I have seen multiple mentions of serving a carbonated beer on beer gas / "nitro" mix, but I have not seen much on the opposite issue. What will happen if I serve a keg of Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout on my regular faucet and regular CO2 tank? Will it be flat and lifeless? If it will be anything like Old Rasputin in a bottle, then I will happy. Personally, I am not a fan of "smoothing" out the bite and bitterness of a stout by adding the nitro. For example, I much prefer The Abyss on CO2 rather than nitro.
You'll keep more of the flavor of the actual beer and it will be less like a milkshake in texture. It will still be delicious.
you might be confusing beer gas with a stout faucet. they usually go together, but not by necessity. you can serve any beer with beer gas, but you better know how to balance your system forward and backward. and in virtually every instance, anyone with a home dispense system only needs 100% CO2. unless they are also using a stout faucet. you may choose to not use a nitro faucet with a nitro beer, but again you need to know how to balance the system appropriately. even still, you will not have a beer that the brewery wanted. you will need to reduce the applied pressure substantially to maintain the very low vols of CO2, and you will need need to design less resistance in the system. or you can alter the beers CO2 content, and see if you can get things to work. to be honest, not many are familiar enough with draft system design to get it right. even the experienced hands would be mostly winging it, changing the packaged keg beer and hope for the best. it helps to remember that nitrogen is inert. it has no flavor or aroma. nitrogen is not soluble in liquid. CO2 is fairly the opposite of N when applied to beer. Cheers.
I was wondering the same thing. My beer gas is almost out, and I would like to try CO2 instead of beer gas. I have a nitro keg of Belhaven on right now and I want to take out the diffuser from the nitro spout, turn down the pressure to 12 psi, and hook up straight CO2. Has anyone tried this? I have a leak or something. I'm only getting 3 kegs out of a 20 lb blended gas cylinder. Either that or my CO2 store doesn't know how to fill tanks properly. How much should a 20 lb beer gas tank read (in lbs) when full?
Spray all your connections down with a soapy water blend...bubbles means leaks. Cheap, quick and effective.
It should weigh 20 lbs plus the tare weight of the tank (which you will find stamped near the neck) You definitely have a gas leak
