Dry hopping in the keg, part two
What an absolute utter failure to get a seal. One would think size five tippet material was thin enough to suspend through the seal of the keg and maintain a pressure but nope. Since I was lacking in time and didn’t have the energy (or remaining nap time) to fiddle with it any more I just cut the string and dropped it into the keg.
What I think would have helped greatly was re-lubing the O-ring with a liberal coat of Keg Lube. Unfortunately I don’t know where my tub of that is and like I mentioned I just didn’t have the time left to do it right. Its supposed to work the first time!
To top off the woes of the kegging experience this time around, something is bunk with my regulator and I can’t get pressure out of one side of the wye. I haven’t used it in a long time since I’ve had that stout on tap with the beer gas mix, and again I didn’t have the time to investigate fully.
The last straw of course was the dead kegerator.
For sale: Complete Homebrewing Kit, kegs, carboys, plastic buckets, cylinders, tower, faucets including stout faucet, brew kettles…
No, no, just kidding!
Cheers!
I’m new to kegging, but already have 7 going right now. Haven’t keg hopped yet, but will soon. I will probably write about my first idea, because it should work out pretty good.
I too would like the option of taking out hops at any given time, or exchanging them for more or a different varietal. I’ll be drilling a very small hole towards the very end of the line-in short dip tube (if it’s too short, a long dip tube could be cut to the right length). Then fill a large tea infuser ball with hops and hook it in the hole. The length of the chain could be lengthened if the volume of beer is expected to drop very quickly and very soon. I figure other tight mesh bags could be hooked/tied on for pellet hops.
That’s it. Pretty simple. Let me know what you think.
April 21st, 2008 at 9:57 pm
NICE! Simple, easy and not breaching the seal of the keg. Good thinking! I like the idea of switching out varieties. I’m holding out to build a Randall though. There were instructions in BYO a couple years ago…
April 21st, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Randall’s are pretty cool. I saw one once at a beer fest that a homebrew club was using. It was MASSIVE. I suppose if you knew the whole keg would go at one party, it might be nice and impressive. I have an idea for a miniature version that simply connects midway down the line-out hose. It would add flavor for dispensing about a gallon or so. It would be about 5-10 inches long and not very large in diameter. I figure a couple mesh filters at each end would keep junk from getting into the glass, and hopefully it wouldn’t plug and stop the flow. I’d like to try filling it with spices, herbs, hops, rinds, or all of this stuff. I hope to get around to posting about this soon too. So many new things to try. You know, as I write this, I’m already thinking of some new designs…more of a real/cask ale sort of thing.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:35 pm