Keg 'burper' Not Working

[Bribie G]

Just a quickie no panic or anything:

I don't have my kegerator yet but have 4 kegs and brewing in advance. Don't have gas, regs etc yet. I have a keg of Aus sparkling (2 weeks) and TTL (10 days). Put 90g sugar in each to prime. When I pull the Burper ring of the Aus sparkling I get a satisfying little hiss. With the TTL nothing. The lid is sitting nice and square with the same width of rubber showing all round however just to be sure I decided to loosen the lid and jiggle it around and reseat it in case that was leaking gas.

On releasing the hinged sliding metal lever device (whatever it's called) I found that the lid was tight as the fish's proverbial and obviously not going anywhere, so clearly good pressure in the keg. I'll just leave it and have a good look later when the keg has been drunk.

NO need to burp AFAIK because I didn't put much primings in however does this mean that the entire burp valve needs to be replaced? What's actually in there that can fail? I was going to dismantle one from the two currently empty kegs for a look-see but didn't want to destroy anything.

 

[Fents]

dont stress i've got a keg lid that i have to ram with 100kpa of gas to make the lid seal. just get another lid for it.

edit - any yea when i check my lid is seated it looks like it is but still have to ram gas into it to get a seal.

 

[Guest Lurker]

To find out whether the keg holds gas and the relief valve is blocked, or the keg does not hold gas and the lid is tight, depress the poppet (middle bit) on the gas in post. If no hiss, no gas.

 

[Bribie G]

Aha so that's what a poppet is, I'll go out now and give that a go.

...

Yup no gas. So I took off the lid (it was actually stuck on a bit and originally it had seemed very tight so I didn't go too hard because I didn't want to lose an eye). Sanitised a lid from another keg, replaced the big O ring (kits from Ross) and I've put that on in its place and see how that goes. Also put in a few sugaz cubes as well to get some CO2 going.

Thanks for the advice, if that doesn't gas up I'll take it that the keg 'lip' is the culprit and will try hitting it with a good gas pressure when I get the rest of the equipment. I'm still weak at the knees from the wonderful TTL aroma that wafted out of the keg :icon_drool2: So near and so far away :icon_cheers:

 

[Katherine]

Look forward to seeing your first poured beer from the keg BribieG.... :icon_cheers:

 

[Bribie G]

Look forward to seeing your first poured beer from the keg BribieG.... :icon_cheers:

I can assure you it will be in 'what's in the glass'

 

[buttersd70]

michael
sometimes the lids don't seal right unless it gets positive pressure in it to start....so even when nantural conditioning, I always give it a blast of gas to get the seal tight....if it's not tight to start with, then the luverly co2 your prime is giving off is just leaking out to the atmosphere...that might be the case. If so, don't fuss too much, the co2 produced will still be blanketing it, at least. When you get your gas source sorted, just give it a squeeze to knock it into place.

edit: beerfingas equalss poor spellink.

 

[Bribie G]

bump
gave the TTL keg with the swapped lid a teeny burp this morning. Got a nice little 'pffffttt' so I'll keep an eye on the original lid when I get round to using that on one of the other kegs.

Cheers