The beer gods do not smile upon me today. After the whole black lager disaster I forged onward. I bought new serving lines for the beer as mentioned in the previous post. After trying out the first line I went back into the house to attempt to make a second, longer line. I must have had some type of beer leak in the keg and in the time it took to make a new line and get back to the fridge the entire keg had emptied into the chest freezer.
It was a surreal experience. I didn't even notice as first. I put the new line on and plunged the tap down and all I got was air. As first I thought that the new line had a leak because all I heard was air. But that didn't make sense. Even if I had a leak it would leak beer not air. I looked at the bottom and it was all white with beer head which didn't really register at first since the chest freezer is white anyway. Once I figured it out I was sad.
I told Ellie and she seemed to really be sad for me. Like the good trooper and wife that she is she snapped into action and began scooping the beer with a ladel from the bottom of the fridge into pitchers. I was so disheartened that I wanted to just dump it all but I glad she didn't let that happen.
Afterward we poured some into a growler for a crazy lazy who liked my shirt and Ellie drove off to deliver it while I poured some into a growler for a party tonight. We drank the rest. I then proceeded to clean up.
Lessons learned. Be sure there are no leaks when installing new beer lines.
Silver linings. Now I have a temp controlled fridge that has been freed up to lager the black lager.
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