Do NOT Try This At Home!

**Sluggo** · 05-18-2008, 07:44 PM

So today I decided my keg of stout had sat long enough and it was now time to put it on tap. At the same time I decided I should probably clean out my beer line on the kegerator.

Off I go and mix up some beer line cleaner, take the faucet and keg connector off and start pumping cleaner through line into a bucket. Then I take the faucet and connectors apart and clean them up all nice and shiny. By now I'm salivating over the thought of a nice cold stout to go with my ribs I'm smoking today.

I wiped everything off and flushed the lines with water. Then I put the keg connector back on the line. Next I hooked up the mixed gas, popped the beer line on the keg and here's where things went bad. Notice I neglected to put one thing back on that I had taken off...arguably the most important thing...the faucet.

I can now attest that beer will shoot about 15 feet out of the shank across the room and onto the middle of the tan carpet making a nice little dark brown puddle. I now wish I didn't have my regulator set at 30 psi. This isn't the worst of it though. After staring in wonderment at the stream of beer flying across the room it dawned on me that I needed to do something to stop the loss of beer...the carpet isn't important at this point.

What brilliant thing do I do next? I put my hand in front of the stream pretending that I'm the little Dutch kid with his finger in the dike. This made a glorious 6 foot diameter fountain of beer shoot backwards against the wall and bookcase. White walls. That are now stained with hundreds of brown spots that won't seem to come out no matter how much I scrub. And the room smells glorious.

As a kid I always took pride in being able to take things apart and put them back together with some spare parts left over. Now I don't.

homebrewer_99 · 05-18-2008, 07:47 PM

So...when's the "Carpet Sucking and Wall Licking" party???

Sorry to hear about your loss. Remove the out line QD next time...

**Sluggo** · 05-18-2008, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by homebrewer_99

So...when's the "Carpet Sucking and Wall Licking" party???

Sorry to hear about your loss. Remove the out line QD next time...

That was my ultimate solution. I just neglected to mention it. I probably only lost a couple pints, but it looks like someone went on a hell of a bender in my living room.

huckdog · 05-18-2008, 09:05 PM

This is my first post and I had to let you know that the image of this happening is quite funny.

I am in the process of piecing together my keezer and am sure that I will have a similar incident to share soon.

Thanks for the laugh.

**david_42** · 05-18-2008, 11:04 PM

Haven't done that one yet. I have done the connect a party tap with the valve locked open trick. And once as a kid I tried to catch a gallon of iced tea when the bottom popped out of the pitcher.

Fingers · 05-18-2008, 11:29 PM

Sorry for your troubles, but that was pretty funny. I'm sure it's not so funny when you're cleaning up. I'll take your experience as a personal warning.

karbinator · 05-19-2008, 01:25 AM

Your words sure drew a mental picture as I read.
Thanks for the laugh. Live and learn I guess.
Swmbo would have my stones for something like that.

Laser21 · 05-19-2008, 01:41 AM

OUCH! Sorry to hear about your lose of beer.

Any pics?

**Wade E** · 05-19-2008, 01:58 AM

Try 1 of those magic erasers on the walls as they do work very good.

tbulger · 05-19-2008, 02:58 AM

I was brewing today and did something similar. I was recirculating near boiling water through my pump and whirlpool return, i needed to unhook the wirlpool attachment but forgot about the really hot water running through it burned my thumb it hurts pretty bad but lesson learned.