Slow leak

S-04 · Post by **S-04** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:03 pm

I just discovered that I have an empty keg and about 4.5 gallons of beer in the bottom of my kegerator. I'm thinking the problem has to be with the liquid out stem. When I sanitized the keg I disassembled it and put keg lube on the o-ring, then tightened it with a wrench when I put it back together. I force carbed for 5 days with nothing connected to the out stem and everything seemed fine. Since then I've had a few well carbonated pints over a couple of days, and then today went to pour and found it empty.

Post by **mr x** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:10 pm

That's a bastard.

ethier.sc · Post by **ethier.sc** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:14 pm

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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TimG · Post by **TimG** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:36 pm

jeffsmith · Post by **jeffsmith** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:42 pm

Ouch, that sucks.

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Graham.C · Post by **Graham.C** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:51 pm

S-04 · Post by **S-04** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:36 pm

Thanks for the sympathy

At least it was the Festabrew and not my Irish stout.

canuck · Post by **canuck** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:12 pm

Festa brew or not, that really sucks!!!

dexter · Post by **dexter** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:24 pm

I feel your pain. I threw a primary into my keg fridge a few weeks ago and woke up to 18 liters of some fantastic hoppy IPA on my garage floor. The carboy must have pushed the cobra tap open

know1 · Post by **know1** » Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:11 pm

I've fell victim to loosing a couple gallons this way too. At first I suspected it was a loose post connection after mix matching posts with kegs, (ball-ball or pin-pin not cross) and some keg posts are longer than others and didn't engage enough post threads....i think anyway. And I recently lost a liter or two because i was switching outlet hoses as i'm one ball-lock short for what i have in the keezer, nonetheless the poppet was leaking past without an outlet fitting over it. My learning lesson: dedicated outlet fittings and lines for all kegs. This will all become moot when I get around to building a collar and installing taps.

S-04 · Post by **S-04** » Sat Jul 27, 2013 6:00 pm

Upon inspection, the o-ring on the out-stem of the leaky keg looked a little chewed. $0.59 a-piece. Live and learn.

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