Holy Mount Saint Hellens batman!!! So here is the scoop:
1. I fermented mt Dunkelweizen for ~3 weeks.
2. Then I transferred the beer into a 5 gal keg with priming sugar for carbonation
3. It has been about 1 week and I wanted to "test" the beer to see if it was ready to put into the keggerator.
4. I hooked up my tap line and gave it about a 1 sec spritz of Co2 from my portable 16oz Co2 device.
What happened next can only be described at excessive alcohol abuse!! It was alcohol abuse because I must have dumped 6 glasses of...foam beer.
The pressure was INTENSE....the beer came shooting out of that pic-nic tap at a force and color that can only be described as explosive diarrhea! My keggerator has the squirts...bad!!
The beer shot out of that tap like it was on fire...it filled my liter glass in about 2 seconds and it was all foam beer...no liquid beer to be found.
I thought.....hmmmmm maybe there is too much pressure in that keg from the carbonation process, so when I tried to pure the pressure, foam beer came shooting out of that tiny valve and all over me, my kitchen and my cat!!
So I ask you....WTH did I do wrong????
- the keg was kept out of the refrigerator during the Co2 building process and I have not chilled it yet.
- I have about 7 feet of line coming from my keg to the tap
- the beer glass was room temp, but the lines were cold.
- I have purged the Co2 pressure from the keg right now.
1. I fermented mt Dunkelweizen for ~3 weeks.
2. Then I transferred the beer into a 5 gal keg with priming sugar for carbonation
3. It has been about 1 week and I wanted to "test" the beer to see if it was ready to put into the keggerator.
4. I hooked up my tap line and gave it about a 1 sec spritz of Co2 from my portable 16oz Co2 device.
What happened next can only be described at excessive alcohol abuse!! It was alcohol abuse because I must have dumped 6 glasses of...foam beer.
The pressure was INTENSE....the beer came shooting out of that pic-nic tap at a force and color that can only be described as explosive diarrhea! My keggerator has the squirts...bad!!
The beer shot out of that tap like it was on fire...it filled my liter glass in about 2 seconds and it was all foam beer...no liquid beer to be found.
I thought.....hmmmmm maybe there is too much pressure in that keg from the carbonation process, so when I tried to pure the pressure, foam beer came shooting out of that tiny valve and all over me, my kitchen and my cat!!
So I ask you....WTH did I do wrong????
- the keg was kept out of the refrigerator during the Co2 building process and I have not chilled it yet.
- I have about 7 feet of line coming from my keg to the tap
- the beer glass was room temp, but the lines were cold.
- I have purged the Co2 pressure from the keg right now.