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Thank you guys. I actually did up the pressure on Halloween to try to blow it out but I think I'm going to have to settle with racking it to a new keg. I just think there's too much muck in there. Really appreciate all the help, thank you!

Yes, on the original problem which finally was solved....on to the next. I imagine the only way to resolve this one would be to transfer and strain to a new keg, right?

Well guys, you're going to kill me....seems either I didn't realize the poppets were different when I reassembled the keg or I had one too many beers while kegging (or both) but I swapped the QDs during the party and whattaya know...it worked. I, in fact, had switched the poppets upon...

Problem is that this keg JUST worked with a prior batch. The only thing I've done is dissassembled the tubes for cleaning and sanitizing between batches and I'm pretty darn certain I put the thing back together properly... Unless (and I doubt this) I swapped sides with the posts. The gas...

Okay...but man I'm pissed because I won't have time today, ahead of our Halloween party. Could there be anything else a moron like me could be missing? 1) QD works on another keg 2) Poppet can be depressed by hand, producing beer (which makes me think it might actually not be the poppet)...

Yep...yep...yep... No problem drawing my porter from another keg. I lack all handiness; I don't think I'd know how to take it apart let alone put it back together! About the extent of my abilities were exhausted when I figured out to release the pressure and thereby avoid that beer shower...

Well, I was able to depress the liquid poppet (after disconnecting the gas and pulling the air release) and beer dribbled out so I guess it's not the poppet. For some dang reason, I still can't get the QD on the poppet...and I actually haven't disconnected it to clean... I looked inside...

Yep...sitting square...or round, as it were...the 'pin' of the valve is flush with the post body, if that makes sense so it appears to be fitting right. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too... Not a new keg; I've used both the keg and the QD before... What is a 'nail set'? The pin...

So I've kegged several batches without a problem. I have a Danby kegerator with a single tap and I've never had any problems switching kegs...until now. I just brewed a Pliny clone that I'm looking to tap on Halloween and it's been on the gas for several weeks but at the time I kegged it, I...

Okay, I think I've got it...thanks very much for all your help! And you're right....who knows if I'll ever go the commercial keg route but I love having options.

Thank you guys....hey JRems...which one is the ffl barb?

I think I get it! So no extra tubing required; just cut the gas & beer lines, add those barb MFL connectors...clamp 'em down and those MFL connectors go right to the sanky or the QD. How many tailpieces do I need?

Thank you very much....trying to make sense of this because I'm a moron... So cut off the current beer line and wing nut that I have coming down from the tower....(Danby manual here, top of page 9: http://www.danby.com/cms/uploads/products/en_manual/DKC146SLDB_manual.pdf )... Add instead...

So...I just started up a few months ago now, have 3 brews under my belt (German Hefe, IPA & Porter) and I am going all in on this new, great hobby. I bottled the Hefe & IPA and they turned out great, despite a few newb errors. I pulled the trigger on an early holiday gift when I saw Costco...

Well, 3 batches down....tasted the first 2...German Hefe & IPA and they turned out great despite a few errors....Porter will be kegged (first time) and ready for the holidays!

Terrapin, you're ON on that invite...give me a few batches to get under my belt (and share with you as well) and you, sir, are ON. Thank you for the tip on Stein Fillers...I hadn't heard of them. I did stop by this place in Torrance on my way home; a real nice shop and I might hit up their...

Thank you guys! And AC...I think I finally get it...and it makes sense now; I'm a dope. Because the initial (non-alcoholic) wort has OG (Original Gravity)/SG (Starting Gravity) of 1.040 and it has no alcohol, yet it has gravity...so you take that weight and subtract the difference between...

Thank you AC...I'm still a little unclear...so my Hydrometer actually has a triple scale on it. So on Saturday, when the gravity read 1.010, I just rotated the hydrometer around to read where the acohol content was right there and it was about 4%. So is it safe to say that with my particular...

Thanks guys...yes, patience is not my strongest suit but I'm working on it. The hygrometer was a bit confusing....I'm still trying to figure out why it is we need to take a primary reading if we're only doing it to read the alcohol content... So the beer currently is at 1.010 or about 4%...

Okay, so I racked to secondary (glass carboy) on Saturday after 7 days of primary fermentation in the bucket. I've read I don't need to do this but for practice since this is my first ever batch, I gave racking to secondary a go. I checked the hydrometer reading only once but it read 1.010 and...