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It certainly got chatty in here quickly

A bit of a bizarre question possibly, seeing almost any wort can handle either a lager or an ale yeast of some sort, but what I'm looking for are some suggestions for good recipes that I can split the batch on using a lager yeast in one fermenter and an ale yeast in the other. Thoughts...

Cheers for that, turns out it was the post o-ring. Sorted now and beer is back on tap!

Right, so after fixing the issue with my Q/D - yup, managed to wash out an o-ring out of the top of the screw top of the Q/D and now have a new one - I reconnected the picnic tap perfectly fine this afternoon. Then, when trying again tonight it started leaking from the bottom of the Q/D. So...

Balls, I figured that must have been the case. Must have gone down the sink as the beer flushed out of that end once I opened it up. Cheers guys, glad to hear I'm not going crazy.

My one thought was that I could have screwed the top of the disconnect back on too tight an ruined the seal?

So I've just started this whole kegging jazz and, after pulling my very first beer off my brand new keg - a great Saison, my best beer so far - I wondered how to get the beer out of the line between the quick disconnect and the picnic tap. Saw here someone mentioned just unscrewing the back...

I don't want to be negative, but thought I'd post here in case anyone manages to get to the last page of this thread to say that this is the only beer I've ever thrown out. I've tried a bottle every week since bottling and at no point has it got any better. Brewed 100% to recipe, no issues...

I'm glad to see Cheese is still around and still on this thread. So I bottled mine tonight after a few weeks fermenting. I took a couple of gravity readings over that time and, as always, tasted each, and each time I've been nervous about what I tasted. Incredibly sweet but bizarrely bitter at...