Beer not Coming out of Keg

[imperialipa]

So I have been carbonating my IPA in Corney keg for 2 weeks now at 20 psi.. Room temperature. I went to day to drop the psi to 7 and put it in the fridge. Hooked up all the hoses and a trickle of beer can out at first but it quickly stopped and now no beer is coming out.

Too out the dip tube and cleaned it out. Washed out the valve for the beer out connection. Still nothing...

Short of transferring this back to a 2ndary and completly dismantling the corney anyone have any suggestions on what could be wrong?

 

[bf514921]

would you happen to have a picture of eveything? what pressure are you serving at 7 psi?

 

[imperialipa]

Its a standard corney keg with a CO2 connection on the In and a connection to the hose/tap on the out.

7 psi is the recommended serving PSI at 35 degrees. But even when I crank it up to 20 psi still nothing comes out.

The IPA has alot of leaf and alot of trub but I did 2ndary conditoning after primary so I got most of it out...

 

[OntarioBeerKegs]

Do you hear sputtering with the faucet open? I would try taking isolating the block by:

-removing both connects

-Manually push the gas connect pin to ensure no block.

-Manually open faucet and push liquid pin and blow in faucet feel for pressure (I know it is not hygienic!)

-Manually and carefully push the liquid out post (beware of shower)

 

[OntarioBeerKegs]

I hate to ask this one, please do not take offence. You have a black disconnect on the liquid out?

 

[brewmonk]

are you sure that you had enough pressure in it to seat the seal on the lid? do you have any gas left?

if there is that little pressure in the keg now, you should hear gas rushing into the (pressurizing) keg.

 

[SpottedDogBrewing]

is your dip tube blocked? try puting the gas in on the beer out and blow out the beer out line.

 

[imperialipa]

I took out the dip tube and it was clear. Ran hot water thru it and soaked it in starsan before putting it back in. Still nothing coming out at all. Not even a sputter.

So I hooked the co2 up to the out pulled the reliev valve onthe corney. Nothing...

Cranked it up to 30 psi and pulled the relif valve and got pressure coming out...

Hooked everything back up and not its flowing.

I'm thinking ther might be a small trub cake at the botton of the corney that the dip tube was getting stuck in.

Thanks for the tips gang all is well and my Sinisteral Warrior IPA is flowing like the Salmon of Capistrano....

 

[Eisendrath]

I'm thinkin check valve in the beer out may have some blockage. remove it, clean it reassemble, check it for freedom of movement, add a couple of psi and push it in with a ballpoint to see if it flows,

 

[BoxofRain]

Check your diptubes. Sounds like you may have them swapped inside the keg. Make sure the short one is on the "in" and the long one is on the "out."

 

[Eisendrath]

Check your diptubes. Sounds like you may have them swapped inside the keg. Make sure the short one is on the "in" and the long one is on the "out."

If they were swapped, CO2 would be going in the bottom, bubbling up thru and coming out the the top. There would be flow of foamy CO2. Dudes got no flow, either direction.....
So far:
-tube is cleaned
-check valve is suspect

 

[ArcaneXor]

Some trub may be blocking the poppet. Dissamble the post and see if there is any crap in there. Or cut the diptube so that its end is above the trub layer.

 

[BoxofRain]

If they were swapped, CO2 would be going in the bottom, bubbling up thru and coming out the the top

Agreed. But for good measure, I still say he should check that. Oh...and his volume gauge.

 

[SpottedDogBrewing]

Make sure the plastic pin inside of plastic gas connection isn't broke or bent!

 

[imperialipa]

It was trub on the bottom. I hooked the CO2 to the out and cranked it up to 30 PSI... Pulled the release on the corney and after a second air started coming out the top.

Hooked up everything back to normal and now I have beer flow! The dip tube must have been sitting in trub at the bottom.