{"id":338,"date":"2014-08-04T22:08:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T02:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2014-08-04T22:08:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T02:08:11","slug":"kegging-my-first-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Kegging my first beer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m now set up for kegging beer, and am putting a brown ale into a keg.  I want to hurry things along.  Kegging usually takes 1-2 weeks, but I want the beer ready in 5 days.  To speed things along, I&#8217;m doubling the pressure to 20 psi for the first two days, lowing the temperature, and shaking the keg a few times a day.  After the first two days, I&#8217;ll reduce pressure to 10 psi.  If I shake it after that and CO2 still goes in, I haven&#8217;t over carbonated.  I&#8217;ll bring the temperature up to 38F the last day.<\/p>\n<p>Here are instructions I found:<br \/>\n<a href=\"pics\/kegging.pdf\"><br \/>\nKegging instructions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A carbonation table: <a href=\"www.kegerators.com\/carbonation-table.php\">Handy-Dandy Slow Force Carbonation Chart featuring Pressure vs. Temperature<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brewersfriend.com\/2009\/07\/18\/getting-a-good-pour-kegged-beer-co2-line-length-and-pressure\/\">Getting A Good Pour \u2013 Kegged Beer CO2 Line Length and Pressure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cold and a long tap line help reduce foaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m now set up for kegging beer, and am putting a brown ale into a keg. I want to hurry things along. Kegging usually takes 1-2 weeks, but I want the beer ready in 5 days. To speed things along, I&#8217;m doubling the pressure to 20 psi for the first two days, lowing the temperature, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}