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Success! Got a normal pour today... Last thing I did was the shake/bleed/repeat to get it down to about 5psi and it's been sitting on a 10psi connection for 6 or 7 days. Thanks again everyone for the ideas and insight. Learned a few things and now own a spunding valve & regulator to keep an...

Sorry, been away from the board for a while.... By chance I did! 34psi going in, 17psi the next day, and 10psi the day after, then I hooked them up to 10psi. SOOOOO... At least on the first day I tried pouring, I was most likely around 17psi. Can't explain the second and third and fourth days...

That was harder than it should have been, but I managed to MacGyver together a gauge. Only read ~5psi after sitting disconnected since bleeding off this morning. Didn’t know if that was because it was cold and not wanting to release gas easily so I went ahead and went through a few...

Clean the lines... Huh?? Just kidding. That one had only a few gallons pushed through it up until that point, but I did swap it with a brand new line last weekend when I was trying different lengths. Old kegerator konked out earlier this year and I took the opportunity to re-plumb...

Valid points, thank you for adding to the conversation! I tried swapping to the next faucet/line over (known "good") this morning and got the same result. Definitely not getting any liquid leakage, but went ahead and swapped out the post o-ring after that and no change. After the comments...

@DuncB I'm jealous. I've still got plastic fermenters and haven't been able to venture into the world of options that tanks which can old pressure would offer. Some day.... Some day.

Correct. Thanks for the calculator link! That gets several degrees closer to room temp than my carbonation chart does, so that will take some of the guessing out of this upcoming (and future) brews I'll need to carb outside of the kegerator.

Good tip... So am I right to think in my post above that if the beer truly was under carbonated (which I've been assuming up to this point, but am starting to question) and the head pressure was purged back to 10psi that the symptoms I'd see would be cold, semi-flat beer coming out of the...

@day_trippr I wanted you to be the winner... I swapped out the dip tube and o-ring with a sanitized surrogate and, unfortunately, still wound up with the same results. Definitely making a mental note of that though. I'd never considered that before and it made a lot of sense! Looks like this...

Crud…. Yes it is! (I was staring at a pile of posts on the table when I wrote that and didn't think that one all the way through.) I will sanitize another dip tube/o-ring and try a quick swap.

I am pretty lazy about moving out of the fermenter. I watch it with a tilt hydrometer and, at best, it will be in there a couple of weeks after in flat lines. Yes, at the time, I had enough space in the kegerator to carbonate cold. They stayed in there a few months before more real estate had...

Also interesting…. I could swap out the post fairly easily to test that. Thank you as well!

That makes sense, thank you. So, in theory, had I just moved the keg into the kegerator several weeks ago (detached from CO2 and faucet) the high head pressure would have been absorbed again from the drop in temp and I could have moved the lines over to it without the fuss.

Hi all, I hit the bottom of a keg of brown ale last Friday. I had another keg of it from the same batch that has been living outside of the kegerator (in a 72 degree room) since they were originally carbonated (together in the kegerator for several weeks at 10psi). I pulled out the empty keg...

Thank you, flow was definitely in mind. I don’t need to push a LOT, but the current pump may starve. My old DIY system miraculously came back to life yesterday so I’m kicking the can down the road for now I think! I appreciate the insight though, I may have to revisit this soon!

Hi all, my DIY glycol setup konked out on me and derailed plans to brew this weekend. I went they typical "window AC unit with the cooling coils inside a 48 qt cooler" route and have a March pump down below it that is gravity primed. This pumps out to a manifold with electric valves that are...

Thank you for the peace of mind!!

Ever had yeast cluster together in a stir plate starter??? I have 4 flasks going with WLP005 British Ale, all on stir plates, all started and stepped up with clear wort. All 4 flasks look like the pic attached. It is like a tornado of yeast. I thought the visible material might have been...