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Any brewnosers use beer gas (75% nitro/25% co2) or full nitro at home?

I would like to do a stout this way in my keezer!

I've done it and didn't notice any real differences except maybe weaker carbonation...nitro better for pushing it and thus diluting the process of forced carbing maybe? I'm no gas expert - well maybe at expelling it

elreplica wrote:I've done it and didn't notice any real differences except maybe weaker carbonation...nitro better for pushing it and thus diluting the process of forced carbing maybe? I'm no gas expert - well maybe at expelling it

Did you use a stout faucet as well? The main "nitro" effect is from pushing your beer through a stout faucet with a restrictor plate at high pressure - but that high pressure means you need beer gas to avoid overcarbing the beer.

I would love to do this setup myself, but having your own mixer and a separate nitro tank seems to make way more sense than buying "beer gas" - and mixers aren't cheap since no one is currently marketing one to homebrewers at all.

No, I didn't use a faucet and meant to recommend that to the poster.

I bought the intertap stout faucet adapter (with the restrictor plate). And just turned up my co2 during my pours and it seemed to have the effect I was going for! (made a bit of a mess the first time, psi was too high and beer leaked past an oring in the faucet and got beer everywhere, haha)