So I just made my biggest mistake in a while.
My brother and I started a Surly Furious clone a month ago. 8.5 oz of dry hops in a glass carboy (directly, no hop bag) two weeks ago. Racked to 5 gallon Korny keg. Cold crashed about a week ago. Gelatin a few days ago. Co2 for the last couple days at ~11 psi. Which brings us to me going for a slightly impatient first taste.
Tried the tap and nothing came out. Upped the pressure a bit, still nothing. Put the gas on the liquid post to blow any hop particles out of the dip tube. Gas flows but didn't loosen it up enough.
Take out keg, take off the post, the dip tube is clear but the poppet is jammed. I tried just cleaning it all and replacing but same result in a couple seconds.
Clean it up again and get the idea to take the poppet out. Leave the poppet out of the post. Figure out from this post (thanks. I guess.) how to take poppet/valve from the disconnect. Re-assemble everything.
I was smart enough to put the liquid line on first (to my little picnic faucet). I attached the gas, still heightened pressure. Finally I get some progress and take off 10-20 pretty dirty ounces. Okay, good, back to the kitchen to put things back. Hmm, the liquid disconnect looks like it's leaking a bit, I better be close to the sink. Okay, let's get that off there quick. Oops. No! No nonoonoono.
My gas was still at 25PSI and I put a pretty good amount of beer on the ceiling. In the light fixture (pretty lucky it didn't short circuit). Of course the floor had a big puddle. And my hat, shirt, counters, half my beer making stuff, clean dishes, plants, windows.
That was 2am.
It's now 5...
I might try putting a dip tube from a 3 gallon keg to see if it gets less crap.
My brother and I started a Surly Furious clone a month ago. 8.5 oz of dry hops in a glass carboy (directly, no hop bag) two weeks ago. Racked to 5 gallon Korny keg. Cold crashed about a week ago. Gelatin a few days ago. Co2 for the last couple days at ~11 psi. Which brings us to me going for a slightly impatient first taste.
Tried the tap and nothing came out. Upped the pressure a bit, still nothing. Put the gas on the liquid post to blow any hop particles out of the dip tube. Gas flows but didn't loosen it up enough.
Take out keg, take off the post, the dip tube is clear but the poppet is jammed. I tried just cleaning it all and replacing but same result in a couple seconds.
Clean it up again and get the idea to take the poppet out. Leave the poppet out of the post. Figure out from this post (thanks. I guess.) how to take poppet/valve from the disconnect. Re-assemble everything.
I was smart enough to put the liquid line on first (to my little picnic faucet). I attached the gas, still heightened pressure. Finally I get some progress and take off 10-20 pretty dirty ounces. Okay, good, back to the kitchen to put things back. Hmm, the liquid disconnect looks like it's leaking a bit, I better be close to the sink. Okay, let's get that off there quick. Oops. No! No nonoonoono.
My gas was still at 25PSI and I put a pretty good amount of beer on the ceiling. In the light fixture (pretty lucky it didn't short circuit). Of course the floor had a big puddle. And my hat, shirt, counters, half my beer making stuff, clean dishes, plants, windows.
That was 2am.
It's now 5...
I might try putting a dip tube from a 3 gallon keg to see if it gets less crap.