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I feel I have been posting lots of questions lately, my apologies but I have another.

The flow from my keg is really low. I have lots of CO2 (thanks Andy) and although the stout may not be fully carbed, it is almost there. However, I am only getting a trickle out the tap. I tried switching over to a picnic tap, but still a trickle. Could the straw be clogged? The stout aged for months before putting in the keg, I can't imagine there would have been anything to plug up the straw. Any thoughts?

G

This place was made for asking questions Your dip tube could be clogged, try taking your gas and connecting it to the liquid out. This will force whatever is in the dip tube back into the keg. The connection will be harder than normal to get on and off as it is different.

What have you got your regulator set to? And if you pop the poppit on your keg, you've got lots of CO2 escaping, right? Have you tried checking the flow out of the gas-in quick disconnect? Just to be sure it's delivering what it says it is.
If all of that seems OK, maybe try shaking the heck out of it , in case something has lodged in the bottom. Not sure if you have Ball Lock or Pin Lock, but you could hook the gas-in to the beer-out side for a second to hopefully dislodge anything in there. Don't actually hook it in, just push it down enough to get the gas flowing. They can be a pain to undo again.

It may be out of balance? ie: beer line too long or PSI too low.

How many PSI is your regulator set to? What is the inner diameter of your beer line? How long is the beer line from your keg to your tap? What is the approximate elevation from your keg to your tap?

LD is a faster typed than me.

chalmers wrote:LD is a faster typed than me.

and you're both faster than me!

PSI is at 20, because I was force carbing. My line is 4' and 5' for the two taps. I have pin locks and cant seem to get the gas to fit on the output.

reverse gas worked! thanks... it was a bit of a bitch but it works.

LiverDance wrote:Your dip tube could be clogged, try taking your gas and connecting it to the liquid out. The connection will be harder than normal to get on and off as it is different.

This is another good argument for MFL connections.

KMcK wrote:

LiverDance wrote:Your dip tube could be clogged, try taking your gas and connecting it to the liquid out. The connection will be harder than normal to get on and off as it is different.

This is another good argument for MFL connections.

could also hook up a gas line to a liquid disconnect to work in a pinch.

chalmers wrote:...you could hook the gas-in to the beer-out side for a second to hopefully dislodge anything in there. Don't actually hook it in, just push it down enough to get the gas flowing. They can be a pain to undo again.

Oh thanks! That information came a week too late... It wasn't _too_ hard, but it was definitely harder than I had expected, because I hadn't realized the connections were different. At least on the coke kegs they're visibly different.

derek wrote:

chalmers wrote:...you could hook the gas-in to the beer-out side for a second to hopefully dislodge anything in there. Don't actually hook it in, just push it down enough to get the gas flowing. They can be a pain to undo again.

Oh thanks! That information came a week too late... It wasn't _too_ hard, but it was definitely harder than I had expected, because I hadn't realized the connections were different. At least on the coke kegs they're visibly different.

I have an old thread on here about reversing them. It was a head scratcher that first time. My industry seriously frowns upon a lack of visible distinction. It's just asking for trouble.

benwedge wrote:

derek wrote:

chalmers wrote:...you could hook the gas-in to the beer-out side for a second to hopefully dislodge anything in there. Don't actually hook it in, just push it down enough to get the gas flowing. They can be a pain to undo again.

Oh thanks! That information came a week too late... It wasn't _too_ hard, but it was definitely harder than I had expected, because I hadn't realized the connections were different. At least on the coke kegs they're visibly different.

I have an old thread on here about reversing them. It was a head scratcher that first time. My industry seriously frowns upon a lack of visible distinction. It's just asking for trouble.

LOL. All my Pepsi kegs have a steel flange around the base of the gas-in post that isn't on the liquid-out post. No doubt somebody considered that was "visible distinction". I guess they figured that nobody who was pumping out Pepsi would possibly be slightly impaired...

Once I get my clammy hands on a keg, I swap the visible o-rings: Red means gas in, Green means beer out. Haven't made a mistake since.

chalmers wrote:Once I get my clammy hands on a keg, I swap the visible o-rings: Red means gas in, Green means beer out. Haven't made a mistake since.

Of course, this method only works if you aren't colourblind