As of yesterday evening...I think I officially hate picnic taps. Due to...moreorless a complete lack of confidence with my brewing as of late, I've developed a habit of hooking up a picnic tap to a conditioning keg. This has a couple different purposes. One, to make sure I'm not going to dump it. Two, to test carbonation. Three, to save myself some time and grief from cleaning the line (again) if I'm just going to end up dumping the damn beer.
Last night, open up the kegerator and the damn thing has evidently been dripping since the last time I opened it up which was sometime last week. Not a horrible mess, but enough that I felt the need to clean it all up which was annoying. Not the first time that this has happened, but this last event was definitely the worst one.
I've got an extra faucet that I stopped using because it doesn't operate as smooth as I'd like it to. I think the tolerances are a little off between the shuttle? and the inner bore. Think I'll put something together so I can just use that off a ball lock connector to fulfill the same use case.