Smithwicks?

[PGMaine]

I just returned from Ireland where I enjoyed a great deal of Smithwicks and have been thinking about getting it for my next keg. I have read a few people here allude to Smithwicks requiring mixed gas. I am wondering whether I can run this with straight CO2 and if anyone knows the approximate level? Thanks.

[TAPMAN]

Smithwicks should run fine on your system if you have no problems running other beers. You will need a '' U '' coupler ( the same as Guinness ), but straight CO2 will work. Tapman

[PGMaine]

I already have a U coupler as I run Harp fairly often and my system has run perfectly for any of the beers I have put through. I assume usual levels of pressure?

[edramshaw]

Usual pressures will work for Smithwicks.

[PGMaine]

Thank you all for the help.

[robalf]

smithwicks??

So I have a guinness, guiness gas and U tap, set up and a regular, sankay and Co2 double tap. I had beer emergency and had to get smithwicks instead of the micorbrew I had ordered. So I hooked smithwicks up in place of my guiness tap, but it is REALLY foamy. I had looked up online a while back and supposedly you could do use guiness gas. Is ther a setting or something that I can do. I was thinking it was becuase I hooked it up right before the party and maybe it was shook up. Next day though it still seems too foamy.

Any help would be appreciated.

Rob

[Scott Zuhse]

Smithwick will not dispense from a stout faucet if this is what you are attempting. At 38F beer in keg, 100% CO2 around 13 PSIG dispensed from a conventional faucet should do. Does not require blend.

[skibumdc]

Why can't he just remove the restrictor disk from the stout faucet and use it that way?
It will then just look like a stout faucet but pour like a regular faucet?

[Scott Zuhse]

Both the restrictor plate and flow straightener would require removal. Since the spout diameter is smaller than a conventional faucet, flow speed may be quicker than desired. May not be an issue.

[jyanich]

Smithwicks on mixed gas

Soo... Can Smithwicks be ran on the same blended gas as Guinness?
Also, if I am needing to buy both mixed gas and straight CO2 (assuming you say no to my first question)... I have two nitrogen regulators... can I get CO2 in a tank that will fit the threads on my nitrogen regulator??

So I have a guinness, guiness gas and U tap, set up and a regular, sankay and Co2 double tap. I had beer emergency and had to get smithwicks instead of the micorbrew I had ordered. So I hooked smithwicks up in place of my guiness tap, but it is REALLY foamy. I had looked up online a while back and supposedly you could do use guiness gas. Is ther a setting or something that I can do. I was thinking it was becuase I hooked it up right before the party and maybe it was shook up. Next day though it still seems too foamy.

Any help would be appreciated.

Rob

[Scott Zuhse]

Smithwicks is an ale with a carbonation level of 2.4 volumes. Requires CO2 @ 12 PSIG @ 38F. Adjust one PSIG for every two degree change in temperature. Up for warmer, down for colder.

Ask gas vendor if the will fill nitrogen cylinder.

[pangleaa]

Usual pressures will work for Smithwicks.

You will need a '' U '' coupler ( the same as Guinness ), but straight CO2 will work. Tapman

[djc]

I'm sure he is good with that now, it was 4.5 years ago.

[Sketch]

Just a spammer.

[BlarneyStoneVA]

lol damn spammers, is there any reason to run Smithwick's on Mixed Gas? We sell it here and it has always been on mixed but I would love to get some other beers that require Nitro and only have 2 lines with mixed gas and one is Guinness so I can't take that off