ok, so after a lot of reading on this website i bought the parts to build a jockey box with a 50' coil. on Friday we iced down the box and keg and tapped it. let it settle and came back a few hours later to find my co2 bottle had bled out. my mistake for not leak checking. got a new co2 bottle and set the pressure at 12 psi. the first few beers were ok with some foam but all was ok. tried to increase the pressure to 15 psi and this didn't seem to change the foam amount. tried to decrease the pressure to 7 psi and the foam changed but not really an improvement. we did wait awhile between pressure changes to see how things changed and settled out. finally looked up on the charts and needed to take more temperature readings. my beer was flowing well and coming out at 37 degrees. the keg was in a water bath at 54 degrees. the chart i found online said 21 psi was required for miller lite at 54 degrees keg temp. set my regulator to this and had very little foam, this seemed to be the perfect pressure / temperature setting. by the time we changed to 21 psi the keg was less than half full.
we tried the flashlight test at all of the pressures and still had little bubbles of gas coming out of solution at the lower pressures, at 21 psi we had no bubbles.
my question is for a jockey box set up, should i be running such a high pressure if i cant keep the keg cool? i have the keg in an ice chest but after a day the ice is gone and just a water bath is left. i am trying to use the jockey box over a long 3 day weekend, will i need to keep the keg iced down as well as the jockey box? should i be basing my co2 pressure setting on the keg temp or the beer temp?
thanks for any tips you can give me.
we tried the flashlight test at all of the pressures and still had little bubbles of gas coming out of solution at the lower pressures, at 21 psi we had no bubbles.
my question is for a jockey box set up, should i be running such a high pressure if i cant keep the keg cool? i have the keg in an ice chest but after a day the ice is gone and just a water bath is left. i am trying to use the jockey box over a long 3 day weekend, will i need to keep the keg iced down as well as the jockey box? should i be basing my co2 pressure setting on the keg temp or the beer temp?
thanks for any tips you can give me.
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