How to force carbonate a homebrew stout / Nitrogen CO2 mix

Force carbonate a stout easy and fast , how to get that creamy lasting head on your homebrew pints

[peterarnold]

Well done mate that's Helps me out. Looking forward to more 🍻👍

[catsfanny]

First of all, great work Graham and cogratulations, you have a famtastic set up there. Glad to see a man doing the stout only homebrews.
I have an all grain stout here just finished fermentation. I will be kegging it and serving it through the nitro tap on 70/30 as I usually do and the results are always ok. However, I never cold crashed before, so I am going to give it a go this time to see if I get better results..
Your pints look great, great flow and looks beautifully finished in the glass. Thanks for knowledge and information. Very helpful.
I'll let you know how it turns out.

[itsniallgrant]

Nice one! Awesome pint, got me even more excited about doing my first stout and first Nitro beer. Good to see an Irishman doing it too 😉 in the coming weeks I'll brewing my own all grain Guinness clone in my Brewzilla and serving with my new nitrogen setup 😉

[alecnorthlewis]

Good morning Graham, firstly thanks for the video. I’m on my second stout with nitro and the first was pouring perfecting, but by luck rather than judgement. This time I carbonated it for quite a while (thinking that’s what I’d done the first time), unsurprisingly pouring foam when connected to beer mix.

I’ve spent the last 2/3 days decarbing by shaking and burping, so was glad to see that as your fix in one of the comments.

My question though relates to a difference from the video to a reply to the first comment. In the reply you said, connect beer mix to 36/37 psi, burb it to get rid of oxygen, then “disconnect” the gas, and roll for 2 mins. Whereas in the video, you leave the gas connected whilst rolling for the 2 mins. Could you confirm. Apologies if I missed something.

Secondly, because I’ve been decarbing, I’ve left it out of the fridge to warm up, assisting the decarbing. Am I better to cool it down again to aids the nitrogenation? Which leads me to ask about head space, there isn’t a lot in my kegs… how much of an issue is that?

Thanks so much in advance.
Alec

[WinSchutten]

I found a lot of info online, , but now how to get the gas inside my homebrew..

So it is a lot easier, , just under serving pressure put it onto it's side so the gas is more in contact with the beer..

I was worried I was going to need to get a carbination stone and set it aside for a week.. This is much easier..

[MichaelGallacher-jj]

Hi Graham, I’ve been experimenting with force carbonation my stouts, IPA’s and lagers. I’ve had issues with over carbonation before and wasted a lot of beer 😢
The quick way to carbonate is amazing. I find the set and forget method works best (leaving my lagers and IPAs in the fridge hooked up to the CO2 at the desired PSI/temp for 2 weeks)
Would the same work for this using 70/30 mix and if so would I leave the regulator set to 36psi?

[cerveceando]

Buenisimo, lo que estaba buscando! Saludos desde Argentina.

[NapoleonDynamites]

I'm trying an experiment atm, I made A stout, I put 80g of sugar (about half of what is recommended) into the second fermentation barrel. Gonna leave it for a couple of months then I'm adding E941 Food Grade Nitrogen when I put it into the keg! Hopefully this will produce a good Guinness like pint. I got the Food Grade Nitrogen for a tenner off of a friend so trying something different with it!

[clubroot]

Very nice. What would be the result if you used a float and drew stout from the top of the keg, without force carbonating as demonstrated?

[benbarham]

Hi Graham, thanks for this video. Been drinking some lovely coopers stouts, prefer them to Guinness now! Quick question, When adding the regulator to the mixed gas barrel do you add any teflon tape to the thread?

[timquain]

Great video. So do you just keep it in the keg and pour one when you want one? If yes, how long can it stay in the keg? If no, where do you store it? Does it ned to be kept at a certain temperature? Do you have to recarbonate before each beer? I've only ever used bottles and sugar but really want to do nitro stouts.

[tonybolger]

Brilliant Graham, only discovered your videos recently and really enjoying them, i mostly home brew stout and ales and mostly in bottles or 5 liter kegs, build a kegerator recently mainly use it for Guinness, want to start putting my home brew into it now so you videos are a brilliant help, you us a cooler do you think I should do anything different if using a fridge to cool the beer?

[Jordan-ywsw]

Hi Graham, if you carbed at 34/35 psi, do you set your regulator to a certain psi when pouring? When you are finished drinking for the day do you Disconnect your gas and keep your keg at a certain pressure?
I'm have just purchased a new corny keg

[Mrguydudeman]

Hello from USA! Do you have to force carbonate a regular Guinness keg? I have one set up at home with very similar gas mix (75/25 and I pour at 42 psi). When I pour I get mixed results, the cascade happens too quickly and the head always has a few bubbles. Your pints always look PERFECT

[lockys]

Graham how long would you normally leave it in the primary? Have you done a taste test comparison to see how much a secondary adds to it?

[BillBob-nc]

Hiya Graham,

Love the channel fella, especially the Guinness ones. Have a question for you Graham, I know your busy but if you have the time would love your comments or perhaps a short video.

Excuse the long message mate, I am just starting out with the All Grain Home Brewing and just about all setup, my question is about bottling Guinness clones or it possible or worth it as generally you would pour direct from the Keg.

I current have a CO2 setup, the regulator will take the Mix Gas so I just need to get an adapter for the regulator and a mixed gas bottle, I know you pour direct from the Keg with the Nitro/CO2 mix and its a pleasure watching this but is it possible to bottle from the Keg.

From my limited knowledge so far, the CO2 will carbonate the Guinness and the Nitro will give you the Cascaded Affect in the glass. Based on this Graham have you tried on bottling from keg since its already carbonated with the Nitro/CO2 mix.

Hope you have the time to reply fella, all the best John

[davidmyler]

Looks quality mate. Im going to force carbonate my coopers irish stout over the weekend with a 70/30 mix. What pressure do you use to force carbonate and then to serve it? Cheers mate

[mikebeswick]

How much headspace did you need in the keg. Also when you cooled the beer down does it need more gasing. Good video

[upsidedown]

Hi great channel you got, great tips thanks, quick question for you if you could help me out, the line from the beer out post to Guinness tap how important is the length? When I use CO2 for regular beer I need over a better long to reduce foaming, I've got 75/25 Guinness gas ready to set up, just curious about beer line length, I've read 30/35 psi is a good serving pressure. Cheers

[hollywood]

Could you use that keg and pour nitro cans into it and use the cooler and taps and gas kegs are very expensive and if you haven't a few people round its hard to get through a full keg