Keg hooked up, no beer comes out?

[sablesurfer]

This is a first for me. Swapping out kegs on a line I know works. Hooked up gas and then hooked up tap, nothing but a very slight trickle of foam in the hose. This is a general ale, no dry hopping, keg conditioned like all my others. Pressure from conditioning released before CO2 hooked up

Troubleshooting:

- Pulled gas, released pressure again, put gas on, can hear it flowing in.
- Pulled tap hose and put on picnic hose but no go
- Also wide open picnic tap I sucked on hose, no go
- Pulled CO2, released pressure, and tried to back flow. Could hear bubbles in tank so I know right dip tubes and stuff goes in.​

Never had this happen in the year I have been kegging and only other thread I see never ended with a resolution.

 

[Hammy71]

Often if I'm not careful raking to the keg (especially with an IPA), hop material can clog the poppet. Try hooking up to another tap if you can, see if same result. Either that or poppet didn't set right. Both require pulling the relief valve and fixing the problem.

 

[Shakybones]

I had this problem recently. It turned out that a bit of hops from my dry hopping ended up clogging the tube/poppet. I just released the pressure, star-saned the outside of the beer-out fitting, pulled it and the tube out and rinsed them well with star-san. Problem solved.

I hope your fix is that easy.

 

[sablesurfer]

Hey Hammy, that got posted before I had finished. OP is updated correctly now.

 

[sablesurfer]

Ok, I have pulled the dip tubes and cleaned up poppets. But still no go.

(However, it seems I lied you all, hope you can forgive me!!, but yep this is dry hopped in keg. But it was pellets and not whole, so not sure what is going on.)

Next I transfer to a different keg. Maybe I can transfer out some cleaner beer. Might cold crash first...but I have to take bottom half of refrigerator apart to fit the keg.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Narrow it down. If you push down the beer out poppit does liquid come out? If so it might be your QD. If not and there is pressure in the keg then it is probably a clogged dip tube or poppit. Since you disassembled the poppits it would probably be a clogged dip tube

 

[sablesurfer]

Thanks for the feedback guys. Transferred out of that keg (after a night of cold crashing in fridge), and the dip tube was buried in trub and the poppet was completely clogged with hop debris.

Both are odd because, I have never had that much yeast in bottom of a conditioned keg before (safale 05) and first time I cleaned the tubes and poppets there wasn't nearly as much gunk.

Unfortunately now I have to wait for carbing to happen now over another night....sigh.