Moving kegs = cloudy beer

I am sure it has been covered, but my searches did not bring much up.
I like clear beer and every time I bring a keg up to my porch to share with friends the beer gets stirred up and it is all cloudy. How do people avoid this? Filtering?

I normally use a secondary/gelatin so the beer going into the keg is pretty darn clear. All of the kegs have a small amount of sediment in the bottom when they are kicked. Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Carl

I pull the first few pints to get it clear then I transfer to another keg if I intend to move it around. You need to make a tubing that has two liquid out connectors hook up from the full one to the empty then just transfer . I transfer by releasing all the pressure in the full keg hook up the second CO2 purged keg and hit the first with very low PSI . As the second fills it raises the pressure and stop flowing just release the pressure as it goes. Works like a beer gun.

That's exactly what I do. I wait until the keg is providing nice clear beer, usually about a week or so until I'm sure everything has fallen out at those fridge temps, and then "jump" it into a new keg without moving the old keg to stir everything up.

As Springer said, you just use two black QDs (for ball-lock kegs) with a foot or two of beerline. Use just enough pressure to move the beer, pulling the pressure relief valve on the "new" keg when the flow slows.

When racking to the keg you can TRY not to rack every last drop and stop racking with about 1-2 beers left in the secondary. I know this is a very difficult thing to do...

Thanks guys I will try this!

carl_g said:

I like clear beer and every time I bring a keg up to my porch to share with friends the beer gets stirred up and it is all cloudy. How do people avoid this?

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I make my friends walk to the kegerator for their free beer. What about putting a locked kegerator on the porch?

Interesting thread; I had not considered that folks were racking from keg to get.

fratermus said:

I make my friends walk to the kegerator for their free beer. What about putting a locked kegerator on the porch?

Interesting thread; I had not considered that folks were racking from keg to get.

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The Home Owners Association and neighbors just love furniture and appliances on your porch!!!

But make them walk anyway...

How about a 50' picnic tap? No worries mate!