Keg won't flow
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:44 pm
ao I've had a keg lagering for about 6 weeks now. I wanted to carb it to 2.8 volumes so I hooked it up to 19psi for about 10 days and tonight decided to give it a try.
I turnes the gas down to 10psi, hooked up my picnic tap, pushed the lever and....nothing.
I checked the tank....it has gas. I checked the bottle knob....it's turned on. I checked the on/off lever on the regulator.....it's on. I double checked everything I could and can only get it to trickle out beer after I disconnect the gas disconnect and reattach it.
The beer is a hoppy lager.....an IPL if you will. It has a lot of hops in it so I thought maybe the bottom of the dip tube was clogged so I shot some gas down the beverage out line, reconnected the gas and beverage out connects and....just another trickle.
The fridge it was lagered in was at about 38 degrees. It's been my beer fridge for about 6 years now. It's never frozen a bottle so I seriously doubt the keg is frozen.
Also, there's no pressure relief ring to pull on the top of the keg lid so I can't yank on that so see if the keg even has pressure.
I was also just serving on this picnic tap last week and all I did to if before I hooked it up to this keg was take it apart and wash it. All the parts that came out of it went back in to it so I'm fairly certain the picnic tap isnt the problem.
Anyone have any ideas? I was hoping to crack this stuff out on Sunday.
TIA
Matt
I turnes the gas down to 10psi, hooked up my picnic tap, pushed the lever and....nothing.
I checked the tank....it has gas. I checked the bottle knob....it's turned on. I checked the on/off lever on the regulator.....it's on. I double checked everything I could and can only get it to trickle out beer after I disconnect the gas disconnect and reattach it.
The beer is a hoppy lager.....an IPL if you will. It has a lot of hops in it so I thought maybe the bottom of the dip tube was clogged so I shot some gas down the beverage out line, reconnected the gas and beverage out connects and....just another trickle.
The fridge it was lagered in was at about 38 degrees. It's been my beer fridge for about 6 years now. It's never frozen a bottle so I seriously doubt the keg is frozen.
Also, there's no pressure relief ring to pull on the top of the keg lid so I can't yank on that so see if the keg even has pressure.
I was also just serving on this picnic tap last week and all I did to if before I hooked it up to this keg was take it apart and wash it. All the parts that came out of it went back in to it so I'm fairly certain the picnic tap isnt the problem.
Anyone have any ideas? I was hoping to crack this stuff out on Sunday.
TIA
Matt

