beer diaster

[brockettbrews]

i put my mr. beer keg in the sink with some towels and ice to keep the temp at 55 degrees. woke up this morning and heard some water dripping. one of the towels pushed the lever on the keg and emptied the keg. man that sucks!!!

 

[Varmintman]

Oh man that just sucks.

 

[brewski08]

most definitely a sign from the brew gods: time to upgrade to higher quality beers.

my respects to Mr. Beer. you serve all brewers well...except in this instance.

 

[brockettbrews]

it wasnt a mr. beer. it was an all grain german pilsner. i just use the mr beer kit for ferm for my small batches.

 

[DroolingNeoBrewery]

mr. beer fermentors (the lbk as the mr beer fans call it) is a great fv but as with anything with a spigot you have to make sure its closed and stays closed. There are 2 styles of spigots for lbks. the one that takes the bottling wand looks like its lever sits flat when closed and presses down. if something is sitting on top of it it will probably open (terrible design imo). the older style has a vertical lever that presses towards the lbk and requires some force to stay open.

if your having spigot issues you can replace the mr beer one with a standard threaded spigot from your lhbs.

 

[Revvy]

it wasnt a mr. beer. it was an all grain german pilsner. i just use the mr beer kit for ferm for my small batches.

Yeah. I was cleaning mine out the other day after it soaked with oxyclean and accidently hit the spigot and got a gush, and I was thinking "Man, lucky it wasn't beer in there."

Sorry man.

Some folks have actually replaced that crappy spigot with a genuine ball valve. Like these.

I've thought about doing that. It's a pain to have to hold it open if you are draining it.

 

[brockettbrews]

i just hold it open for a minute and dump the rest out when cleaning it.

 

[petey_c]

The original spigot that comes with Mr. B, needs you to hold it open while you pour. That must have been a pretty heavy towel to have kept the spigot pressed, or a combi. of pressures.

 

[passedpawn]

Geez revvy, I can't see those ball valves. Can you find a bigger pic

 

[Revvy]

Geez revvy, I can't see those ball valves. Can you find a bigger pic

What are you talking about it's small on my screen, I'm on an 11.5" netbook?
The pics are automatically resized these days aren't they? They are on all the computers I'm viewing HBT on. The pics are all compressed to fit the screen these days, aren't they? It started a couple months back.

I used to resize all pics I posted, or find smaller ones on the web, but it started doing it automatically on here awhile back.

 

[passedpawn]

What are you talking about it's small on my screen, I'm on an 11.5" netbook?
The pics are automatically resized these days aren't they? They are on all the computers I'm viewing HBT on. The pics are all compressed to fit the screen these days, aren't they? It started a couple months back.

I used to resize all pics I posted, or find smaller ones on the web, but it started doing it automatically on here awhile back.

My fault. I had the resize setting set to 1600 for my center monitor (1680 wide), but was looking at the page on my portrait monitor (1080 wide). I just changed the setting in my User CP to 1000 and it fixed it.