C02 Explained: How to Carbonate Beer 🍺

In this video I teach you why C02 is so important in beer and how you can carbonate beer like a professional brewery.
I really enjoyed making this video because it jogged my memory of when I started to grasp this concept. I hope this helps you get a better grasp on the most important gas in beer!
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Tanglefoot Brewing is a small Czech lager focused brewery in Temple, TX. In 2021 the brewery opened in the back of my family's BBQ restaurant that had been operating for 53 years. The restaurant has since closed and Tanglefoot has now taken over the entire space. This UA-cam channel was started to document the process of opening, running and growing a small craft brewery.

[@glee2004]

Great timing, I have a 5 bbl brewery on my family farm in north Idaho and I’ve been a pro brewer for about a month now and I’d say carbonation is the last part that I’m flying blind on. You’re videos have been helpful and encouraging to me as a fellow brewer that has to piece together things and figure a lot of stuff out for myself.

[@tanglefootbrewing]

That's so awesome to hear. Glad to be of service. Good luck on the brewery 🍻

[@chrisblake6]

Excellent video for a detail often overlooked. Keep them coming.

[@tanglefootbrewing]

Thank you! 🍻

[@jkrich]

Well explained, thanks bro!

[@tanglefootbrewing]

Thank you! 🍻

[@ajdj5139]

As a Czech I really love your sign where you listed all your beers and named it "Pívo". It can be considered a slang for beer (Pivo) in Central Bohemian Region and Prague.
Same thing goes for pivovar (brewery) - pivovár.
Also the degrees of extract are cool since the majority of our breweries label their beers by it's gravity which no other country with beer culture does.
I respect how you keep the tradition of Czech beers.

[@tanglefootbrewing]

Thank you! Glad to spread the message of Czech lager 🍻🤘

[@markjenkins4383]

Man I love your videos!!!!! So informative and easy to follow!!!! Keep up the good work.

[@tanglefootbrewing]

Thank you! That means a lot 🍻

[@JohnFrytag]

Another great video 👍

[@tanglefootbrewing]

Thank you 🍻

[@soundpark_]

Thanks! 🙏

[@tanglefootbrewing]

No problemo! 🍻

[@troyleach5471]

thanks for this... I am a small homebrewer - 1 gallon batches right now until I make the "perfect" beer - I struggle with CO2 and my little kegs :-)

[@tanglefootbrewing]

No problem! Gotta start somewhere. Keep on brewin' 🍻

[@africantwin173]

I'm still using sugar to carbonate beer on the bottles. Between 5 a 6 grams per Liter.
But i'm in the market of getting a tiny 14 gallon Unitank from Czech republic 2024 Q2.
Does the Time matters when carbonating beer under pressure.
I mean if you say carb for 7 days, and i carb it for 9 days.
Does that changes the co2 volume levels in any way.
How do you clean the carb stone. Boiling in hot water or using chemicals.

[@tanglefootbrewing]

1) Time absolutely matters as far as surface area is concerned, but if you are just passively force carbing(the keg example and not using a carb stone) the beer will equillibrate to the volumes on the chart given the pressure and temp is constant so leaving it more time will should not change the result.
2) carb stone is cleaned with chemicals and can also be boiled. Specifically, if the efficacy of the stone seems to dip(beer not carbing as quickly) usually it is beer stone that is impeding the flow and I will boil with an acid solution.
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[@insaneshadow1]

do you lager prior to carbing, or do you carb and lager in the britetank?

[@tanglefootbrewing]

Both is the short answer.
I usually carb and keg and let the beer finish lagering in kegs due to my system constraints