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It worked perfectly with the new lines!!! Thanks everyone!!!!

Got the new lines and cut them to just under 8′ each. Got everything installed and will have a pint this afternoon! Here’s hoping!

If dry hopping pressurize the dome and burp 10-12 times to push out O2. Conduct a pressurized transfer, fill keg with star san and push out with CO2.

Run hot water over it and it’ll free up. Then I’d disassemble the faucet and scrub it out with a brush. Make sure you’re cleaning your lines properly too

Don’t do secondary fermentation! It’s not helpful on a homebrewing scale and you oxidize way too much for it to be worth it.

I went down this rabbit hole once. Then I discovered that I was over thinking things. Have you ACTUALLY found that your beer is getting oxidized? I’ve never detected oxidation in my beers when using “normal” methods for brewing/fermentation/cold crashing/kegging.
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Closed transfers and purge keg with co2. I’m still using glass fermenters mostly, but I’ve got a racking cane setup for closed transfers. For purging with Co2, I either use my 20lb tanks for my keezers or I use one of these little ones because they’re convenient: https://amzn.to/2ElSfPs

I don’t use mine. I use a picnic tap for this reason. I simply don’t drink my beer fast enough to keep the tap from drying up every time. Knowing what I know now. I would never run this setup. To much BS

I add a solid hit of honey any time I open the fermenter or transfer, in order to restart fermentation and get a CO2 blanket. Not sure if it actually helps, but it eases my oxygenation worries.

Pressure Ferment, purged dry hop additions and fully closed transfer with Co2…

The cheap style faucets are always open will get stuck closed after only a few days of non use. Time to upgrade to the forward sealing type like Perlick.

Yep, they’re just dirty . The sugars in the beer gum everything up as the beer dries in the faucet. Each time I change the keg I take my tap apart and clean it really well. You can also have a keg with some keg cleaner or PBW or starsan and run it through the lines and faucets with co2.

Try these, too – faucet covers really help reduce this problem:

seconded on the big mouth bubbler – definitely my favorite cheap entry-level fermenter. The siphonless valve is a game changer – you’ll never want to siphon again

I have fermented in food grade plastic buckets from box stores before and it works ok but you’ll only get about 4.5 gallons. Also, fun tip – the paint lids with the pop our pour spout work perfectly – remove the cap and pop up the spout and it fits a carboy bung with an airlock PERFECTLY. It worked pretty great.

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a little money and a gallon and a half lol