National Homebrew Club Ireland

I learnt an expensive lesson tonight and feel I should share my pain with those getting into kegging. My setup has been running perfectly for the past few months. But on Sunday I decided to add an extra line and when finished checked none of the John guest connections inside the freezer were leaking....The mistake I made was not checking the connections outside the freezer too. Tonight I found an empty gas tank beside the freezer where the line to my regulator has moved just a fraction and leaked gas.

So lesson learnt is if I/you are making and big changes to you keggerator. Double check all your lines afterwards no matter how well they "were" working before hand.

Always good to have a back up canister, just in case of emergencies, which can be quite regular in my shed :P

Yeah, thankfully I have a backup. Just feel stupid I didn't recheck all connections.

A simple mistake cost me half a tank of mixed gas!

Ooooh mixed gas, I feel your pain. I just presumed it was plain Jane C02.

Been there done that, turned off now every time and a quick spray of starsan around connections shows small leaks

All because I couldn't help faffing around with a perfectly working system

Ah that's part of the fun, don't let that stop you!

Yeh I turn it off at night too. I finished my keezer early December last year and ran out of gas on Christmas Eve. It was a long wait to get more gas! I have refilled it since

Yup ditto. Only have gas on for serving and when carbing. I have 5 kegs connected in a Chain, so if there is a leak, there is a lot of flat beer!

Do ye find that if ye only have the gas on for the initial carbing and serving does the beer go flat quickly, or would that take ages with a head of pressure in the keg? Would you have to top it up now and again?

Other thing to be wary of leaving a Co2 cannister connected on is that its heavier than air and in an enclosed space can be lethal.

Shanna

Quote from: braich on October 13, 2016, 04:57:03 PM
Do ye find that if ye only have the gas on for the initial carbing and serving does the beer go flat quickly, or would that take ages with a head of pressure in the keg? Would you have to top it up now and again?

Only if theres a leak in the keg, otherwise a keg will stay pressurised until you release it.

I'll have to re think my keggerator. It's in the attic above the back porch with an insulated beer line run. The beer taps are beside the sink. Maybe I can fit a tank under the sink and run a long gas line back up hmmmm more faffing...