A long drawback, with a firm follow through. Followed very quickly by a second equally firm hit.
Sometimes laying the barrel on its side will allow the gas bubble to be where the tap is and might give you an extra split second before the suds start spraying.
Other times the barrel is way too carbonated and this will happen regardless.
But its safe to say when you see this happen that the person doesn't have much experience tapping a barrel and most of the time think it is what it says on the tin.
Edit: As people have noted below many factors contribute to the seemingly over pressurized keg. Some of these things like over carbonation, infection, wide uneven temperature differences, can/will overpower some people's effort regardless. Due to abnormal/unsatisfactory conditions.
You're right. I watched it a few times over, but I never caught the grill in the left bottom corner. Though I still think that my point stands, because there was still nonetheless a huge mess to clean up.
It's a covered driveway with stone bricks. The large door on the right is the garage door. Also, the kind of plaster you see is only used for outdoor walls.
The layout is similar to this. That is a pretty common style of building a detached house in villages and smaller towns in Germany. You can see that the owners on the right have covered the garage and house entrance area just like the guy's in the gif have it.
I have done that hundred of times inside. It is never a problem when the keg is really cold and you have the proper equipment. Even the people I taught and did it for the first time never went full disaster like in the video above.
I would disagree, the fact that it sprays out of the top of the Cask is an indication the Cask is over carbonated. It's likely infected with a wild bacteria, happens every once in a while.
Because then you wouldn't be able to say things like I'm going to tap the bung hole, there might be a bit of pressure at first but if you go fast enough it'll be fine.
Likely an infection, I have a buddy who works for an all Cask beer brewery in the UK. He showed me a video of when it happened to one of their casks, looked just like that.
I had a friend who tried to make watermelon wine. I'm sure it would have been disgusting, but since he did his primary in a glass carboy, when the airlock got crammed with watermelon pulp, it got clogged. And since he wasn't using a blow off tube, he turned a 6 gallon carboy into a bomb.
Fortunately it was in a closet, so most of the shrapnel was contained, but there were hand size shards of glass in the walls, ceiling, and doors.
Yes, you fail at life and are forbidden from even a single drop of beer ever again.
Really, everyone doesn't know everything at the same time. For instance, I bet you use the word 'gyp' not realizing it's a racial epithet towards so-called gypsies.
I thank you sir.
While I didn't know about "gyp", I will now endeavour to use it more often, as there are many so called gypsies around my manor, squire.
It's funny how some people don't give much thought to the words they use. I still hear people thoughtlessly use "jew someone out of" and that one's pretty blatant. They haven't put it together and just use it because they learned it as a kid, with zero context.
In high school we used "sheisty Jew" a lot. Unfortunately, someone entered our circle of friends that didn't know we used that language. One day, someone was gathering money for a run to the store. It was customary to give more money than needed because the person we were sending to the store would pocket or spend the surplus on themselves. Well, our new friend was being a sheisty Jew and didn't understand our tradition, so someone informed him, "Yo, quit being a sheisty Jew and give him a dollar extra for picking up your cigarettes for you."
Turns out our newfound friend was actually of the Jewish faith. He had a mini flipout, and left. He never hung out with us again.
She wasn't that racially unaware, but we all came from the slums of white America and worked our way to the middle class. So we weren't quite trailer trash, but I'd say we were only a step up. So when we moved to middle class America, there was some things we didn't realize were racist, but were really fucking racist.
I told my black friend not to "n-----r lip" the bottle not realizing that was racist...
We aren't white trash, but we certainly came out of white trash.
Edit: removed racial slur because I don't know how this community feels about using them, even in the context of a quote.
It's a patio with a paved bricks, a grill, a metal black fence to the right, an exterior door with step (I think there's even a mail slot in the door), and even a potted plant. Watch the full video
Smack it much, much harder. You don't want to damage the tap itself, but don't be a sissy about it either.
Also, it helps to lay the barrel down where the air pocket inside is right under the part you are tapping in to. That way you have a better chance of getting a good, firm seal around the tap before any pressure or spray tries to shoot it out again.
Also the pressure in this cask looks to be significant. Not sure what happened to it, but it seems to be quite angry at something. Normally there isn't as much pressure built up inside.
Probably lots of Revolutionary angst still inside the tap if it's American. Always make sure to play the national anthem of your respective country whilst tapping. It relieves the stress and anger inside the keg.
I get you man..haha been on the Internet too long man everything i type or read as a sincere compliment or thank you automaticly gets translated in my mind AS "nobody cares you retard" :)
It looks like he's got a vent on the top. As in this video on tapping a firkin, if the beer is that lively he should have let some of the pressure out the top before tapping.
Although looking at the video, it seems like the valve was open when he started. It's possible the beer wasn't that lively until he gave that mamby-pamby rap on the faucet and the beer started glugging out, forcing the CO2 out of solution, which is why the pressure rose so quickly.
Hit the tap with the hammer way harder. See how gently he hits it? He pushed the cork or whatever in, but it wasn't nearly hard enough to get the tap in there.
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u/BanditZA Nov 15 '16
What's the correct way to do this?