What to do when you've over carbonated the beer in your Keg?

[JammyBStard]

Been My usual impatient self I force carbonated my beer so I could drink it now!! But I've gone way too far by the look of it.
How do you get it back down again?
So far I've disconnected the gas and have been letting the head space pressure out of the keg every night. I assume as the pressure keeps building up again the CO2 is boiling out of the brew.

Is this the right way to go about it? Or could it ruin the beer?

[gnutz2]

What type of keg do you have? I ask because most plastic kegs have the S30 valve which will regulate its own pressure to around 10-12psi which is about the right pressure, this makes it quite hard to over carb the beer.

Anyway to make the beer less fizzy just unscrew the cap to burp the co2, or pull back the rubber band and let the co2 escape through the small hole.

If you have a cornie keg forget what i said and pull the ring on the pressure relief valve

[JammyBStard]

Corny, I chilled it to near zero, put 30 psi on it and agitated for ten min. I didn't realise I'd had the fridge set so low

[Fil]

set it at the target temp for serving, and vent all the gas in the keg a few hours later it should have released some co2 try it to taste if still too fizzy vent all the gas again and let it settle out again before testing.. it can be done quicker at higher temps but you run the risk of overshooting, best to do it slowly at serving temps.