Docod44
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Hi all, not really a question I just need somewhere to vent because my wife doesn't care or understand. I brewed an oatmeal stout () last weekend and had a perfect brew day where nothing went wrong (I should have seen this as a red flag!). I ferment in a corny keg and use a floating dip tube to transfer to a purged and sanitized serving keg. Samples were delicious, roasty and chocolate and I was really excited to get it carbed and chilled. I noticed my CO2 tank was near empty but I decided to risk it and hoped I had enough CO2 to do my transfer. I attached a spunding valve set to 2psi on the serving keg (ferm keg was already at 6psi which I added at the end of fermentation) and daisy chained the two and the transfer started flawlessly. I noticed it slowing down a bit so I re-carbed the fermentation keg to 6 psi and then shut off the regulator to try and use as little co2 as possible. My CO2 tank eventually kicked (it was at room temp and completely empty which I verified by weight) and I was only halfway through the transfer, so I hooked up a gas daisy chain from another kegged beer and used its co2 to try and finish my transfer. I noticed that it was still taking forever so I finally popped the lid on my serving keg and realized that I had accidentally swapped the two in my mess of lines and re-transferred everything back into the fermentation keg! I should have retrieved my tilt and just served from there, but no, I decided to just dump the beer into the serving keg using good old gravity, totally exposed to oxygen. I cold crashed it but didn't even have co2 to purge and pressurize the keg. What I learned:
- Always have a spare full co2 tank
- Don't do anything brewing related the day before leaving for vacation (I couldn't run out to refill my co2 tank, no time)
- If everything is going perfect with a brew, the thing that will go wrong hasn't happened yet
- RDWHAHB
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