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I've been thinking about this a little more and the post about beer line freezing and backing into other kegs reminded me. I had a keg of cream ale that was soured and I let it condition for many months. It finally mellowed and got better. However, I think the cream ale went into the gas line...

Yes, but what would priming sugar have to do with one keg going bad and seemingly the other two to be affected?

Actually, I do not have a check valve on each line after the splitter. Thinking beer got backed up in the lines and now causing problems?

What's a guy gotta do around here to get his carboy cleaned!

Always kegged and only issues I've had with sour/vinegar beer is due to poor fermentation. Since I've corrected those issues, I'm at a loss for this one. Kegged an irish ale and for the first time, I let it naturally carb with 2.5 oz of priming sugar for two weeks. Put it in the kegerator...

I've never given up on cleaning a carboy, nor am I going to give up the hope of receiving a carboy cleaner.

What else is there to live for?

Reusing carboys after a good cleaning is certainly cheaper than replacing carboys after each brew. I thought carboys were a one-time use thing...

After we had to use a combination of butter and cooking oil to squeeze my 3 year old niece's hand/arm BACK thru the carboy opening, that put an end to my sister visiting during brewing hours...and consequently, an end to hand cleaned carboys.

OK. Well, it's been nearly 7 months sitting in my kegerator with CO2 feed. Tried it tonight. Finally! It has a nice, cream taste initially, followed by an aftertaste that is way off. Aftertaste is a stale, or flat like beer. I'm happy in that it's no longer a sweet vinegar taste. I will...

I decided that Labor Day was a good day to do my first AG batch. Novel idea, eh?. After reading throughout HBT and the AG sticky, I built myself a mash tun using a rectangular cooler and cpvc for the manifold. Got a big pot and the fun began. One thing I noticed, and should have done a...

Can this be a daily give away?

I'm about to leave for a month or two and was thinking I could leave CO2 hooked up to the keg. Should I expect the beer to overcome this awful taste and turn out great when I return?

Yes, I used a bucket. This same bucket is one I used last that made the horrible Schilling, but since then I had 3-4 beers come out just fine. So it could be the bacteria found in a scratch that wasn't able to get sanitized? If this is bacteria, shouldn't I have seen this on top of the beer...

Actually, I did not have a nice yeast cake. Quite minimal and not what I expected to see.

Last year, on my 5th batch or so I had a problem with a Kolsch. Tasted very bad and was a sweet, urine/vinegar taste. Dumped it. Attributed to maybe the beer was too warm for fermenting (appeared to have a small krausen ring in the bucket) In December of last year, same thing happened with a...

I was keeping up with the posts and maybe this came up. Not sure. Anyone remember this: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=6695611&page=1 also http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339242,00.asp The events happened sometime in 2008 and then came to light in 2009. Were...

Someone already mentioned this. My credit card company allows me to generate virtual card numbers, which are good for one transaction. I always use this for any online transactions. It's a slight pain to log into my account, twice, just to have one generated, but worth it. I recently placed...

Welcome from s-field/decatur/bloomington area. You're going to have fun.

I racked a pale ale one week ago. I was going to brew a cream ale and toss on the pale ale cake. One week has passed and I haven't brewed the cream ale. The yeast cake is in the fermenting bucket and has about 1/4-1/2 inch of beer on top of it. Fermenter is sealed with lid on top and...