{"id":3149,"date":"2011-01-17T21:29:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T02:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2011-01-17T21:29:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T02:29:17","slug":"rebuilt-keg-force-carbonation-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/rebuilt-keg-force-carbonation-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilt Keg, Force Carbonation Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/food\/brewing_beer\/IMG_5853.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/96150-2\/IMG_5853.jpg\" height=640 width=427 border=0 title=\"Force carbonation test of ~5 gallons of filtered tap water with 15psi of CO2.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>When I <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/28\/carbonating-kegging-supplies\/\">purchased my beer kegging supplies<\/a> the keg came used, complete with some flavor of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada_Dry\">Canada Dry<\/a> residual liquid sloshing around inside. It&#8217;s common to buy used kegs for home brewing, and I knew that before I used it I&#8217;d have to rebuild it and replace all the o-rings to ensure no off flavors contaminate the beer.<\/p>\n<p>This evening I pulled the keg apart, scrubbed all parts with a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sodium_percarbonate\">sodium percarbonate<\/a> solution, then reassembled it with food-safe grease and new seals. After assembly and pressure testing I filled it with filtered tap water and set it up as seen above. This 15psi supply of CO<sub>2<\/sub> should force carbonate the water to 2.5 volumes (or so) of CO<sub>2<\/sub>, depending on how cold the water actually ends up. After proving out that this method works I&#8217;ll then try it on one of the future batches of beer, carbonating it either in the garage or a kegerator, if I assemble one.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on force carbonating, take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homebrew.com\/articles\/article12018101.shtml\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I purchased my beer kegging supplies the keg came used, complete with some flavor of Canada Dry residual liquid sloshing around inside. It&#8217;s common&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/rebuilt-keg-force-carbonation-test\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rebuilt Keg, Force Carbonation Test<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","category-food","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}