What not to do with a full 5 gallon keg of beer.
I made a pale ale last month, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with it, except that it had no flavor. As a Budweiser it was great. Now I have read Revvy's article about never throwing out your beer, but there was no way that the beer Gods were going to come down and add hops to this beer.
So I needed the keg, and a sacrifice had to be made.
So I opened the pressure relief valve of the keg, let off all the pressure, and then popped the lid.
Beer Volcanoe in 3.. 2.. 1...
Thats when the &^%$ hit the fan. Beer started pouring out, I don't mean like a hose faucet on full blast, I mean full force volcano. It hit the ceiling, all I could do was grab it, and throw it into the sink upside down.
Beer on the walls, beer on the ceiling, beer flowing down the garage floor.
I have done this before, and never had a problem. Somewhere there is a very old professor of Chemistry, who is currently laughing at me. Not only did I forget the equation of what happens to a gas trapped in solution under pressure when that that pressure is relieved, but for the moment I forgot the concept.
I made a pale ale last month, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with it, except that it had no flavor. As a Budweiser it was great. Now I have read Revvy's article about never throwing out your beer, but there was no way that the beer Gods were going to come down and add hops to this beer.
So I needed the keg, and a sacrifice had to be made.
So I opened the pressure relief valve of the keg, let off all the pressure, and then popped the lid.
Beer Volcanoe in 3.. 2.. 1...
Thats when the &^%$ hit the fan. Beer started pouring out, I don't mean like a hose faucet on full blast, I mean full force volcano. It hit the ceiling, all I could do was grab it, and throw it into the sink upside down.
Beer on the walls, beer on the ceiling, beer flowing down the garage floor.
I have done this before, and never had a problem. Somewhere there is a very old professor of Chemistry, who is currently laughing at me. Not only did I forget the equation of what happens to a gas trapped in solution under pressure when that that pressure is relieved, but for the moment I forgot the concept.
