Any ideas?One for the Experts (keg related)
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LiverDance
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One for the Experts (keg related)
I've got a keg of american session ale ready to go and I can't get the beer out of it. There was a hop bag in there and i took it out, no beer. I tried blowing out the dip tube with CO2, no beer. I took out the dip tube and cleaned it, no beer. I replaced the dip tube, no beer. I switched between serving lines, no beer. It's not frozen. Gas goes in fine. Any ideas?
Any ideas?"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Re: One for the Experts (keg related)
Try leaning it and run the gas in the liquid connection and the beer out the gas post.
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Re: One for the Experts (keg related)
1) When you blew out the dip tube with CO2, was that just gas in the out side?
2) Could there be a problem with your beer-out ball lock fitting or tap?
2) Could there be a problem with your beer-out ball lock fitting or tap?
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Re: One for the Experts (keg related)
Well I narrowed it down to the post I believe. I didn't think it was the post because when I depressed it it shot beer out but then I replaced it with another and it's working better, not great but better. I believe there is also a lot of hop debris in there cause some hell as well.
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Re: One for the Experts (keg related)
This has happened to me before. Hops kept getting all up in the post spring. I would purge with CO2 but there was so much hop debris on the bottom of the keg that it would clog up again almost immediately. I picked them out of the post a few times and it just kept happening. I ended up zip-tying some cheese cloth over the end of the dip tube. To do that, you obviously have to reach inside the keg once the tube is in. The beer poured slower but at least it flowed.LiverDance wrote:Well I narrowed it down to the post I believe. I didn't think it was the post because when I depressed it it shot beer out but then I replaced it with another and it's working better, not great but better. I believe there is also a lot of hop debris in there cause some hell as well.
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Re: One for the Experts (keg related)
Yeah it is a pain in th ass for now but it's flowing a bit so I'll survive. I must have got a hole in my dry hop bag somehow.
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Re: One for the Experts (keg related)
Does your connector have the little push down thing. I have some where they are plastic and could break.
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Re: One for the Experts (keg related)
I used to get the poppet plugging with my watermelon wheat, and the lime coconut wheat plugged with zest.
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