What are you doing with homebrew today?

Not much doing today
Dry hopped an IPA at high krausen
Didn't take a gravity reading. Don't really care it just started to drop. Going away for a few days it should be done when I get back. Might reuse the cake
 
Today I bottled a 1/2 gallon of kombucha, got my Brewzilla filled with RO for brew day (had to postpone it though), racked 12 gallons of wine, and mixed up some rhubarb shrub for my fizzy water. Didn’t actually do anything with beer, though- except currently drinking it!
 
Closed off my spunding valve yesterday. Pressure stopped, temp dropped a few and tilt said 1.011. So time to sit a few days and I’ll cold crash this weekend.
 
Man, this latest batch of beer is really kicking my ass. First the spigot on my new fermenter leaked, then today I tried to keg my beer for the first time and once I got it in the cleaned and sanitized keg, I hit it with C02, and there was an audible leak coming from the pressure release valve. I tried using the C02 to give it a nice seal but no matter how I configured the cap, there was a leaking sound coming from the PRV. I was thinking of transferring it to my other keg, which is very dirty, but I couldn't get the posts off of that, so I just called it a day.

Now I have a bunch of beer sitting in a keg in my fridge without carbonation. I guess I'll grab another keg tomorrow and transfer, or maybe I will try to naturally carbonate it with sugar, but idk. It's sitting at like 40 F right now. I think I'd have to crank the heat up for a day, so might as well get a keg that works. Plus, I took it off the yeast cake around day 5 because of the spigot leak.

Anyways, the sample is tasting good, so I am optimistic but sweaty and tired.
 
German Pils, my first pressure fermentation
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Man, this latest batch of beer is really kicking my ass. First the spigot on my new fermenter leaked, then today I tried to keg my beer for the first time and once I got it in the cleaned and sanitized keg, I hit it with C02, and there was an audible leak coming from the pressure release valve. I tried using the C02 to give it a nice seal but no matter how I configured the cap, there was a leaking sound coming from the PRV. I was thinking of transferring it to my other keg, which is very dirty, but I couldn't get the posts off of that, so I just called it a day.

Now I have a bunch of beer sitting in a keg in my fridge without carbonation. I guess I'll grab another keg tomorrow and transfer, or maybe I will try to naturally carbonate it with sugar, but idk. It's sitting at like 40 F right now. I think I'd have to crank the heat up for a day, so might as well get a keg that works. Plus, I took it off the yeast cake around day 5 because of the spigot leak.

Anyways, the sample is tasting good, so I am optimistic but sweaty and tired.
Can you remove the prv and clean?
Or maybe you are using too high CO2 pressure for the type of prv?
I'm sure you though about it, but hey, maybe not
 

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