I Am So Disappointed With First Ag

[Amber Fluid]

I was really enjoying a nice APA last night when I went for a refill and the keg blew!!!
I was so disappointed as I then had to refer back to the keg of K&K I have in atm.

It was amazing how I could really taste the huge difference between the 2 brews and I am now yearning for the next BIAB and resenting having to finish the crap that's left in the keg now.

It really felt like someone had punched me in the guts. I was guttered!!

 

[loikar]

I was really enjoying a nice APA last night when I went for a refill and the keg blew!!!
I was so disappointed as I then had to refer back to the keg of K&K I have in atm.

It was amazing how I could really taste the huge difference between the 2 brews and I am now yearning for the next BIAB and resenting having to finish the crap that's left in the keg now.

It really felt like someone had punched me in the guts. I was guttered!!

TROLL!!!
KILL IT!!.......KILL IT!!.........KILL IT!!
BURN IT LIKE WITCH!!


K&K is just as good as AG. Just ask any extract brewer!

BF

 

[argon]

your own fault for not brewing again... no sympathy

 

[kelbygreen]

brew tripples so when a keg blows you fill it straight back up again with a fermenter thats been sitting CC waiting for a empty keg then you tip the 3rd batch into the fermenter and start the next one. Oh and dont forget to brew when you got the last cube sitting there so you got another 3 to fall back on or so you can drink 2 different beers instead of 3 of the same in a row

 

[Tony]

I plan my brewing ahead.

I know roughly how long it takes to drink a keg and i make sure i have batches starting, and finnished conditioning ready to keg when one blows.

If im really organised i have one already filtered waiting to hit the gas.

and for when i dont...... there is always a carton of Coopers

 

[stux]

1 biab per week...

3 weeks to ferment and condition...

you need 2-3 fermenters running

ps: kegs finish even faster once your friends work out that your beer is awesome

 

[loikar]

3 taps
3 kegs in
3 fermenting
3 in the cubes waiting

 

[iralosavic]

Nooooooo! I'm just gearing up to keg my first brew and I hadn't contemplated it blowing. Couldn't you just depressurise the keg, change the seals (or transfer to another keg) and put it back on 15psi for another week?

 

[big78sam]

Nooooooo! I'm just gearing up to keg my first brew and I hadn't contemplated it blowing. Couldn't you just depressurise the keg, change the seals (or transfer to another keg) and put it back on 15psi for another week?

The keg 'blowing' means it runs out.

 

[iralosavic]

The keg 'blowing' means it runs out.

Oh! haha well no wonder no one is sympathetic. I only have 4 kegs to share between myself and my brewery assistant (co financier), so I will be bottling as a back up until I can double our keggery.

 

[Florian]

AF, if you don't like your k&k beer, tip it out, simple! Or give it to someone who likes it.

I've never quite understood why people force themselves to drink beer they don't like. Life's too short for crap beer.

Buy a 'bridge carton' or two and get brewing.

 

[jotaigna]

Bridge carton, what a good term.

AF, if you don't like your k&k beer, tip it out, simple! Or give it to someone who likes it.

I've never quite understood why people force themselves to drink beer they don't like. Life's too short for crap beer.

Buy a 'bridge carton' or two and get brewing.

 

[iralosavic]

Bridge carton, what a good term.

Is it us Victorians who are the weird ones for calling it a "slab" or you northerners for calling it a "carton"?

 

[Pennywise]

We always called em' slabs up in Sydney.

Love the term "bridge carton", I seem to be buying them more often than not :lol:

 

[stux]

I've used 5L bridge "flaggons" from Happy Goblin before

Just tipped it into a keg, and then I had a nice 5L demi-john

http://www.happygoblin.com.au/

I believe they do bridge kegs too

 

[Amber Fluid]

1 biab per week...

3 weeks to ferment and condition...

you need 2-3 fermenters running

ps: kegs finish even faster once your friends work out that your beer is awesome

I have just picked up a 2nd fridge (500L) and have all the bits now to build another temp controller. I can only fit 1 FV in my current fridge but coupled with the new one will give me 3 FV on the go.
I haven't time to brew once a week unfortunately. Doing BIAB in Urn and have a fair bit happening this time of the year coupled with a couple of toddlers.

Agreed that kegs finish faster when friends know you have nice beer. I didn't contemplate that previously.

3 taps
3 kegs in
3 fermenting
3 in the cubes waiting

I have 5 taps but just can't get enough kegs full to use until now as I can soon have 3 FV's on the go as mentioned above :icon_chickcheers:
I have 1 in a cube waiting at the moment and it will be going into the FV this weekend. It's my 2nd BIAB but it may take a little time to mature as I feel it is bittered more than I really wanted.

AF, if you don't like your k&k beer, tip it out, simple! Or give it to someone who likes it.

I've never quite understood why people force themselves to drink beer they don't like. Life's too short for crap beer.

Buy a 'bridge carton' or two and get brewing.

"Bridge Carton" I love the term. I don't like waste unless it is really bad so probably wont throw it out as it is drinkable but nowhere near as good as the "real" thing (as we all know). :icon_drunk:

Is it us Victorians who are the weird ones for calling it a "slab" or you northerners for calling it a "carton"?

We usually call them slabs in Tassie as well.

 

[Florian]

Might see if I can get the term integrated into the urban dictionary or something now that it's born and accepted... A variation of it for the southerners would obviously be 'bridge slab'.

 

[Spork]

Hey Bill - ditch the big FV and go for the 20 liter (hold about 22) Jerrycans. Perfect size for a cornie keg worth, and you will fit 2 into any fridge that fits a standard FV easy.

 

[Logman]

Might see if I can get the term integrated into the urban dictionary or something now that it's born and accepted... A variation of it for the southerners would obviously be 'bridge slab'.

Haha, in that case, I have a bridge carton of LCPA on the go atm.

After all the challenges of learning to AG, building the rig etc, keeping my kegs full is the hardest. You just have to keep brewing - every time I tell myself that I don't, it's like wooosh, and I'm down to two 1/2 empty kegs. :icon_drunk:

 

[whitegoose]

Is it us Victorians who are the weird ones for calling it a "slab" or you northerners for calling it a "carton"?

Over in WA I would say carton or case.... I would only say slab if I was putting on an over the top ocker accent.