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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.

That's a bastard.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Ouch, that sucks.


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bad

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

Festa brew or not, that really sucks!!!

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

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.

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