| Keeping your keg at the proper temperature is a | | | | when it is very cold. You don't want the beer to |
| must. If it is at the wrong temperature or if it | | | | freeze, but you want it to get as cold as possible |
| fluctuates too much it will have an adverse effect on | | | | before you serve it to anyone. Keep in mind that it is |
| the beer. Just about any type of beer will be | | | | better for the beer to be a little to cold than not |
| negatively affected by too many temperature | | | | quite cold enough. |
| changes, but this is particularly true of the darker | | | | Some people think that it isn't as important to |
| brews. | | | | maintain a very cold temperature for beer that has |
| Generally 38 degrees Fahrenheit is what people aim | | | | been pasteurized, but this is not true. To protect the |
| to keep their beer at. Kegerators should be built to | | | | flavor and reduce foam, any beer should be chilled |
| bring your beer down to this temperature and keep | | | | just right. |
| it there. If you build your own kegerator, make sure | | | | In order to keep your beer at the right temperature, |
| it can get to this temperature and stay there before | | | | get a proper kegerator for it. This is the best way to |
| you put anything into it. | | | | make sure that there won't be very many changes in |
| If you are force carbonating beer, it is very | | | | the beer. A kegerator shouldn't be opened very |
| important to keep the beer in a cooler. This is | | | | often, and this constant atmosphere is the best type |
| because the lower temperature makes it easier for | | | | for the beer to be in. |
| the liquid to absorb the gas. This makes it lees likely | | | | Also, you should get a thermometer for your |
| for you to lose beer to foaming. Foam can take out | | | | kegerator. This makes it easier to make sure that |
| up to 25% of your keg, so you want to avoid this if | | | | the fridge is staying at the temperature that you |
| at all possible. Low temperatures while carbonating is | | | | need. Some of these thermometers sit inside the |
| key here. | | | | kegerator, so they can only be checked on the |
| Also, as the temperature goes up, more CO2 is | | | | occasions when you open the door. Others have the |
| expelled from the beer, creating foam. If you buy a | | | | temperature reader inside the fridge and the result |
| keg of beer that is room temperature, you need to | | | | displayed outside so you can check it anytime. |
| refrigerate it overnight at the minimum. If you tap it | | | | When you are buying a keg of beer, make sure that |
| too soon, the foam will be excessive. | | | | it has been chilled at least overnight. Once you pick it |
| So it is true that the colder the beer is when it is | | | | up take it straight home, and have a cold kegerator |
| served, the better, and there are different reasons | | | | waiting for it. Temperature control is the absolute |
| for this. Many people also think that beer tastes best | | | | best way to keep your beer just the way you like it. |
