why did my keg empty into the bottom of my keezer?

Fredderick said:

I know the title sounds like the beginning of a joke but it's true.

I had 4 kegs hooked up and I hooked a 5th keg up and a week or two later I looked in the bottom of my keezer to find the 5th keg had completely emptied into the bottom.

There was obviously a leak someplace bit just curious where and how to find it.

My co2 tank ran out but I assume it was because I had a leak in the beer line and it just emptied the whole keg and the rest of the co2 tank.

I don't even know where to begin to trouble shoot the possible leak. Is it in the keg, in the beer line, at the nipple shank... How do I know?

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day_trippr said:

Swap the beer line with one of your other kegs. If that one doesn't leak beer, the problem is most likely a bad O-ring on the Out post.

A much less likely (but not unheard of) cause would be a hole in the keg. The easiest way to eliminate that is to put enough water in the bathtub that you can sink the various surfaces of the keg a few inches deep while hooked up to CO2, and look for bubbles...

Cheers!

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grathan said:

I got a picnic tap in the mail that wasn't fully screwed in.

I've got at least 3 kegs with leaky poppets.

Try filling the keg back up with water when you get some co2 and just keep an eye on it.

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