King keg top tap

[petehoar]

Well I got all excited to pour my first pint out of my new king keg and guess wot happened nothing nothing at all. Opened the tap and nothing came out it was all sealed ok checked all the washers before tightening it up but it hasn't presurrised, its been in there four wks now hope it's not gone to waste HELP ANYONE PLEASE.........?..

[Troutman47]

I was always told to put some Vaseline on the o ring in the cap, did you do that?

I take it you've put priming sugar in?

[petehoar]

Thank you for the reply , no I didn't put vaseline around it but I did prime. Is it to late for this beer or can it be save (fingers crossed). Could I vas it up now and get some co2 into it and leave it. Will it be ok ????????

[Troutman47]

Would be interested in others views, I gave up kegging years ago and prefer to bottle.
It might work, vassing up and adding some gas but I'm wondering if it may have oxidised!

[lord groan]

Can't imagine you've lost the brew, I've had this problem from time to time and always managed to rescue it. Put some more sugar in to re-condition, stick vaseline on the 'o'ring, give the cap a thorough once-over, the seals may be squeezed out between cap and valve, or perished - I always smear vaseline around the valve on the inside of the cap so for any leaks the CO2 will push the goo into the gaps. also check the rubbers on the pressure valve itself.

[petehoar]

Thank you

[catbeerglar]

Does the keg actually have CO2 in it - maybe too much?

It seems odd but I only recently got into a kegging system and after keg priming and gassing up, I connected everything up and no beer was coming out - panic stations!!!

So tried a few things which included bleeding the keg via the PRV and eventually got a nice pour coming out. My theory on this is that there was too much pressure in the keg so that the spring in the John Guest beer disconnect was not strong enough to actually push in the poppet in the keg post.

I had the same problem again tonight with another keg primed keg so let all the CO2 out via PRV and regassed with the regulator set to about 70kPa to get a pour going. Beer was pretty frothy though, probably due to being over gassed.

Is this something most keggers know about? Don;t recall reading about anything like this previously.

[Rick_UK]

Beer should be fine; people regularly leave beer fermenting for 3+ weeks without issue so long as you didn't shake it about everywhere after or during kegging.

Its probably a leak as already stated. I woud give it a squirt of CO2 and spray soapy water around the cap and valve and tap and look for bubbles denoting a leak. If there are none it could be a problem with your flotation device or the tube connecting this to the tap. If this is the case, wash yr hands in mild bleach open the keg, fish and fumble around to get it reconnected then re-pressurise (done this many times!)

I got fed up with problems with the floatation system on my KKTT so I sealed the tap hole and converted it to a bottom tap by drilling a new hole nearer the bottom. Never had a problem since.

Wheeler describes top tap kegs as 'an abberation' and I agree with him!

Rick

[petehoar]

Thanks all....