Advice needed - crap keg

[PaulStat]

This'll teach me for not testing second hand equipment before filling with beer! Anyway I primed a budget barrel yesterday and then filled it to just over half way and filled it with two 8gm CO2 bulbs. A few hours later after checking there was a nice big damp patch of beer on my carpet! It had been seaping out of the seem to the tap.

The tap and cap are new, tap screwed in as tight as it will go. I did release a lot of the pressure which seemed to stop it seeping from the tap, however, my Mrs checked it for me before she left for work and apparently there's a new patch of beer underneath it now (I put it in the sink just in case this time). I'm not really sure where it could be leaking from this time.

Anyway It's probably best by the sounds of things if I transfer to a new vessel, but how shall I go about doing this seeing as I've already primed it once?.

[umpa]

well if I were you I would put it into a new barrel & inject co2 befor and after filling and leave it for a week or so.

Ump.

[PaulStat]

well if I were you I would put it into a new barrel & inject co2 befor and after filling and leave it for a week or so.

Ump.

Sorry if I'm being thick but how would I fill it with CO2 before I transferred the beer!

[PaulStat]

Ok well I managed to get hold of a new and used one this afternoon, i'm about to siphon off into the new one.

My main question is, do I need to re-prime?

[umpa]

No - I would not..

I would fit a cap with a s30 valve, and squirt some co2 in the barrel, fill with beer - fit the cap and pressurise it with more co2.

If you dont have Co2 kit - then it depends on how long its been since you primed it. Last thing a real ale needs is a shed load of fizz

[alefric]

No - I would not..

I would fit a cap with a s30 valve, and squirt some co2 in the barrel, fill with beer - fit the cap and pressurise it with more co2.

If you dont have Co2 kit - then it depends on how long its been since you primed it. Last thing a real ale needs is a shed load of fizz

Not sure how you can squirt in gas and then fill with beer!! must be a new trick........Why are you adding gas when you have just primed?.......sounds like you have over pressurised your barrel.....no need to reprime but make sure your seals are vaselined and place in the warm for 7 days and the priming sugar will produce it's own CO2,then into the cool to condition.......BTW which keg did you buy?

Andrew

[Parva]

No - I would not..

I would fit a cap with a s30 valve, and squirt some co2 in the barrel, fill with beer - fit the cap and pressurise it with more co2.

If you dont have Co2 kit - then it depends on how long its been since you primed it. Last thing a real ale needs is a shed load of fizz

Not sure how you can squirt in gas and then fill with beer!! must be a new trick........Why are you adding gas when you have just primed?.......sounds like you have over pressurised your barrel.....no need to reprime but make sure your seals are vaselined and place in the warm for 7 days and the priming sugar will produce it's own CO2,then into the cool to condition.......BTW which keg did you buy?

Andrew

What umpa is trying to get across is that it's generally safer to rack beer into a keg that has been pre-filled with CO2 rather than one that hasn't, much less chance of oxidising the beer. He's not suggesting that the keg be pressurised and beer somehow forced in, just that pressuring first with CO2 is a safer enviroment to transfer the beer into as CO2 is heavier than air and will generally sit at the bottom of the keg helping prevent oxidisation.

[alefric]

Never tried that so it's a new trick for me!

Cheers Parva