What are you doing with homebrew today?

[Brew Cat]

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

 

[Yooper]

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!

 

[Josh Hughes]

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.

 

[Prairie Dog]

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.

 

[Dave Y]

German Pils, my first pressure fermentation

 

[Zambi]

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

 

[Brew Cat]

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.

Well it's in the keg and purged of O2 so it's safe from oxidation. Just order a couple new lids. Father's day sales going on now.

 

[Josh Hughes]

Put my fermzilla in the fridge to cold crash. I’ll keg in A few days.

 

[Prairie Dog]

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

I had the regulator set to about 12, so I can’t imagine that was the issue. I just tried another corny lid and had the same problem. C02 blowing out of the PRV. Not sure what is going on as this is the first time I have kegged.

 

[Brew Cat]

I had the regulator set to about 12, so I can’t imagine that was the issue. I just tried another corny lid and had the same problem. C02 blowing out of the PRV. Not sure what is going on as this is the first time I have kegged.

Now that's curious. Is it the ring top PRV ? If you pull them up and give a half turn the lock open. Try pulling up and half turn left
Just guessing

 

[Prairie Dog]

Now that's curious. Is it the ring top PRV ? If you pull them up and give a half turn the lock open. Try pulling up and half turn left
Just guessing

Yes, they both have ring tops. I will give that a try.

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

Now that's curious. Is it the ring top PRV ? If you pull them up and give a half turn the lock open. Try pulling up and half turn left
Just guessing

My advice was going to be similar, and that would be to make sure the PRV is screwed in tight. I had this problem the last time I kegged. Audible leak around PRV. It wasn't in the open position so I rotated it clockwise and the leak stopped.

 

[Josh Hughes]

Kegged my Dunkel. I also replaced my float dip tube in the fermzilla with a float it 2.0. We’ll see.

 

[Beerbelly]

Fermenting a Dunkelweizen with yeast from a previous wheat brew:

 

[Sunfire96]

Kegged my Dunkel. I also replaced my float dip tube in the fermzilla with a float it 2.0. We’ll see.

I switched my fermenting kegs to Float Its a few months ago. Seem to be working better than the generic Amazon ones I had before

 

[Josh Hughes]

I switched my fermenting kegs to Float Its a few months ago. Seem to be working better than the generic Amazon ones I had before

Good to know.

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

I switched my fermenting kegs to Float Its a few months ago. Seem to be working better than the generic Amazon ones I had before

I just ordered 2 more FLOTit 2.0 taps so now all kegs will have them. It was cheapest ordering directly from HomeBrewerLab.com ($25 each + $4.75 shipping).