Beer not carbonating

[poole]

Hi all,

I am relatively new to home brewing and I have done a few kits now (mainly largers, pilsners etc). I have a set up with a CO2 rig but although the CO2 is giving the head the beer tastes flat and not carbonated.

I am putting priming sugar into my keg before barrelling but unsure where I am going wrong.

 

[Rwilts]

Are you putting the keg somewhere warm to carbonate before putting it on the co2?

 

[RichardM]

How long are you leaving it in the keg before pouring your first pint?
Are you putting the CO2 on as soon as you keg it? If so what temperature and pressure?

 

[poole]

Are you putting the keg somewhere warm to carbonate before putting it on the co2?

I have left it a week in room temp conditions before putting it in the garage for around 2 weeks.

 

[poole]

How long are you leaving it in the keg before pouring your first pint?
Are you putting the CO2 on as soon as you keg it? If so what temperature and pressure?

Hi, I am leaving it in the keg for 2/3 weeks. Should I be adding anything when kegging with the findings?

 

[AnimatedGIF]

How are you serving? How much beer line and of what diameter? What pressure are you serving at?

 

[Leon103]

Is it a keg or a barrel?

 

[Buffers brewery]

When I transfer to a pressure barrel after cold crashing the fermented beer, it takes at least 3 days, sometimes four, at 20C before I see signs of carbonation (pressure rise). I leave my beer for two weeks to carbonate at 20C before conditioning for at least another 2 weeks at 10C.

 

[poole]

Is it a keg or a barrel?

I'm putting it into a Corny keg to serve via tap.

 

[poole]

How are you serving? How much beer line and of what diameter? What pressure are you serving at?

Hi, I am serving it via a kegerator, there is around 1m of line I'd that.

 

[AnimatedGIF]

Hi, I am serving it via a kegerator, there is around 1m of line I'd that.

And what diameter is the line?

 

[Leon103]

How full did you full the keg, perhaps it was overfilled. Set to 40psi, and roll keg for 60 seconds. Leave settle for few hours, release pressure and pour.

 

[poole]

And what diameter is the line?

0.25

 

[Rwilts]

Sound like you have done it about right, any chance the keg wasn't sealed and the pressure has vented during secondary fermentation?

 

[RichardM]

How full did you full the keg, perhaps it was overfilled. Set to 40psi, and roll keg for 60 seconds. Leave settle for few hours, release pressure and pour.

How full is "overfilled" and what effect will it have on carbonation?

 

[AnimatedGIF]

0.25

0.25 what? Metres? Feet, Inches?

 

[Leon103]

How full is "overfilled" and what effect will it have on carbonation?

Over the gas pipe. My thinking is that you want the headspace to fill with co2 which is absorbed and replaced with more co2. If beer is past the pipe then it wouldn't be filling up.

 

[Agentgonzo]

How are you serving? How much beer line and of what diameter? What pressure are you serving at?

And what diameter is the line?

0.25 what? Metres? Feet, Inches?

Keep going... You'll get the answer eventually

 

[AnimatedGIF]

Keep going... You'll get the answer eventually

By this point I am thinking it's too much effort to get the required information

 

[poole]

0.25 what? Metres? Feet, Inches?

Hi sorry. 0.25 inch diameter pipe. Only running it from a keg in a kegerator so about a meter of pipe to the taps.