I kegged beer for the first time yesterday - five gallons of ale in a corny keg. The beer was about 65 degrees. After getting the beer in the keg I set it outside for a few hours to cool. The temp outside was about 20 degrees. Then I put it in my fridge (about 34 degrees) where it sat over night - about 13 hours now. I have an infrared thermometer that seems to be pretty reliable. It shows the temp of the wall of the fridge at 34 (confirmed by another thermometer in there) and the freezer wall at 0. It is showing me that the keg is at about 60 degrees. Also, the CO2 tank, which has been in the fridge with the keg, is 60. Both the keg and CO2 tank feel cold to me. I don't know what to think of that. Does an infrared thermometer freak out measuring aluminum? There is no way the keg is that warm. Just for grins I used the same thermometer to measure the temp of an aluminum can of beer in my other fridge that has been at 34 degrees all weekend and it said it was 50. It read the bottle next to it at 40. I'm supposed to know the temp of the beer in the keg so I can determine the pressure of the CO2 applied to the beer. How am I supposed to get the temp of the beer? Do I have to draw a sample and measure that? There must be a better way....