Stuck keg

[Kinnick21]

I brewed an IPA and it appears to have the keg stuck. I have cleaned the dip tube twice but still only works if I have PSI absolutely cranked. Should I siphon to another keg or what should I do?

 

[MGamber]

I brewed an IPA and it appears to have the keg stuck. I have cleaned the dip tube twice but still only works if I have PSI absolutely cranked. Should I siphon to another keg or what should I do?

You didn't mention why it's stuck but being an IPA, I'm guessing it's hops. What's worked for me is to put a siphon in a sanitized stainless hop spider and siphon it to another keg. A hop sock will work, too, but it'll cling to the siphon and need to be removed and cleared several times. Another option is to buy a Clear Beer Draught System (with screen) and replace the dip tube with that. That device has saved a handful of batches for me and you don't need to transfer to another keg.

 

[papz]

A few people i've met have blown CO2 gas INTO the beer line out.
That should clear up the dip tube.
If you have so much hop debris that it instantly re-clogs up your dip tube, perhaps you should filter or re-cold crash/rack the brew.

 

[homebrewer_99]

You could dump the pressure, remove the dip tube and blow it out. Insert it back into the keg a couple of inches and attach a hop bag to the end. Then push it all the way back down, purge and and re-pressurize.

 

[tll77]

While you've got that dip tube out, give the post and poppet a clean out as well. Hop debris can easily clog up around the spring.

 

[gnef]

What I do in these circumstances, is to release all the head pressure, remove the liquid post, remove the poppet from the post, then also remove the poppet from the QD, and put it back on before regassing the keg.

This works well for most faucets. If you have a flow control like I do, hops can also get stuck there though, and I sometimes have to take the faucet off the shank to clean out gunk that has collected.

 

[krenshaw]

I had a stuck keg before because the beer line was pushing up against some frost that built up towards the collar of my keezer. May be something as simple as bending it a bit to crack and flush it out.