Advice plzz on carbonating

I have no idea what system you're using but it sounds to me like you're doing a dyacetyl rest for the 2 days then dropping the temp for the remainder of your fermentation. Next will be your lagering stage. This can take weeks or months at just above freezing temps. I normally force carbonate the last week or so of the lagering phase. Hope that helps.

Good luck, Wild

I'm guessing that your instructions probably said to put some sugar in with the brew into the pressure barrel. This should put some co2 into it during secondary fermentation for those two days. After the reccomended 8 days you should be able to draw off the beer under its own pressure. When the presure drops (as you remove liquid) you just top up with the screw on co2 cannister ( a couple of one second blasts should be enough). I have found that it is purely for dispensing and makes very little difference to carbobnation levels. Just top up again when the flow from the tap slows.

Hope this helps.

Keith.

Cheers exactly what i needed, but now I have another question my beer isnt very fizzy why I followed the instructions to the letter,I tested a small amount today and it should be about ready now but its flat should I add more sugar or shake it up ???

When you say pressure barrel are you referring to a keg? I am going to make some assumptions here:

Artificial carbonation in a keg pressurize when you rack to keg @ about

25psi for a few days. Sugar carbonation in a keg add 1/3 cup sugar that has been boiled w/ water and wait for the 10 days. Pressure needs to be maintained for the life or it will go flat..

Greg

In my experience with the plastic pressure barrels you don't really get a great amount of carbonation. When I was at that stage and wanted fizzy beer I just used old fashioned bottles with great success. My experience has been that to get fizzy kegged beer you have to move to something more substantial like a cornelius keg setup with a proper bottled supply of CO2 with a regulator. I'm at this stage now and still experimenting (see elsewhere on this group for advice on temps, pressures, line length etc from others who know much more than me!).

Probably not the answer you were looking for but in the mean time you could try chilling the barrel and adding more gas at regular intervals. I think the couple of squirts at a time method is best. I think that if you tried to leave to bottle connected and on without a regulator you'd be asking for trouble. Of course I'm assuming here that you are using something like a King Keg pressure barrel and one of the Hambleton Bard (soda stream sized) CO2 refillable bottles - this is the setup I used to use.

Hope this is of some use.

Keith

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