co2 Canister ok in the fridge?

[NickW]

Hi there,

I'm planning on storing my two cornys in the fridge.

Is it ok to keep the co2 canister in the fridge? The fridge will be around 5'c..

Nick

 

[Muddydisco]

you can but you'll loose alot of capacity as the gas will shrink and get denser so you will use it up alot faster.
I have looked at this and put a 9 psi keg into the fridge once down to temp there was enough gas to get one pint out!
It was a nice cold pint mind you :drink:

 

[Aleman]

There is no problem with keeping a co2 cylinder in the fridge. . . . You will loose some pressure in the gas space above the liquid CO2 . .. but you should still bet at something like 500psi (at 5C) rather than 800psi at 20C . . . . of course your primary reg will still work so setting the secondary to 5psi (at 5C) will give you about 1 Volume of CO2 in the beer . . . . and you will still use the same amount of gas its a PV=nRT (the Pervert or Ideal gas equation ) kind of thing

 

[NickW]

I was told 10-12psi at 5'c would be ideal for the lager ... are you saying 5psi aleman? :O

 

[Aleman]

for fizzy lager you need to double the figure of 5psi so 10-12 is correct