This is my first brew - I have been consuming commercial kegged beer at home and know my system fairly well - swapped out sanke for ball lock fittings etc.
My first beer - a pale ale extract kit everything went smoothly and I transfered out of primary and into keg 2 days ago. I put the keg in my kegerator (~34-36 degrees and it was sitting there for the past 2 days)
Today I attempted the 30 psi shake for 2 minutes force carb method. I could hear the beer bubbling so I thought everything was going to be fine (I likely stirred up all kinds of junk that settled out by doing this I think) Anyhow - I bled off the pressure (foam went everywhere) and set the C02 to 10psi serving pressure. I have 10 foot lines and Flow control Perlicks. I get ZERO flow from the tap. I can see beer in the line - and the beer does come out when I hit the poppet valve on the liquid out post. I tried increasing the pressure to 30 psi - still no beer. I verified the posts are connected and on the correct source. I even tried taking the tap off and connecting the gas and liquid to see if anything came flying out of the shank - just a tiny bit of foam and that is it. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong - or how many things I did wrong ;-)
Thanks!
My first beer - a pale ale extract kit everything went smoothly and I transfered out of primary and into keg 2 days ago. I put the keg in my kegerator (~34-36 degrees and it was sitting there for the past 2 days)
Today I attempted the 30 psi shake for 2 minutes force carb method. I could hear the beer bubbling so I thought everything was going to be fine (I likely stirred up all kinds of junk that settled out by doing this I think) Anyhow - I bled off the pressure (foam went everywhere) and set the C02 to 10psi serving pressure. I have 10 foot lines and Flow control Perlicks. I get ZERO flow from the tap. I can see beer in the line - and the beer does come out when I hit the poppet valve on the liquid out post. I tried increasing the pressure to 30 psi - still no beer. I verified the posts are connected and on the correct source. I even tried taking the tap off and connecting the gas and liquid to see if anything came flying out of the shank - just a tiny bit of foam and that is it. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong - or how many things I did wrong ;-)
Thanks!