Re: Fruity Fermentation
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 8:59 am
I don't remember having that problem.
My guess is when you pulled your sample some trub or a hunk of hops got into the tap and clogged it up.jpjpjp wrote: Any advice on why nothing is coming out the tap?
You might need to get a mini autosiphon and siphon it into another container (sanitize it first), then clean out your fermenter, disassemble your spigot and get it free running again, and then after sanitizing that again, siphon it back in to bottle it if you want to bottle from the spigot. (you can TRY to bottle from the autosiphon, but it's going to be not very much fun, I know, I've done it).
The good news is this will let you batch prime the beer if you want with dissolved sugar solution that you siphon on top of to get mixed in.
I know that sounds like a royal PITA, but if your spigot is clogged you have to siphon it out of there somehow without introducing a bunch of oxygen. I you just were to dump it out, the beer will go "off" much quicker due to oxidation.
A mini autosiphon or regular autosiphon is a useful tool to have around anyways.
FWIW, I've only had this every happen 2 times in like 10 years. But I do not pull samples from my tap, I only use it to bottle. (the only times I've had it happen was during bottling part way through).