TravelingLight
Well-Known Member
This is only my second kegged beer. Second homebrew, really, since I went straight to kegging. I just kegged this thing about two weeks ago. I've been burning through it so I wanted to bottle some to have in the fridge and give to a few people that have been wanting to try it. Hooked up the beer gun, bottled nine 12 oz bottles. Went fine. Now I currently only have like maybe 4 pints left in the keg.
Went to pour after I got everything hooked back up and pressurized and a quick shot came out then nothing. Popped off the ball lock on the liquid out and hop pellet debris everywhere. So I took off the liquid out post and the poppet and cleaned it all out real well, sprayed it down with starsan and popped it back on. Pressurized, pulled the tap handle, one drip then clogged again.
My next step, I believe, is to pull the whole dip tube out. I'm assuming that even though I cleaned out the keg post and the poppet, there was obviously more gunk in the tube that just shot back up into the keg post after I cleaned out the previous crap. Any other thoughts? Since there's seriously maybe only 4 pints left, and one or more may be all trubby-trub and hops, I'm considering hooking the beer gun back up and just bottling the rest.
P.S. One keg and one tap is NEVER enough. I can't believe I've burned through this beer so quickly. Already shopping for a freezer to build a keezer. Ahhhhhh want MOAR!
Went to pour after I got everything hooked back up and pressurized and a quick shot came out then nothing. Popped off the ball lock on the liquid out and hop pellet debris everywhere. So I took off the liquid out post and the poppet and cleaned it all out real well, sprayed it down with starsan and popped it back on. Pressurized, pulled the tap handle, one drip then clogged again.
My next step, I believe, is to pull the whole dip tube out. I'm assuming that even though I cleaned out the keg post and the poppet, there was obviously more gunk in the tube that just shot back up into the keg post after I cleaned out the previous crap. Any other thoughts? Since there's seriously maybe only 4 pints left, and one or more may be all trubby-trub and hops, I'm considering hooking the beer gun back up and just bottling the rest.
P.S. One keg and one tap is NEVER enough. I can't believe I've burned through this beer so quickly. Already shopping for a freezer to build a keezer. Ahhhhhh want MOAR!