I had a $50 pint of homebrew yesterday

[SurfBrew]

The passinig of a loved one is hard indeed.

 

[wildwest450]

If you keg your beer, it's not a question of IF but WHEN this will happen to you.

NOPE! That's why you ALWAYS check your freshly tapped kegs within an hour(and many times thereafter) of tapping. Anything else will result in fail, as we've seen here.

Anal retentiveness comes in handy, sometimes.

 

[BierMuncher]

You're not alone. The time I blew an entire keg of Ole Speckled Hen I just about converted this into a drinking utensil.

 

[HOOTER]

 

[Bobby_M]

NOPE! That's why you ALWAYS check your freshly tapped kegs within an hour(and many times thereafter) of tapping. Anything else will result in fail, as we've seen here.

Anal retentiveness comes in handy, sometimes.

And sometimes confidence bites you in the ass. I'm glad you're being extra careful but the keg draining gremlin now knows that you check often and will wait until the LAST frequent check before loosening the hose clamp on you.

 

[Austin_]

I was in your shoes recently. Luckily it was a slow leak and it only drained 4 of the 5 gallons before I caught it. I had cleaned the keg and apparently not tightened the "out" post down all the way. I agree. It's not if, but when.

 

[JamieT]

Been there... Feel your pain.. You never get over it.. Every time you open the fridge a little whiff of that IPA will remind you of a simple oversight.. Salt in the wound..

 

[Buford]

Damn. Just damn. My worst kegging accident involved a stuck liquid-out poppet due to a little piece of coriander in a pseudo-wit (so I had a beer geyser), but I was quick enough to shove a liquid-out QD attached to a tap on and bled the pressure off with the keg's valve so I could fix it.

 

[beerkrump]

My condolences. Where can I send flowers or a donation in your beer's name?

Aside, I would have been bailing that stuff through a coffee filter and praying like crazy, "Please, God. Please save my beer. I promise, I'll never say that word again."

 

[StunnedMonkey]

Aside, I would have been bailing that stuff through a coffee filter and praying like crazy, "Please, God. Please save my beer. I promise, I'll never day that word again."

I don't think a coffee filter would have cut it. I put this keezer (5 taps) together last fall and it's never been cleaned out. There was some pretty disgusting stuff afloat in that IPA. If nothing else I had a chance to wipe the thing down.

So I got that going for me, which is nice.