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Relax don't worry have a home brew!!

Don't touch it, it will be fine. Like the folks said when your ready to throw it in a secondary would be the time.

You nailed it!

A gentle swirl will not hurt, Breweries use pumps to bring beer to the Conditioning tanks. Introducing O2 is what will oxidize beer.

There are valve but they are not cheap, go to Mcmaster Carr's website and look up needle valves you will want stainless or brass and the right NPT.

You could try to warm it up a bit, bring it up to 75 or so for 24hrs and give it a gentle swirl. It may take off! Only draw back is you may pick up some esters.

Sounds like your liquid connector or your faucet is hanging up, try a different one and also before i would do that pull that picnic tap off and take all pressure off the keg then put your liquid line connector on and start putting a little gas through it. This will tell you if the connector is...

Look at the temperature range on the yeast you are using, myself I like the cooler temps to keep the esters down.

Finally bit the bullet and changed Jobs I landed a position at the brewery as a maintenance technician. This has been day 2 and I am lovin it, worked on the bottling machine today along with a couple of other items. Also jumped on the bottle line to learn the logistics. So if any HBT ers are...

Woops, bump

Looking for parameters for beer tools, especially for the kegs so I can start a schedule. Had them once and wrote them down, but had to dump computer and lost evrything. Any help appreciated.