Note to self...

[Orkney_Rob]

Make sure the barrel tap is turned OFF before filling, priming and sealing.

I thought that my office had a wiff of beer about it in the very early hours of this morning following last nights barrelling - which went smooth as a smooth thing thanks to my new brewing cupboard design (a 35mm hole bored through a wooden shelf - the fermenting bin sits ontop of the shelf with the siphon hose attached to it's tap and straight down into the barrel below). I opened the door to discover probably a pint of two of beer puddled below the tap! The problem was the on off diagram on the tap was something like this:

Off<---->On

So I figured that it turned clockwise to turn off, but no, it's anticlockwise. At least I know it was fermenting the sugar off fine!!!! Shut it all off, and went to bed - this morning I decided to check that the tap was okay and the secondary fermentation was working - small glass under the tap and turned it on - wooosh - beer came out at some rate! Nice head, cloudy as the sky - but hey - it has at least a couple of weeks to sit and clear before any real sampling!

Tastes okay mind (what - couldn't let more beer go to waste!) if a bit on the watery side!

[stevezx7r]

Accidents happen, at least you had a real reason to "sample" your delights in the making.

[bitter_dave]

I've never the learnt the art of checking a tap before I fill a fermenting bin, boiler or mash tun with liquid stroke beer

[fivetide]

I get my drum taps on the KK's wrong all the time, sometimes mid-pint!

I'll be coming to the end of pouring, try and turn off the tap and instead let off a highly charged blast of beer and foam into a glass with no space. Great! Can't wait to start using idiot proof flow taps on Cornies!

[Orkney_Rob]

Makes me feel better that I am not alone!

The beer was crystal clear before the transfer so I scooped a wee bit of yeast out to mix in, can't believe how cloudy it is now!!! Still, if it settles as quickly this time as it did last it should be clear by tea time

[Jim]

Well, I only did it once with beer - the shock of losing wort cured my memory afterwards.

I still do it while I'm rinsing out or sterilising, though.

[chopperswookie]

did that with my very first when i kegged it. first pour had yeast and everything in the tap!!