home beer making question dont know what to do about my keg ?
ok iv never made my own larger before so bought a cheepo kit and followed all the instructions … i then bought a plastic keg to put the beer in .. trouble is the tap keeps dripping i think there is too much pressure inside it , when i tried to draw some it shot out and was all foam lol .. its only been in the keg 3 days and has another 11 days to go … what am i ment to do? there is a valve at the top of the keg that releases gas if i press it but am i ment to do that or leave it as it is … thanks in advance im a complete newbie to beer making
thanks confused irish man , its not finished yet so iv moved it outside so its colder and released the excess gas , i cant get it in the fridge its too big
I’m not sure if your beer is still fermenting or not. If it is, skip to below. If it is finished fermenting and is in a fridge, just vent a little CO2 until it starts to pour properly. Or pour enough beer until it evens out 
As for the dripping, you could get some pipe thread to wrap around the tap threading (i’m assuming it’s a threaded connection for this to work. Also, make sure the O-ring (if it came with one) is connected properly.
f you are still fermenting in that vessel, it would be a good idea to vent it every day. Better idea would be to install an airlock if you can. As the yeast consume the sugars in your quasi-wort (wort is just a fancy word for unfermented beer) they produce ethanol and carbon dioxide. That carbon dioxide is the same gas that is also used to carbonate your beer, so it is possible, given a proper vessel and yeast, to carbonate and ferment at the same time. However, beer at say, 70 degrees Fahrenheit can not hold much CO2 in solution due to gas laws. It needs to be cold to sustain carbonation.
The point of that being, if your keg is sitting at room temperature, all that CO2 being produced is just going to sit at the top of your keg, trying it’s hardest to get out. And most plastic vessels can’t sustain a high pressure. Airlocks allow gas to come out but not go it, they cost about $1.50 and can be found at any homebrew shop. You can also make your own using a piece of tubing and a large glass of water. If you can remove the valve entirely, so the keg has an open hole, connect one end of the tube to the top of the keg and place the other end in the glass of water. This will allow CO2 to go down the tube and into the glass, where it will bubble away.
If you can put this in a fridge, just do that and ignore the whole airlock deal; the excess CO2 should dissolve into the beer.
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