nostalgia
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It's never that easy, is it? For those who thing it's only them who have rough days at the brew house...
I have two beers I wanted to rack to kegs tonight. In order to do that I first had to rebuild my kegs from Midwest, which they had forgotten to rebuild.
Keg #1 was no trouble. Only managed to cut myself on the steel once.
On keg #2 the Liquid OUT post was difficult to unscrew. When I got it off there were metal filings under the post - it had been cross threaded at some point. No big deal, I thought, it still held pressure, right?
I got all the kegs back together and pressurized. Keg #3 leaked through the gas in poppet. There is a nick in the metal that's preventing it from sealing. No problem, that could have been my fault, as they were shipped pressurized.
Here's the real problem: the Liquid OUT post on keg #2 does not allow the black quick connect to snap onto it. I tried every black and grey quick connect I have (thinking I might have mixed the posts up) and none of them fit.
So I thought I'd just use the Liquid OUT post from keg #3, but that one doesn't fit on keg #2.
So now I have two out of three kegs that I can't use. I definitely need at least one Gas IN and Liquid OUT post and poppet, but I don't know if the threads on keg #2 are clean enough to take the new post properly.
I gave up on kegs #2 and 3 and went to rack my Apricot wheat into working keg #1. I used the closed transfer method I had used for my last beer. Autosiphon in the carboy connected to the Liquid OUT post, with a quick connect on the Gas IN post to vent. I remembered at the last second to put in the apricot flavoring
All went fine for the first 1/3 of the beer. Then a chunk of trub got sucked up and the siphon stopped. I pumped the autosiphon a few times and it was not going anywhere - I could force some beer in but no siphon and there's a lot of backpressure.
So now I have to break the thing down, sanitize a long hose, pull the lid off the keg and siphon directly in. Thankfully, the rest of it went uneventfully. Hit the beer with 15psi, purged the headspace, hung a tag on it and put it away.
My stout sits in the fermenter until I hear back from Midwest about the rest of the kegs. Which probably isn't a bad thing for it
-Joe
I have two beers I wanted to rack to kegs tonight. In order to do that I first had to rebuild my kegs from Midwest, which they had forgotten to rebuild.
Keg #1 was no trouble. Only managed to cut myself on the steel once.
On keg #2 the Liquid OUT post was difficult to unscrew. When I got it off there were metal filings under the post - it had been cross threaded at some point. No big deal, I thought, it still held pressure, right?
I got all the kegs back together and pressurized. Keg #3 leaked through the gas in poppet. There is a nick in the metal that's preventing it from sealing. No problem, that could have been my fault, as they were shipped pressurized.
Here's the real problem: the Liquid OUT post on keg #2 does not allow the black quick connect to snap onto it. I tried every black and grey quick connect I have (thinking I might have mixed the posts up) and none of them fit.
So I thought I'd just use the Liquid OUT post from keg #3, but that one doesn't fit on keg #2.
So now I have two out of three kegs that I can't use. I definitely need at least one Gas IN and Liquid OUT post and poppet, but I don't know if the threads on keg #2 are clean enough to take the new post properly.
I gave up on kegs #2 and 3 and went to rack my Apricot wheat into working keg #1. I used the closed transfer method I had used for my last beer. Autosiphon in the carboy connected to the Liquid OUT post, with a quick connect on the Gas IN post to vent. I remembered at the last second to put in the apricot flavoring
All went fine for the first 1/3 of the beer. Then a chunk of trub got sucked up and the siphon stopped. I pumped the autosiphon a few times and it was not going anywhere - I could force some beer in but no siphon and there's a lot of backpressure.
So now I have to break the thing down, sanitize a long hose, pull the lid off the keg and siphon directly in. Thankfully, the rest of it went uneventfully. Hit the beer with 15psi, purged the headspace, hung a tag on it and put it away.
My stout sits in the fermenter until I hear back from Midwest about the rest of the kegs. Which probably isn't a bad thing for it
-Joe
