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  • Carbonation for draft Belgians

    Hey Guys,

    Looking for advice on carbonating our belgian style ales for consumption in our taproom only. These beers are not sold to off-premise accounts and therefore we can train/inform our staff on how to serve them correctly.

    We have a short draw system, around 5 feet to our faucets and our cooler stays around 36-38 degrees F.
    We are curious if anyone has experience with how many volumes we could get away with carbonating our Belgians to.

    Thanks in advance.
    Ben Davis
    Intuition Ale Works
    Jacksonville Florida
    www.intuitionaleworks.com

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    Carbonation for Belgian Beers

    Sounds like you have short lines and that is one great advantage you have over others who have longer lines, which sometimes turns into foaming issues with higher carbonation styles. We regularly carbonate our rotating Belgian styles from Saisons to Biere de Gardes to Dubbels at about 3.5- 4.0 vols for draft only service and we have 85 ft long lines and no problems, but we are using a co2/nitrogen blender for service. Carb your beers true to Belgian styles and play with the levels for your system. I am guessing that with such a short draw you won't have much of a problem. Always start with serving pressure low and then adjust up from there to reduce foaming and get your correct pressure for each beer.


    Michael Uhrich
    Carter's Craft Brewery
    Billings, MT

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