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day_trippr, I think you have it. I finally got a Cub Scout knife out and whittled away all the black rubber around the post. It looks like the leak is where the threaded riser meets the keg body. So, any advice on how to repair this? I don't have welding experience, nor do I have any friends...

No dice with two dip tube o-rings either, unfortunately. I wish there was some easier way to pinpoint where exactly the leak was coming from. It's somewhere underneath the post, and it's always on the same side--if I swivel the dip tube 180 degrees, the bubbles don't rotate 180 degrees with it...

Hmm, suorangeguy gave me a in interesting thought with the mention of thread sizes. I switched both the posts and the dip tubes to opposite sides, since the threads are identical on this keg. The leak happened in the same spot on the keg body, even though the opposite post and dip tube were in...

suorangeguy, thanks so much for your offer--that's very generous of you. Unfortunately, these are ball lock posts. I don't know much about keg anatomy, but I assume I can't mix and match?

Still no luck. I tried a brand new O-ring on the leaking post without success. Then, just to try everything, I switched the poppets from the in and out posts on the keg. The in post still blows bubbles when I pour Star-San around the edge of the post. Any thoughts on where the leak could be...

Unfortunately, I tried both the post and the dip tube from another keg with no success--it still leaks from underneath the post. I don't think it's the poppet, or at least it isn't leaking from the top, so I don't suspect the poppet. I also tried adding an absurd amount of keg lube, which made a...

I recently purchased some used corny kegs from eBay and reconditioned them. Now, one of the kegs is leaking from the bottom of the gas-in post, and I don't know what to do. They arrived holding pressure--they all had some really gross soda syrup in the bottom and bled off a lot of...

Thanks--glad to hear I haven't dug myself a hole. I always think of these things right after it's too late...

Yesterday, I brewed a Berliner Weisse recipe I got from a friend, and this morning, it hit me: how am I going to bottle this thing? The friend who gave me the recipe kegs and force carbonates his beer, but I have no such equipment. The problem I see with bottling: lacto makes acid. Acid kills...

There seems to be a lot of debate in here about whether a bucket is salvageable or not. I want to throw in my 2 cents, and my qualification to speak up is that I fought a chronic infection issue for many batches--3 of them (I think) even turned into bottle bombs, which is a miserable experience...

Ok, so it's a little late in the season, but I've decided to brew a pumpkin ale. I've done a lot of reading on the forums and seen a lot of recipes, but I haven't come across a good explanation of how to use the pumpkin (hopefully I'm not missing something obvious). I'm wondering what the best...

Thanks for the tips, all! I just wanted to clarify that I had been removing my spigot from the bucket and flushing it with sanitizer (lots) before and after bottling, but apparently that wasn't enough. Mold still got in there, didn't get killed by the sanitizer, and somehow got in contact with...

Interesting, I never thought about husk dust. I only do partial mashing (~~4-5 # grain bills) at this point, so I don't have loads of dust yet, but that's something to consider in the future. GreggZ, I think you may have solved my problem!! I had no idea the spigot could even be taken apart...

I didn't in the first few batches with bottle bombs, but I do now that I switched to partial mashing. Would that cause an infection? I soak them in StarSan/OneStep while bottling. The only potentially quirky thing I do when bottling is fill the bottle (that was submerged in a big tub full of...

Thus far, I have always used the 4.5 oz packets of "priming sugar" (I think they are corn sugar" that come with the kits I have used. They have been boiled in a cup of water for 5 minutes in a pan with the lid on, then I let the pan cool to room temperature before putting it in a "sanitized"...

Oh, I found the thread where I got my info about lacto: here

Not sure which forum is the best to post this in. A few months ago, I posted about a few batches that turned into bottle bombs. Well, my problems have not gone away. I have now brewed at least 6 batches in a row that have all had overcarbonation problems leading to bottle bombs, and I don't know...

Could you clarify about the air souring things? I rent an older house with some questionable mold/mildew history, and my roommate has two dogs who do a great job of making sure everything stays stirred up. How did you decide the air was the culprit? Rinsing after drinking the beer. Then...

OP here. Wow, this thread has gotten really interesting (much more than I expected). I'm definitely starting to believe all this infection talk. The irony of my situation is that I work in a biology research lab where everyone does cell culture except for me, which has probably led me to be...

That's what I thought! Obviously as a new homebrewer, I have lots to learn, but my rationale behind not using the hydrometer was that after at least 4-5 weeks at around 70 degrees, these beers ought to be plenty done... None of my batches have been problematic until at least 2 months...