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what a horrible sound a keg makes as it gasps out its last pour. My first keg is officially gone.

Of course I didn't warn my wife about the horrible noise I made when I realized the pipeline was completely empty.

I need to brew again ASAP!

Kevin

ckd022 wrote:what a horrible sound a keg makes as it gasps out its last pour. My first keg is officially gone.

Sorry that's a sound no one can prepare a Homebrewer for. One must experience it for themselves.

ckd022 wrote:Of course I didn't warn my wife about the horrible noise I made when I realized the pipeline was completely empty.

I need to brew again ASAP!

Ouch! Rookie mistake there, sorry about that. My friends think I'm nuts (no additional comments needed ) when there are 20 pours left in a keg and I tell them it's time to brew something. Then I explain the 6-8 weeks for it to be ready, then they understand.

Hahaha, great post! That made me smile as I think everybody that kegs knows that sound and can relate.

Get to brewin' again, man!

It wasn't really a mistake, but a gamble I lost. I have three sets of ingredients to fill the three other empty kegs I have but I just ran out of time. With two kids graduating and moving them both (one back home and one out of the house) I just hoped the first keg would last longer. Boy the beer goes down good from your own tap!

And one of the brews is a Pliny Clone! I just noticed your avitar, Pliny would have my vote!

Yeah, I hate that sound. One thing I do is keep a tally of how many pints (more or less) I've drawn on each keg. I have a Dry-Erase calendar handy, and it helps me keep track of my brewing schedule. So I put a hash mark next to the name of the beer every time I draw one. It helps me know when a keg is almost ready to kick it, and it also lets me know how much I'm getting out of each batch.

The sound of a batch taking it's last breath is a sad realization of the cycle of life. I'm sorry for your loss.

You can see it coming. Every time you are pouring one and start thinking, "Damn, this beer is really coming around nice. It is really looking pretty"... The next pour will start spewing foam.

It is cruel that the last beer is always the best beer.

Pudge wrote:You can see it coming. Every time you are pouring one and start thinking, "Damn, this beer is really coming around nice. It is really looking pretty"... The next pour will start spewing foam.

It is cruel that the last beer is always the best beer.

Or you go to pour the first one of the evening and really is the style you want to drink, you get about 2 ozs of beer and done!

I just had the opposite brain fart was waiting on keg space for a cider, I finally kicked one of the 2.5 kegs and had the other 2.5 ready to go, back sweetend and kegged 4.5 gallons, took to the basement to purge w/CO2 and put into keezer and found a 5g keg that has been ready to go for weeks now Thats ok leaving the cider go a couple more weeks in the fermenter didn't hurt it.

It's even worse when a group of friends are sitting at your bar, you blow BOTH kegs and don't have a plan B.

I'm seriously considering buying cheap full size fridge to keep a couple kegs on stand by. That's an expensive Plan B but would make that awful sound just a reason to swap a keg.

Good grief, my wife is gonna kill me dead!

brewnewb wrote:Good grief, my wife is gonna kill me dead!

Does she drink your beer? You might be able to use that to your advantage.
Not the dead part, but more beer storage part.

Inkleg wrote: Does she drink your beer?

I wish - she's a border line wine snob. I can sneak in small purchases but a fridge would be kinda obvious.

It is actually 2 sounds. One the keg makes and then the guttural curse sound coming from the person getting the keg gurgle. I always know when the end is coming, The beer is the clearest it is ever gonna be.


A second fridge and co2 tank with regulator to be prepared for when you hear the sound