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thisissteve
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Beergas

Post by thisissteve » Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:36 pm

Any brewnosers use beer gas (75% nitro/25% co2) or full nitro at home?

I would like to do a stout this way in my keezer!

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Post by elreplica » Sat Oct 15, 2016 10:10 am

I've done it and didn't notice any real differences except maybe weaker carbonation...nitro better for pushing it and thus diluting the process of forced carbing maybe? I'm no gas expert - well maybe at expelling it :-)
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Post by MitchK » Tue Oct 18, 2016 10:50 am

elreplica wrote:I've done it and didn't notice any real differences except maybe weaker carbonation...nitro better for pushing it and thus diluting the process of forced carbing maybe? I'm no gas expert - well maybe at expelling it :-)
Did you use a stout faucet as well? The main "nitro" effect is from pushing your beer through a stout faucet with a restrictor plate at high pressure - but that high pressure means you need beer gas to avoid overcarbing the beer.

I would love to do this setup myself, but having your own mixer and a separate nitro tank seems to make way more sense than buying "beer gas" - and mixers aren't cheap since no one is currently marketing one to homebrewers at all.

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Re: Beergas

Post by elreplica » Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:23 am

No, I didn't use a faucet and meant to recommend that to the poster.
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Re: Beergas

Post by thisissteve » Mon Oct 24, 2016 12:17 pm

I bought the intertap stout faucet adapter (with the restrictor plate). And just turned up my co2 during my pours and it seemed to have the effect I was going for! :rockin: (made a bit of a mess the first time, psi was too high and beer leaked past an oring in the faucet and got beer everywhere, haha)

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