CO2 vols in a keg vs bottle

I just brewed an English Mild. While researching the recipe, I came across this....

Mild needs just enough carbonation to impart a bit of mouthfeel and to drive the aroma out of the glass and up to your nose. Too much carbonation and the beer becomes dry, harsh and acidic. Gentle carbonation can make the beer feel creamy. Target a carbonation level of 2 volumes for bottled, 1.5 volumes for kegged and just over 1 volume of CO2 for cask conditioned beer.

If all vessels were carbonated the the same CO2 level, would there be a difference between the percieved carbonation level when the beer comes out of a Keg vs Bottle vs cash?

trout

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Hi shib,

Ive got an idea about what a real cask conditioned ale( is(though I've never had a real one.) I guess my question is why suggest one CO2 level for bottles, a second level for Kegs, and yet a third for cask conditioned? Am I missing somting or misunderstanding the sentence entirely

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I don't know where that reference is from trout, but it does seem wrong IF they are saying;
The carbonated beer "in your glass" should be different based on how/where it was conditioned. I would have thought the beer in your glass should be at the same level regardless of how it was produced.

Or..

Do they mean by "target" that they expect some carbonation differences between the different formats and that the beer in your glass will end up the same?
Again, this seems odd, as they are then presuming your setup will be the same as theirs?

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Great question trout ,

I suspect it might end up in the misinformation thread . All of us in this thread know about the discrepancies between bottle proning and keg priming from this thread. I'm thinking the same as mally. I reckon the guy has confused the carbonation goal with the sugar weight he has read in a calculator.

What's the source of your info trout? Who wrote that advice?

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The Quote is from Brew Your Own Magazine Style Profile Column by Jamill Zainasheff

In the all grain recipe it says

Target a carbonation level of 1 to 2 volumes depending on your packaging.

Busy day in the shop, Ill do more research later

trout out

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2trout wrote:The Quote is from Brew Your Own Magazine Style Profile Column by Jamill Zainasheff

In the all grain recipe it says

Target a carbonation level of 1 to 2 volumes depending on your packaging.

Yep, well to me (and to a lot of you) that is wrong.

Jamil and John are very approachable and will reply to your questions so my suggestion is to write to one of them and say, "Hey, what's the go here?" Tell them PP thinks there was an error and said to write. (They will have no idea who PP is even though we have corresponded under a different name ).

Once you get that one sorted, there is another big one to sort out.

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Was thinking about you the other day shib wondering what you were up to and here you are .

English cask beer is lightly carbonated and can be served in two ways. Either 'on the counter' in which case you really want to drink it in a few days as air is sucked in every time you pour a beer. The other way is that it is pumped under very low pressure through the beer engine. (From memory, the beer engine still needs gas pushing the beer to it but only enough to overcome gravity. Been twenty years since I mucked around with either of the above .)

But, this still doesn't resolve trout's original question

If all vessels were carbonated the the same CO2 level, would there be a difference between the perceived carbonation level when the beer comes out of a Keg vs Bottle vs cask?

The immediate answer is, "Yes". The unresolved answer is still...

"Why wouldn't you want the same perceived carbonation in all three packages?"

Still got me buggered .

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