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Checking my FG on my ESB and IPA, and dry hopping the IPA for a couple days.
What are you doing with homebrew today?
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Think I may have a pop it leak. Of course nothing I can do with wort in The keg. Spunding valve isn’t showing any pressure build up but fermentation started late last night
If there's no pressure in the keg, why can't you take off the post and replace the poppet? Sanitize and lube all the parts and put it back together? You could cover the open post hole with sanitized foil if you're worried about it being exposed
Can anything fall into the beer?
You should be fine, it all comes out the top.
Possibly the lid didn’t set correctly. I’ll give a little. I put some co2. And it’s holding that. After this batch I’m definitely changing the pop its, still may this afternoon
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I had the same issue, when I pulled my QD off the post the oring for the poppet straight up came through the post. Think I might need to cut the poppet spring back some haha
Attacked by keg haha
Use a screwdriver to push in the poppet a little, it often reseals when released. Easy to try anyway. New poppet gets a smear of keg lube on the o-ring.
Indeed, a smear on the old poppet might do the trick.
Yup I have a gas post on one of my kegs that does this just depress the poppet again and usually it seals again.
Now if this don't work use a disconnect but just run some line but cap the line this will bypass the leaky poppet and use the post seal.
That's frickin genius Ben. Makes perfect sense but I'd never thought of it.
Cheers Don - i guess that's what you get running old beatup kegs that a older than me
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It’s actually holding, so probably my typical panic post brew. Lager yeast is slower, and pressure builds up slower. I will repeat this 100 times as penance.
@Sunfire96 new craft beer and brewing magazine is focused on stouts. There is an article on oyster stout
I don't subscribe to that one, hope it's a good read!
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My belgian ale should almost be ready for bottling, so need to start cleaning bottles.
Will be interesting to see how much less gunk I have at the bottom as it was the first time using a hop basket
Saison and cider will be ready in about a week.
Need to decide on the next brews, esp since I want to re-use the trub
Will be interesting to see how much less gunk I have at the bottom as it was the first time using a hop basket
Saison and cider will be ready in about a week.
Need to decide on the next brews, esp since I want to re-use the trub
Brewing “Wayward Tendencies” APA with mystery hop 1. Still don’t know what it is, by it smells okay, just gonna roll with it.
First time with the Briess Pale Ale base malt...efficiency was up from my usual 73% brewhouse to 78%. Might be that I ran the mill slower as it had been slipping lately.
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Watching the tilt graph fall from yesterday's brew. It'll definitely be beer, sitting around 1.016 now. I dry hopped it this morning instead of waiting to keg hop. We'll see if that makes a difference in the final beer
