I have tried everything... Help...

[Brewin_CRAZY]

Ok, the time has come to ask the masses...

I have had a small leak in one of my beer lines for a while now and I think that I have done everything to correct it, but nothing has worked. The problem is just a small leak that causes what I would assume to be air in my line, over a few days there is about 3 inches of air that has displaced liquid but I dont have the issue on my other tap (two tap beer tower).

I cut the ends off and reattached everything using new hose clamps. My ball locks seem to be sealing fine, no beer is leaking out at all and I sprayed everything with starsan, nothing seems to be leaking gas. My keg post is on just fine, the keg holds pressure when I turn off the CO2 but just to be safe I put a little keg lube on each post.

The line that is leaking is connected to a nitro tap that is currently running CO2 (waiting for my nitro). I dont know if that makes any difference but Im seriously lost at this point. I dont remember this being a problem in the past on this tap, I just recently noticed that I was getting air before liquid would come out of my tap... Any ideas guys?

 

[red999]

Do you know how much beer is left in that keg? I've noticed the same thing in my beer lines that are attached to kegs that are almost kicked. I get quite a bit of air in the lines.

 

[Brewin_CRAZY]

Do you know how much beer is left in that keg? I've noticed the same thing in my beer lines that are attached to kegs that are almost kicked. I get quite a bit of air in the lines.

Great idea, but there is still like 2-3 gal in it. It is a 14% beer though... maybe that is extracting CO2 in the beer line?

 

[springer]

has to be CO2 coming out of solution. If you had a leak beer would be all over since the keg and line is pressurized air can't get in. Perhaps a warm spot in the line?

 

[Bobby_M]

It's just the beer warming up in the line and releasing CO2.

 

[shortyjacobs]

I have this problem when I shake'n'carb my beer instead of letting it carb slowly...if I overcarb a bit, (say I carb the beer to 14 psi, but have the reg set at 12), I get this problem. I fix it by shutting off gas to the keg and "partially purging" it, (just purging some of the pressure, not all!), and letting it sit overnight to allow some CO2 to come out of solution...then turning gas back on in the morning.

 

[Brewin_CRAZY]

It's just the beer warming up in the line and releasing CO2.

SO you would just assume its a little CO2. I mean we are talking like 2-3 inches over the course of a few days and it is in a tower so the beer lines could def warm up a little. Makes sense to me. The beer in the line sure doesnt taste oxidized or anything like that.