Corny Keg Idiots guide needed please.

[Pete7811]

Morning all, so I took the plunge and bought myself 2 corny kegs, Nukka tower taps x2, co2 canister and set it all up however I cannot get the beer to flow out of the tap. The beer is gassed and the connectors are on the right ends but only drops come out of the taps.

Could someone please help to provide a step by step idiots guide to the process.

Thanks

 

[Leon103]

Have you tried increase pressure from the keg?

 

[chillipickle]

Have you set your serving pressure on the regulator?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Are you sure you've connected the beer line to the correct post I.e. the one with the long tube.

 

[Pete7811]

Are you sure you've connected the beer line to the correct post I.e. the one with the long tube.

Yeah I've even put controlled lines in to give the right pour... Turns out I don't get a pour

 

[Pete7811]

Have you tried increase pressure from the keg?

I've tried it at 20psi, 10psi and even 5psi and still doing give a flow. The cider I did pours but when I don't have the co2 connected to it

 

[Pete7811]

Have you set your serving pressure on the regulator?

This is what a followed and still get nothing. I have the line set up the same also.

 

[trevorS]

If you have pressure in the keg and all the pipework connected properly the liquid has to come out.

Check the liquid connector on the keg is properly attached sometimes you have to really press them to make sure they are home!
after that you have to open the pipework at different joints to check for a restriction!

Hope this helps!

 

[Pete7811]

If you have pressure in the keg and all the pipework connected properly the liquid has to come out.

Check the liquid connector on the keg is properly attached sometimes you have to really press them to make sure they are home!
after that you have to open the pipework at different joints to check for a restriction!

Hope this helps!

I can see the beer in the pipes but it just doesn't dispense. Doing my head in.

 

[trevorS]

Disconnect the pipe from the tap and see if you get liquid then!

 

[scomet]

Blocked keg!? have a read thro' these threads on AHB, its a common problem

https://aussiehomebrewer.com/search/461394/?q=blocked+keg&o=relevance
If you haven't blocked the poppet on the keg with cleaner or hops my bets on taps assembled incorrectly, best to do a wet run with water.....

 

[Pete7811]

Disconnect the pipe from the tap and see if you get liquid then!

I'll give that a go, thanks

 

[Pete7811]

Blocked keg!? have a read thro' these threads on AHB, its a common problem

https://aussiehomebrewer.com/search/461394/?q=blocked+keg&o=relevance
If you haven't blocked the poppet on the keg with cleaner or hops my bets on taps assembled incorrectly, best to do a wet run with water.....

I was thinking it might be a blocked keg, it's the 1st time I've dry hopped.

 

[obscure]

I was thinking it might be a blocked keg, it's the 1st time I've dry hopped.

You may well have a blocked keg then, I had exactly the same issue a few weeks ago, dry hopped my beer and transferred straight from the fermentor to the keg. Eventually I removed the post and found it full of hop derbies.

I ended up opening the keg and using a siphon with a mesh filter at the end to decant into a fresh keg, the bottom of the old keg had a fairly thick layer of green sludge from the hop pellets. Should probably say this was a pretty drastic approach but I seemed to have avoided ending up with oxidised beer.

 

[eyuptm]

I dry hop in my Cornies, but put the hops in big stainless tea/hop strainers... Cheap from China (AliExpress) and no more hop debris in beer, poppets, taps etc...