I have had some great success brewing beers and legging them in a corny keg. Never a problem. However, when I travel or even take the keg up stairs it is either too flat and come out too fast or over carbonated and comes out fast. I have vented the keg which controls the dispense speed but can never get carbonation and dispensing right for the road. Home fine. Road disaster. I am always in a constant state of having to fuss with it. I can't just take a keg to a party, ice it and only tend to it to get my own drink. Any advice is helpful . Thanks
There was a recent BYO article, either on making cask beers or making a widget to do cask beer in a corny that talks about how moving a keg effects clarity and CO2 levels. Worth the read as it addresses your issues.
if the temperature changes, even just a few degrees, it will make everything go out of balance. if your two regulators are not putting identical pressure it will make your keg go out of balance you can shake a keg a fair amount and it will quickly recover. give a few minutes. remember, the dip tube is at the bottom, and you just need to let the gas get reabsorbed. if your line length and diameter changes at each place of dispense, then its going to put your keg out of balance. temperature and applied pressure are going to be the two areas to review. Cheers.
Best luck I've had is this: Unhook keg from CO2, but don't bleed. Transport keg. Bleed CO2 from keg. Hook CO2 back up at a pretty low pressure (around 5 psi) and adjust as necessary based on new temp for serving. The longer you let the keg settle, and the colder you do so (try to keep the beer line cold too, if you can), the better your first pours should be. Basically, don't try to just adjust the CO2; bleed the keg after transport and lower CO2, then adjust. YMMV Whenever we serve beer at a party or show, we do our best to take the beer over a few hours before and let the kegs sit on ice in totes. Any gunk that got kicked up during transit has settled back down and comes out within the first 1/2 cup pour. I know that wasn't mentioned, but it is a concern we have run into in the past (beer not being clear after moving the keg).
