solavirtus
Well-Known Member
I just got into kegging, putting together a bare bones setup with a CO2 tank, regulator, 5 gallon ball lock keg, and picnic tap. My first kegged batch started off good. Clean/santized keg, hooking up the gas, all that. I pressurized to 30 PSI, shook it up for a few minutes, let it sit for an hour in the beer fridge, then purged pressure and set to 10 PSI. A few days later, I go to pull off a half pint just to see where things are at. When I quit depressing the picnic tap, the beer didn't quit coming out! Eventually I wiggled it enough to get the beer to stop squirting out. I don't know what the deal is. And the next morning, I go out and it looks like there was a slow/small leak from the picnic tap, making a bit of a mess in my beer fridge.
Help! Any suggestions? Is there something I'm missing or doing wrong?
tl;dr - my picnic tap tends to leak, eventually quits, but not sure how to deal with it.
Help! Any suggestions? Is there something I'm missing or doing wrong?
tl;dr - my picnic tap tends to leak, eventually quits, but not sure how to deal with it.