I've searched and searched through countless threads for my answer and some have danced around what I am looking for, but nothing completely addressed my question, so I apologize if I overlooked a thread where this is brought up.
I'm running a small brewpub with two 15BBL unitanks and one 7BBL unitank. We used to have brite tanks, but for various reasons those were sold off in favor of a second 15BBL unitank. A small yet decent percentage of our kegs are stuck or broken in some capacity (which is a whole other issue I am attempting to resolve currently), so our bottleneck at the moment is kegging off beer with the usable kegs we have in rotation. The owner of the brewery will sometimes get pressure from our accounts, which happen to be other restaurants in our restaurant group, for kegs as they run out. I have always been told that you want to keg off the whole batch at once to reduce the chance of overcarbonating the beer left over in the tank.
My question to you all is this: if I was to keg out a few kegs, let's say 4-6 kegs off of 15BBLs, and I left it for a few days, would it get overcarbonated? If it won't get overcarbonated (or probably won't), where is the threshold?
Thanks in advance. This forum has been super helpful in the past and I'm sure it will be in the future.
Shaver
Head Brewer
Hillcrest Brewing Company
San Diego, CA
I'm running a small brewpub with two 15BBL unitanks and one 7BBL unitank. We used to have brite tanks, but for various reasons those were sold off in favor of a second 15BBL unitank. A small yet decent percentage of our kegs are stuck or broken in some capacity (which is a whole other issue I am attempting to resolve currently), so our bottleneck at the moment is kegging off beer with the usable kegs we have in rotation. The owner of the brewery will sometimes get pressure from our accounts, which happen to be other restaurants in our restaurant group, for kegs as they run out. I have always been told that you want to keg off the whole batch at once to reduce the chance of overcarbonating the beer left over in the tank.
My question to you all is this: if I was to keg out a few kegs, let's say 4-6 kegs off of 15BBLs, and I left it for a few days, would it get overcarbonated? If it won't get overcarbonated (or probably won't), where is the threshold?
Thanks in advance. This forum has been super helpful in the past and I'm sure it will be in the future.
Shaver
Head Brewer
Hillcrest Brewing Company
San Diego, CA
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