I built a keezer. Fresh keg of Kona Longboard put in it. CO2 tank set initially at 10 psi. CO2 stored in the keezer. 10 feet of beer line. Temp around 37 degrees. SS shanks and Perlick 630 SS faucet. Set the keg and waited 18 hours... getting a foamy pour. It settles withing a few minutes. Seemed like a lot of pressure on the pour... lowered the CO2 to about 8 psi. Very little change in the pour. Looking at the beer line, no foam in it. Any suggestions?
Air temp means nothing. You need beer temp, and only beer temp. At 43 it will be very hard to balance. You need to adjust the thermostat and try to get colder. BTW arbitrarily dropping the pressure has actually hurt you here. Higher temps call for higher pressures.
42 to 43 is not good. Hopefully you have room to adjust it to a colder temp. You might need several days to change the BEER temp to 37/38 degrees. 10 psi is also a little low and is getting to the under-carbing beer point; not 100% sure what your beer calls for, but most likely 38 degrees/12 psi would be a starting point. I'd set the regulator to 12 psi now, adjust the temp a good bit, and wait a few days. You wont hurt anything checking beer temp every 24 hours; it just may not be done cooling for several days. Wait until temp stays consistent for atleast 2 days in a row. Then adjust accordingly to get it settled at 37/38. Got to get the temp right before attempting pressure adjustments. Non-chilled glass is what to use. Not sure how a keezer set-up affects 1st beer/2nd beer results since I'm not sure if any kind of tower is involved; wouldn't think so. But I'd still use 2nd pour for temp just in case glass itself is on the warm side. 10' of beer line is good. Air temp is useless unless you are trying to troubleshoot your compressor by checking cycling patterns. I have a high/low temp unit for that, but your no where needing to do that at this point. The air temp, when working right, could be something like 34-42 degrees to keep beer at 38. For now, know 1000% what your beer temp is and get it right before doing anything else.
