Keg serving pressure?

[Crypto Sailor]

Beer Drinkers/Brewers I'm wondering if anyone can provide me with the correct serving pressure for commercial draft beer dispensed from a kegerator?

R/
Brian

 

[mthhurley]

Around 10psi or slightly under for ales and such. If you're talking stouts or anything odd (Belgians...etc) it will vary.

 

[mthhurley]

Lmao!

 

[Mmalone999]

I prefer it cold. Does that help?

 

[carguy13]

i don't know anything about this issue, but i feel like i should be involved.

 

[Crypto Sailor]

Mike it's a keg of SA octoberfest I'll set it at 10psi and try another mug

 

[veeref]

Yeah, I'd try 10 psi. I've done higher to force carbonate certain pilseners, but I've always dropped them to around 10psi for serving. Higher and I tend to get too much foam.

 

[Crypto Sailor]

Yeah, I'd try 10 psi. I've done higher to force carbonate certain pilseners, but I've always dropped them to around 10psi for serving. Higher and I tend to get too much foam.

Randy,

The reason I'm asking if my beer taste flat, it will form a head just fine. Just taste like it's missing all and any type of flavor.

 

[mthhurley]

Brian,

Interesting...I too have a 5 gallon keg of SA Octoberfest..It's set at 10 psi along with my others kegs in there and produces a perfect head.

What's interesting is that this keg has turned to shit. Because I homebrew, I'm a fanatic about sanitation, so I clean and sanitize everything on a keg change. The first week I put the Sam on, it was fine, then it started developing a strange taste, my wife noticed it first. At this point, probably 3 weeks old, it's undrinkable. It went completely stale.
In fact, we had a dinner party last weekend and my wife bought 24 bottles of SA October from Costco. I poured a glass from a bottle and one from the tap and tasted side by side and blech...The tap was horrid. Bottle was spot-on.

Things that make you go hmmmm.

 

[Crypto Sailor]

Brian,

Interesting...I too have a 5 gallon keg of SA Octoberfest..It's set at 10 psi along with my others kegs in there and produces a perfect head.

What's interesting is that this keg has turned to shit. Because I homebrew, I'm a fanatic about sanitation, so I clean and sanitize everything on a keg change. The first week I put the Sam on, it was fine, then it started developing a strange taste, my wife noticed it first. At this point, probably 3 weeks old, it's undrinkable. It went completely stale.
In fact, we had a dinner party last weekend and my wife bought 24 bottles of SA October from Costco. I poured a glass from a bottle and one from the tap and tasted side by side and blech...The tap was horrid. Bottle was spot-on.

Things that make you go hmmmm.

Mike just got off the phone with the place I bought mine from and they told me to return it and pick anything else I like.