sogrady
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Hoping someone can help with a little bit of a keg mystery. Current kegorator setup is two taps: one a regular Sankey, the other one a Corny for homebrew. The latter is new, but we already ran through one barrel on it with no issues. After the first barrel, I cleaned the Corny keg, left cleaning solution in it, repressurized it and ran the cleaning solution through the lines.
Fast forward to our second batch. Cleaned the keg again, including taking apart and cleaning both gas and beer lines. Rack from secondary into the keg, attach the gas line - pressure's around 11 PSI - and wait a week. Assuming it's now carbonated, I attach the beer line and pull the tap. Nothing but a trickle comes out, and what does is clearly uncarbonated.
Other items for consideration. CO2 tank is fine: the Sankey tap poured fine while getting nothing but a drip from the Corny. CO2 meanwhile *is* getting into the keg. When I vent the Corny a bit, you can hear gas going back in. Not enough, obviously, but some. Valves on the gas regulator have been checked and are open, so it's not that.
Question is then where my problem lies. Is the gas coupler bad? I assume not as it's basically brand new and worked previously. Only thing I can think of is maybe the poppet valve on the tank is blown? Something else I'm missing?
Anyway, any guesses as to what you think I should check? And how to remediate? Hate to waste a whole batch.
Fast forward to our second batch. Cleaned the keg again, including taking apart and cleaning both gas and beer lines. Rack from secondary into the keg, attach the gas line - pressure's around 11 PSI - and wait a week. Assuming it's now carbonated, I attach the beer line and pull the tap. Nothing but a trickle comes out, and what does is clearly uncarbonated.
Other items for consideration. CO2 tank is fine: the Sankey tap poured fine while getting nothing but a drip from the Corny. CO2 meanwhile *is* getting into the keg. When I vent the Corny a bit, you can hear gas going back in. Not enough, obviously, but some. Valves on the gas regulator have been checked and are open, so it's not that.
Question is then where my problem lies. Is the gas coupler bad? I assume not as it's basically brand new and worked previously. Only thing I can think of is maybe the poppet valve on the tank is blown? Something else I'm missing?
Anyway, any guesses as to what you think I should check? And how to remediate? Hate to waste a whole batch.