New to kegging...need the army!

[gbob]

So, I'm a newb to kegging. Excuse my stupidity.

I've been brewing for a year, from extract to all grain. My beer went from suck, to something I'm damn proud of. Now I have kegs, and I feel like an idiot.

the beer out of my keg seems to be cloudy and without a good head. The same beer in bottles has a fabulous head, great lacing, and a fabulous taste. My kegged beer? It's cloudy, yeasty, and doesn't taste as fresh. Now, it seems to me that beer in a keg will have the same yeast deposits that beer in a bottle will, except that the CO2 will agitate it in a keg, making each beer I pull the same as beer from a bottle that I shook up. A, I wrong about this? If so, what should I do to change it?

Thanks, my brewing brothers. I want this to be the summer of draft beer, but frankly it isn't as good yet.

[SunkenBier]

Bringing the keg to a temperature such as 39 will allow all the yeast to settle to the bottom, this will take a little time though. If you move the kegs again you will stir them back into solution a bit. Your first few pours from the keg should clear out all the chunks that settled.

Was the beer carbonated enough that you were expecting the good head? Ensure you have the proper c02 level set for the temperature your storing the beer. Then you have to add in the factor that the serving line for the beverage out will strip carbonation from the beer. For every foot of line used the co2 of the beer is stripped a bit.

This site should help you do the math for figuring out your serving line length.
http://hbd.org/clubs/franklin/public_ht ... lance.html

[Brandon]

This site should help you do the math for figuring out your serving line length.
http://hbd.org/clubs/franklin/public_ht ... lance.html

Linky not worky for me

[Bugeater]

Here are the kegging links.

http://hbd.org/clubs/franklin/public_ht ... lance.html
http://hbd.org/carboy/ballkegclean.htm
http://www.ipass.net/%7Empdixon/Homebrew/Lubricants.htm
http://www.ipass.net/mpdixon/KegThreadSizes.htm
http://www.hbd.org/carboy/kegpresstester.htm
http://www.bodensatz.com/staticpages/in ... =Soda-Kegs
http://www.ebrew.com/primarynews/ct_car ... _chart.htm
http://www.shagg.net/brewing/?p=10
http://cruisenews.net/brewing/kegging/index.php
http://kegman.net/balance.html
http://www.schwedhelm.net/brew/freezerator.html
http://www.homebrew.com/pdfs/CO2chart.pdf

Wayne

[Brandon]

Here are the kegging links.

http://hbd.org/clubs/franklin/public_ht ... lance.html
http://hbd.org/carboy/ballkegclean.htm
http://www.ipass.net/%7Empdixon/Homebrew/Lubricants.htm
http://www.ipass.net/mpdixon/KegThreadSizes.htm
http://www.hbd.org/carboy/kegpresstester.htm
http://www.bodensatz.com/staticpages/in ... =Soda-Kegs
http://www.ebrew.com/primarynews/ct_car ... _chart.htm
http://www.shagg.net/brewing/?p=10
http://cruisenews.net/brewing/kegging/index.php
http://kegman.net/balance.html
http://www.schwedhelm.net/brew/freezerator.html
http://www.homebrew.com/pdfs/CO2chart.pdf

Wayne

Is that all?

[Bugeater]

Only the major ones. Want the rest?

Wayne

[SunkenBier]

This site should help you do the math for figuring out your serving line length.
http://hbd.org/clubs/franklin/public_ht ... lance.html

Linky not worky for me

Sorry about that
http://hbd.org/clubs/franklin/public_html/docs/balance.html

[edisonst]

I am also somewhat new to kegging and had the same issues at first. I believe that it has to do with the distance the yeast has to drop before the beer clears up. Bottles settle out quickly as they are only several inches high while the keg it tall and thin and takes more time to clear. I find that the latter 25 percent of the keg is crystal clear, and the last pint is perfect. I have become more patient, and keep more beer in the pipeline so that I can increase my conditioning time without having my tap run dry while I wait. Just my own 2 cents.