I just kegged a llight lager.  I started off force carbing it.  I ran the pressure on the low side of the regulator up to 30psi.  It was working great, I could hear the CO2 bubbling into the keg when I was shaking it.

Here's where the problem starts.  

I didn't have a whole lot of CO2 gas left in my tank.  I noticed as I was doing this the pressure on the high side dropping.  Anyway, I kept at it.  Then I noticed the pressure on the low side of the regulator dropping.  When I finally ran out of gas, I had between 5 and 6 psi, in the keg.  It's not possible for me to get any CO2 till this weekend.  Do you think it will hurt it to let it sit this way.  I really doesn't taste like it's carbed enough.  I'm out of beer, and was really hoping to drink some of it this week.

I do have a tank of gas at work I could use to finish carbing up this keg.  I wanted so see if anyone thinks this will work.  The tank has plenty of volume, and pressure, since we don't use it very often.  We use it to calibrate detection equipment.  

The tank is non-oderized natural gas.  It should dissolve into the beer just fine.  I know I won't be able to smoke cigars and drink this beer at the same time, but I'm really wanting to try out this beer.  

Comments??

Suggestions??

let it sit chilled until you get more gas. You'll be fine

I went ahead and hooked up the "company gas" to it.  I'm up to 11psi on the keg now.  Will taste it later.

I dont know a whole lot about kegging beer as im just getting into it myself.

But this seems like a bad idea

You all did see the date he posted this, right?

Let's hope that's all that this is.

I hope thats all it is.
If not, dibs on his guns and brew gear

Claimed. Sorry, their are new rules.

Tough crowd here.

It was a good one. You are supposed to say "Hahaha, April Fools. Got you Fuckers!!"

Otherwise you have things like that thread where one of the members said "Goodbye Arfcom" instead of "Goodnight" and they actually sent a few members over to make sure the dude didnt off himself.

It was like a 15 page thing. He came back on the next morning apologizing for making everyone worry.

With you we knew we had a bit of time before we heard about a NGB (natural gas beer) splosion.

Could you imagine posting basically the same thing in the Vape Den (tobacco vaporizer peoples)? "Yea, this new vapo3000 isnt working. Gonna hook up a propane tank to it to make it go. See ya in a bit"... and then no one hears from you for 3 days...

ETA: I did "Claim" all your stuff. It remains claimed. Fork it over.

Do you want the reloading stuff too?

ETA:  How about the new laundry sink I bought for the brewery?  It's not hooked up yet.

All of it is claimed dammit.




I think you really did have some people scratching their head wondering if you tried to carb with natural gas.

If I was really going to sub a gas, I would probably use something like the 75/25 weld gas we use at work.  I don't think the 25% argon would hurt you all that bad.

With natural gas, you'd have to be careful where you fart. Otherwise, you might end up looking like a Saturn 5 rocket taking off.

It would be hilarious (depending on injury level) to bystanders though

That will just make it easier to ship to me