Pressure barrel, lots of pressure but no fizz.

[Aethelstan]

Hi, I have a pressure barrel full of honey beer and I used one of the little c02 bulbs to gas it. There is plenty of pressure and a massive head on the poured ale, but the beer itself is really flat. Should the c02 bulb not have added even a little bit of fizz to the ale?

[DeadFall]

It takes a while for the beer to soak up the co2 and get fizzy. until then the pressure will just push the flat beer out.

[WalesAles]

It takes a while for the beer to soak up the co2 and get fizzy. until then the pressure will just push the flat beer out.

Deadfall,
How long for the beer to soak up the CO2?
WA

[DeadFall]

It takes a while for the beer to soak up the co2 and get fizzy. until then the pressure will just push the flat beer out.

Deadfall,
How long for the beer to soak up the CO2?
WA

No idea. I usually only use co2 to get the last few pints out of a keg. But if I'd had a leak I've noticed that the beer is flat after I've fixed the leak and squirted some in. I usually give it a few 1 sec blasts over a few hours and a day or so later have fizzy beer. The corny/crusader keg guys probably could answer this better.

[bob3000]

you need to prime with about 80g of table sugar. Temp is also important. If it's too warm it can struggle to hold on to carbonation. It wants to be around cellar temp 12 - 14 c

[mozza]

If you're force carbing in future I would fit a tyre valve to the lid that way you can be exact with the amount of co2 you're adding

[Deebee]

Absorbtion of co2 is a bit temperature dependant.

If you have the beer cold and have it under gas the absorbtion rate will be much higher.

Have a look here www.brewersfriend.com/keg-carbonation-calculator/

hth