Yeah, new dual body reg will have a cage. The one I broke was a freebie from the guy who gave me the CO2 tank. I never liked it and intended to upgrade it as part of this project anyway. Just wish I hadn’t actually rendered it useless.
I found a bottle of Sam Adams Jack o Pumpkin from last year's fall variety pack still hanging around in the fridge. I opened it thinking, "maybe this tastes better than I remember." Don't do that.
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Dry hops plugged 2" dump port on CF15. After trying to break the clog with a spoon to no avail, resorted to loading up 14 psi on top of the beer. Well, what wasn't working finally led to this explosion across a garage that's not typically this congested (in the process of building a nursery for our first). This led to quite a fun day of cleaning - there is good news... the beer is absolutely fine! In all seriousness, I'm very thankful I wasn't standing in front of the port, or this bad situation would've likely been muchhhh worse.
I still remember messing with a spunding valve on my fermzilla and mistakenly putting it on the liquid post while under pressure... don't do that. Thankfully the power outlet it decided to shoot at was a GFCI.I noticed my gas poppets sometimes leak a few tiny bubbles, while the keg is under pressure. I check that by dripping a few drops of Starsan on top of the post, small leaks like that are easy to spot that way. Just pushing the poppet in with a nail set tool and releasing it quickly, usually reseats them correctly. May take 2 or 3 tries.
When the same occurred on a liquid post, oozing beer out slowly, I grabbed the nail set, and did the same...
Don't do that!
I had a keg slightly under pressure with a weak poppet spring. Pushing the pin in resulted in it getting stuck in the post, wide open. SPC solution EVERYWHERE.I noticed my gas poppets sometimes leak a few tiny bubbles, while the keg is under pressure. I check that by dripping a few drops of Starsan on top of the post, small leaks like that are easy to spot that way. Just pushing the poppet in with a nail set tool and releasing it quickly, usually reseats them correctly. May take 2 or 3 tries.
When the same occurred on a liquid post, oozing beer out slowly, I grabbed the nail set, and did the same...
Don't do that!
Let me emphasize the staggering dumbness of this action.[...] When the same occurred on a liquid post, oozing beer out slowly, I grabbed the nail set, and did the same...
Don't do that!
As I ponder this thread, I realize how many mistakes I've made over the years! I just brewed today and managed to come up with a new one. As I was stirring my kettle, I heard a rattling noise and quickly realized I had not inserted the dip tube in my kettle valve during setup; it was just laying on the bottom under boiling wort. After some initial freaking out, I figured I had two options. Drain as much wort into my fermenter as I could, and then pour the rest in old school. Or try and get the dip tube inserted. I was brewing an extract batch and I let the wort cool for ten minutes or so before the late extract addition. I gave it a little extra time today, added the extract (which cools things down a little more), double-gloved up and stuck my hand in the 190 degree wort.
I managed to get the dip tube in and not scald myself, but best advice is "Don't do that!"
The plastic cover on the steel valve handle came off my kettle drain a long time ago...
Not sure if this would fit or not, but I thought I'd mention it:I'll use a net to help lift buckets around as a backup until I find something better or maybe someone here uses something else.
Don't live this nightmare.
BTW-using new buckets now.
Amazon has heavy-duty plastic milk crates that buckets will fit in, as well as 7g Fermonsters, which is what I use. I use them to move them around if need be, and also to keep the spigot out of the way of crazy young cat who likes to take naps on the wooly blankey I wrap my fermonster in when I'm using kveik yeast.Well I am ashamed to admit this. A couple weeks ago brewing this happened. It has been said to replace your plastic fermentation buckets if you have scratches to prevent infections. I've been using mine for over 15 years and the only infections I got were from some dumb thing I did not associated with the bucket.
However, my nightmare that at times would go thru my head is this. After you're done brewing. In my case, I use 6 gal buckets. And taking the bucket with just created beer down to my basement to ferment. I have steps to go down. This is where I hear voices. "What if the handle brakes and the bucket goes down the steps?" Well guess what. **** happens, and it happened to a Pliney clone full of good green stuff.
Where the metal handle goes in the holes to lift the bucket broke on one side. I stared in disbelief as the bucket of beer went down 6 steps and when it got to my basement rug and landed, miraculously the lid did not come off. However, around the airlock and hole broke open about 1 inch wide and it went flying. About one gallon of the green nectar went on my rug. I damned near crapped my pants, but I got off light, considering if it all emptied out. I cleaned it up but had to use a fan for days to dry it out. Oxyclean got the stain out on top of the rug but I'm sure it's a sticky mess under it.
So, after chiding myself for being so stupid to trust that plastic where it meets the metal handle to support that weight, I will never put full trust in it. Of course, the age of bucket probably made it brittle possibly, but new or not it makes no sense moving bucket with in it without a secondary support if the handle fails.
I've yet to taste the beer that fell, hopefully it's ok. But this is beyond embarrassing.
I'll use a net to help lift buckets around as a backup until I find something better or maybe someone here uses something else.
Don't live this nightmare.
BTW-using new buckets now.
Make sure the beer is (ice) cold (like after cold crashing), before burst carbonating.Pressurize the keg to 30 psi, shake, repeat. After a few rounds of this let me just pull the PRV [...]
First time trying the burst carb method, I usually just set to serving pressure and wait 2 weeks.
Pressurize the keg to 30 psi, shake, repeat. After a few rounds of this let me just pull the PRV so I can set the keg back to serving pressure....
Don't do that.
As a plus, the PRV sends the beer shooting out horizontally, so there was no need to mop the ceiling this time.
Yeah, skip the bake part... nothing good comes from that.I'm reluctant to try the 'shake and bake' method of force carbing.
Just a note, that was more likely carbon dioxide burn. Same effect as getting soda up your nose....Proceed to get my nose too close to the opening and take a big whiff. Promptly feel hop burn clear out my nostrils and shoot straight into the back of my skull.
this is why i still bottlePut the second keg from the last batch of homebrewski on CO2 to carbonate using the 'set it and forget it' method, assuming that all the clamps and various keg connectors on the hoses are good and tight, only to return sometime later and discover each gauge on your regulator reading ZERO. Begin process of elimination and discover the hose clamp below the shutoff at the regulator is loose by several full turns with a screwdriver. Definitely..... DON'T DO THAT! Looks like it's off to the LHBS tomorrow for a tank refill.
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