Ever feel that the beer Gods have it in for you?

[keith1664]

Thursday night one of the kegerator taps decides to spring a leak and dumps a full keg of beer on the garage floor, it then dumped a 3 week old bottle of gas to atmosphere.
Tonight I'm prepping a starter for a wheat beer and there's an ominous crack and fizzing noise from my conical. I turned off the gas and picked it up..... and the bottom fell out.

I'm wondering if brewing this week is a good idea? :electric:

 

[LeeH]

I'd take the rest of the week ok mate. Go cut the grass or something...

 

[ECLIPSE]

Bad luck mate! At least it was the garage floor rather than in the house!

What sort of tap was it if you don't mind me asking? And which part failed?

 

[keith1664]

Bad luck mate! At least it was the garage floor rather than in the house!

What sort of tap was it if you don't mind me asking? And which part failed?

A Perlick 525, I think they're due a strip down, good clean and some new seals.

 

[Jimmy321]

Perhaps give it a week or so to let the demons pass!

Tonight I'm prepping a starter for a wheat beer and there's an ominous crack and fizzing noise from my conical. I turned off the gas and picked it up..... and the bottom fell out.

Is this from a reliable source? I got one from Ebay and after close inspection I decided not to use it as it's obv a reject, I bought another from a lab company for about £20-30 but I'm still weary when it's on the gas cooker.

 

[keith1664]

Conical was from an eBay lab supplies company

 

[Jimmy321]

Hmmm. I'm going to visually check my flask every time I use it 2L of boiling wort could be quite dangerous.