, a length of gas tubing and attach it to the gas tube on your existing cornie lid? I'm sure that'll come to a lot less than £27.
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Would that work when applying gas for serving. I'm wondering if some of the serving gas would tend to dissolve into the beer and over carbonate it.
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Well with the linked device you'd still have to change to the normal lid for serving, so if doing what I suggested just open it and take off the tube and remove stone and tube for serving.
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I think you could leave the carbonation lid on and use the normal gas input for serving. But I take your point that you probably wouldn't want to.
I'm not that familiar with the internals of the keg, could you get a gas line onto the inside of the input and off again without dipping your hands in the beer?
I'm not that familiar with the internals of the keg, could you get a gas line onto the inside of the input and off again without dipping your hands in the beer?
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You'd need to reattach the gas bottle every few pints as the pressure would drop and you'd get no beer out.
Best way would be to take off the lid and withdraw the tube/stone assembly altogether, remove tube and replace the lid.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't see the point of that product at all - I suppose if you were desperate to get some beer carbonated very quickly and didn't mind paying 27 quid for the privilege it might help. But most people would just inject gas into the normal gas in, roll the keg, and repeat a few times.
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How long does it take to carbonate your beer doing that, Jim? I'm pretty new to kegging and it takes about 7 days of gassing it, leaving to absorb, gassing again etc for me.
Re: Carbonation Keg lid
I've never done it myself, but I believe you can do it in a few hours as long as you chill the keg.
Here's a how-to link from oz. - https://brewerschoice.com.au/keg-gassin ... rbonation/
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Re: Carbonation Keg lid
It may well condition a beer with co2 a little quicker but i would question if said beers would be fully mature and ready to quaff without at least the usual week or so of conditioning in the keg.
ist update for months n months..
Fermnting: not a lot..
Conditioning: nowt
Maturing: Challenger smash, and a kit lager
Drinking: dry one minikeg left in the store
Coming Soon Lots planned for the near future nowt for the immediate
Fermnting: not a lot..
Conditioning: nowt
Maturing: Challenger smash, and a kit lager
Drinking: dry one minikeg left in the store
Coming Soon Lots planned for the near future nowt for the immediate
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Re: Carbonation Keg lid
Agreed Fil. That was purely on the subject of rapid carbonisation.
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