Got major head

[michaelseth]

I recently purchase a bevrage-air to dispense my homebrew. Before this, I generally pressured my cornys up to 12-15psi. When I dispensed, I would relief pressure to about 4-6psi.
With my upgrade, I want to find a better solution. I have been reading this forum and the general concesus is to push your beer at 12-15psi, which seems to give me nothing but head. Beer temp 35, tested with two regulators, and it seems to just barrel out of the air-cooled T-style flacet. I live at sea-level and know that the beer, kegs, and lines are clean.
Any suggestions?

[Scott Zuhse]

First we need to know what brand of beer you are dispensing and second, if your temperaure is 35F liquid. Calibrate your thermometer in glass filled with ice then water. Should read 32F. Adjust thermometer accordingly or fudge if you cannot calibrate. addionally, what lenght is the 3/16" I.D. tubing? Five Feet?

If you are dispensing a typical american lager at about 2.5 vols. of carbon dioxide @ 35F liquid, your pressure should be close to 12 PSIG. Please reply.

Scott Zuhse, Instructor Micro Matic Dispense Institute

[flashlite]

he said he is despensing "homebrew". i do too. and i find that it depends on how you fermented your brew and how it is conditioned. do you use corn sugar to carbonate? this can also cause big head. it's hard to believe you have your beer at 35 degrees, that is hard to acomplish. i despense my homebrew at about 10 psi with 2' of 3/16" tubing and if i turn it up to 12 psi it's to much and i get a big head. let me know how long of a ferment you do and how you condition.

[cruzinthegalaxie]

I run my homebrew through 3/16" tubing about 6'. I have a Johnson A419 controlling a chest freezer at 38 degrees. If I run 8-10psi I am usually in pretty good shape. One thing that I can tell you is that if you over-carbonate the beer it will foam up as well.

I like to force carbonate my homebrew by cranking it up to 30psi in the keg and then disconnecting the feed, shake up the keg... wait a day or so and then repeat as needed. I don't use any priming.

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