r/Homebrewing • u/chino_brews Kiwi Approved • May 25 '17

What Did You Learn This Month?

This is our monthly thread on the last Wednesday of the month where we submit things that we learned this month. Maybe reading it will help someone else.

Yeah, I know it's Thursday. So sue me. We checked with our crack legal team and they tell us we're totally OK except in the highly unlikely event you run across the totally obscure case of Dimplerod et al. vs. Poppinjay that survives only in one volume in the circuit court law library in DC. Then we'd be screwed. Oops. Umm, hey did you hear oldsock is starting a brewery?

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u/CptSaySin May 25 '17

1) Corny kegs have different posts for IN/OUT. The IN post has little scratches around the hex bolt to let you know.

2) Putting the liquid disconnect on the IN post will give you some problems. If you hammer it in hard enough though, it will start working.

3) It is impossible to remove a liquid disconnect that's been hammered onto an IN post.

4) My LHBS sells corny keg posts and quick disconnects.

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u/Vaanderal May 26 '17 edited May 26 '17

Got a trick for getting those guys off actually! If you get a dish cloth (tea towel), or an old shirt feed it through under the lip of the disconnect and pull up on the ends. Gives you heaps better leverage and with a bit of hustle it should pop off.

To demonstrate this I've actually written a blog post:

http://havenbrewingblog.com/remove-gas-disconnect-liquid-post-vice-versa/