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Well, racking it straight into bottles with a bottling wand crossed my mind it's just such a small barrel with a small opening that it sounded kind of difficult. But maybe that's the best solution...make a short little racking cane and siphon it out.

I have a 5L barrel I got from oakbarrelsltd.com. I was attempting to bottle a beer out of it and became rather concerned about oxidation. I started by hooking up a tube with a bottling wand on the end, but I was getting tons of air in the line. So I opted to pour directly from the spigot into...

I would be using a bucket with a spigot as my secondary/dry hop fermentor after racking off my primary. The inside of the spigot is almost an inch isn't it? I was thinking I'd just try screwing the plastic nut on over it or tying it on with fishing line or something if that didn't work. I was...

I'm dry hopping a Belgian IPA with an ounce of pellets, so I've been looking all over at dry hopping techniques. Here's my idea: In order to filter out any hops when kegging my beer, I'd like to simply fix a piece of muslin bag or paint strainer mesh taut over the inside opening of my spigot...

So I was using some White Labs yeast, which I've never done before. Gave it a decent shake to get it all off the bottom. Of course, when I opened it, it started to overflow. My initial response was not to waste any so I dumped it in. It then occurred to me that some of the yeast had dripped down...

Cool beans! Here's my travel kit, ha ha. Paintball CO2 cylinder, regulator with adapter, gas and beer lines, sanitizer and Solo cups in a brew bucket...which happens to be a perfectly-sized cooler for a 5 gallon keg.

I have a keg carbed at 12 PSI sitting in my keggerator. I plan on wrapping it in a towel and driving it about 2 hours. Upon arrival, it'll be put on ice over night and served the following day. It's a Belgian Wit so I'm not really worried about it looking hazy. That sound like a reasonable plan...

It's been two days and my CO2 cylinder still weighs 17.8 lbs.

Yeah I did the Starsan check...think I'm good to go, I just don't wanna burn another $13 on CO2 if I missed something. I AM carbonating so I weighed the keg as well...if the combined weight of the keg and CO2 drops, I've definitely still got a leak.

Well my rationale is that if I have everything hooked up and the weight of my tank drops over the next couple days, I still have a leak and I can try to fix it before wasting all of my CO2. Just making sure that's sound reasoning.

I drained my CO2 in like a week because of a leak. I think it may have just been that the lid wasn't sat correctly. My question is this...I weighed my new CO2 bottle at 17.8 pounds, will it remain there assuming I've fixed the leak?

I had a leak somewhere and drained all my CO2. I'm planning on replacing all the O-rings and then trying to find any leak that may remain. I have another keg with a different style lid and posts. I was thinking I might just put new rings on the other lid and posts and use them to make things a...

I kegged my beer 9 days ago. Went to check out it today and my pressure is at zero...appears that I'm out of CO2. I'm assuming I have a leak? Solutions? My beer is still fine, right? Just flat until I get some more CO2?

I've got my keg in the fridge between 11 and 12 PSI...about how long until it's ready to drink?

Ha ha, yeah I already put a rubber band around the tap just in case my roommate decides he's thirsty or something.

Thanks guys...so in the future should I not hook up the liquid out line until I'm ready to drink it or does it make any difference?

I kegged for the first time yesterday. I checked it today and there appears to be beer in my beverage line. Should I be concerned?

Yeah, I was going to slide a trash bag under and around them just in case. Anyway, I added 5 ounces of dextrose.

Soooooo....yes, I should be concerned?

Na...I added the entire sugar solution to the bottling bucket while it was siphoning out to help it mix in better...but not all the beer made it into the bottling bucket because I stopped it early.