Evan!
Well-Known Member
I think that I have finally figured out why I always seem to have a keg that's foamy while the rest are fine: it's gotta be a problem with this keg! I took two batches, kegged them on the same day, carbed them the same. One's perfectly carbed and doesn't foam; the other one is pretty much all foam. When I open the tap up, it sounds like something inside the keg is gurgling or something...doesn't sound normal...then it kerplunk! spits out this big fat load o' foam and then more beer/foam follows. And after I pull the pint o' foam, all these bubbles go rising up the liquid line to the high point where it goes into the keg.
After a few hours of this, there's actually air/co2 in a good portion of the line:
Now, I know it's not the tap, because I've switched it out with taps that have worked fine on other beers. So that leaves the keg. What in the hell could be causing this? Do you think one of my posts or diptubes is screwed up? Or maybe I have a leak and that's why there's that air space allowed in the liquid line? Umph, I'm stumped here, boys and girls. Little help?
After a few hours of this, there's actually air/co2 in a good portion of the line:
Now, I know it's not the tap, because I've switched it out with taps that have worked fine on other beers. So that leaves the keg. What in the hell could be causing this? Do you think one of my posts or diptubes is screwed up? Or maybe I have a leak and that's why there's that air space allowed in the liquid line? Umph, I'm stumped here, boys and girls. Little help?