B*gger !

[neal]

drawing of a sample of wheat beer from my fv this morning to test the gravity as it's nearly done and I noticed a drip from the tap, without really thinking I twisted it, I suppose in an effort to stop the drip but made it worse ( why do I have to fiddle with things !!) had to do an emergency sterilisation of a spare bucket and transferred the lot over as I didn't want to come home to 23 ltrs of beer on the garage floor! I shall keep my eye on the gravity over the next couple of days to see if it's finished and then hopefully bottle it up, fingers crossed the brew hasn't suffered much. I'll need to cream up that nut on the tap to stop it happening again, prefer the other bucket anyway, going to have to keep this one as my bottling bucket from now on !! lessons are learnt through experience as they say :lol:

 

[Covrich]

It will be fine

on one of my first ever AG brews when I transferred to bottling bucket I noticed teh tap was a little loose and leaking.. I sanitised my arm and in I went!!

 

[geetee]

I am forever dipping glasses in to take samples ( filled with boiled water first) and have been known to poke a finger or two in to take out a bag of dry hops and squeeze them.
Beer is more resilient than you think, (they had no idea about bugs in the middle ages) but best not take too many liberties or the bugs will catch you out eventually!

 

[Robin54]

it will be fine

on one of my first ever ag brews when i transferred to bottling bucket i noticed teh tap was a little loose and leaking.. I sanitised my arm and in i went!!

dive , dive dive...

 

[neal]

altered the shelf in the fridge to stop any chance of knocking the taps again, pretty sure that may have contributed to it coming loose

 

[Slid]

Attaching the tap on an angle, so that it will fit on the shelf without touching could be an option. If you bottle from the FV via the tap into the bottles, it actually makes it much easier to get a pour that avoids too much froth.

And you can turn the FV in the fridge or wherever else so that the tap won't get knocked too easily.

I had two knocking disasters with the Coopers FV, as the tap needs to be secured in with a notch that didn't quite reach. Very distressing having to clear up 2-3L of beer from an upstairs bedroom. Hence Coopers FV being retired now.

 

[neal]

yes the other tap has always been at an angle and because its much larger than this one pictured it's still to close for comfort and because of the size I've had to heat up the silicon pipe to get over the end, a short length is semi permanently attatched with a zip tie! this cut out on the shelf should do the trick, I still intend keeping this bucket from Bigger Buckets as my primary as it seems to be better quality overall and the lid fits real tight. The brew must be ok I'm still seeing some airlock activity, it is sitting at 1.010 at the moment so I'll see how it goes :thumb:

 

[Bigcol49]

Hi!
The tap on my bottling bucket turns within its body - I can tighten the body onto the bucket to get a decent seal, then turn the tap so that it doesn't touch the work surface.
Colin