Here's the story, we contract brewed a batch of our beer and something seems to have gone wrong. I noticed that the beer was getting foamier and more overcarbonated after every keg we swapped out. We have been storing the kegs at ~65F as we don't have enough space in our cold room for the beer.
The beer seems to have kept fermenting in the kegs (either due to unfinished fermentation or due to an infection), to the point of dangerous pressure levels in the kegs. We are using used stainless kegs from Lawson kegs, who only rated them to 50 psi (new stainless kegs are 130psi?). I hooked up our filling tap with a pressure gauge hooked up to the gas side to check the pressure in the warm storage and it maxed it out (60psi gauge), so it's at least at like 70psi. The coupler is somewhat difficult to engage which tells me the pressure has to be high on them. I promptly got the fuck out of that room and now don't know what to do. I remembered reading about the exploding keg death (albeit with a plastic keg) in a brewery a few years ago and don't want anything to happen here like that.
If anyone has any ideas on what to do please let me know. I have legitimately though of calling in a bomb squad or something but don't know if that is ridiculous. Thanks.
The beer seems to have kept fermenting in the kegs (either due to unfinished fermentation or due to an infection), to the point of dangerous pressure levels in the kegs. We are using used stainless kegs from Lawson kegs, who only rated them to 50 psi (new stainless kegs are 130psi?). I hooked up our filling tap with a pressure gauge hooked up to the gas side to check the pressure in the warm storage and it maxed it out (60psi gauge), so it's at least at like 70psi. The coupler is somewhat difficult to engage which tells me the pressure has to be high on them. I promptly got the fuck out of that room and now don't know what to do. I remembered reading about the exploding keg death (albeit with a plastic keg) in a brewery a few years ago and don't want anything to happen here like that.
If anyone has any ideas on what to do please let me know. I have legitimately though of calling in a bomb squad or something but don't know if that is ridiculous. Thanks.
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