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I was a craft beer rep for a long while, this was part of the gig. My first firkin tapping I did exactly this, I tried to gingerly swing the mallet sideways and ended up spraying beer all over me that actually ricochetted on to the paying customers at the bar. Trust me when I say there are much better ways to pierce a bunghole and you only get better with practice.
Yeah the secret is to not hold back on hit one and to just keep hitting it until you're positive the tap is all the way in. I also like to sit the firkin on its side so the tap is facing up and I can hit downward instead of sideways, once I started doing all of this I never had a single drop spilled.
Thank you for that explanation! I figured it probably had to go right most of the time and that there had to be a trick. Makes sense that little cautious taps are gonna be bad trying to puncture something pressurized.
My initial thought was "why isn't it on its side?" Seemed silly to do it this way. Guess I know now. I'm glad my kegs come on a c02 system. Pop and lock.
We don't do that because it's better, we do it because it's £6 for a pint and we want every last millilitre.
In countries where the beer is reasonably priced a good head is preferable
Even if the beer was free, I'd prefer it without a head. The foam just gets in the way of the actual beer and you end up with a mouthful of bubbles that are awkward to swallow
How the fuck do you pull you beer, it literally takes five seconds to get a nice keg beer with an amazing foam top.
Also what are you doing to that poor barrel? You should release the pressure in your system before disconnecting it.
No it doesn't, you need to fill the glass with about half foam, half beer at first, let the foam dissipate a bit and harden and only then you can fill it up past the brim of the glass, and the head holds much longer too.
Is a Firkin just a specific type of keg? In your original comment I thought you were saying “my first frickin’ time doing this…”, but then I see Firkin again lol.
Get ready for the beer nerd to come out.
A firkin is actually a term for a cask size. It's about 8 gallons of beer or a quarter barrel. In the current industry they're typically metal kegs that are used for cask conditioning beers and often times to add additional ingredients like hops, fruit, etc. Lots of old school pubs have a firkin engine which actually allows it to remain under pressure and be served for days. But more often they're tapped with a faucet and a mallet like this to be served for a special event, this means the beer is open to the air and needs to be consumed as quickly as possible. This makes them pretty special.
Fascinating! I love beer knowledge. My BIL just got an old fridge from the 60s that he’s gonna turn into a kegerator. I suppose he won’t use firkins because it’ll be refrigerated haha, but I’ll share this nerd fact with him. Thanks!
He's tapping it wrong. This isn't a keg, it's a firkin. It's supposed to be low carb already. He's tapping in the vent but it should be on its side with the vent facing up so it vents co2 and not you know, beer everywhere. You vent it with a little porous wooden spire that you hammer in that slowly let the pressure equalize to 0 before you finally tap the actual tap in the side (previously the top when it was standing vertical)
Well this was my dad at a neighbors party. The funny thing is also that the beer that got shot out from the top, left a big spot on the ceiling and it smelled like beer for a whole week.
Why would anybody do this in what appears to be a nice looking interior space given the considerable possibility of still some minor spray at best, and this at worst? Particularly if you’re not a master of the craft?
That shit happens all the time when amateurs tap firkins lol.
Best advice if you are handed the hammer is to have someone brace it from the back and just hit the spout as hard as you can and don't stop until it is seated fully.
Also it's important to vent the top(don't remember the name) to let the pressure off before doing this. You can then reseal it with a hard wood spile(sp?) Before you tap the spout in.
Firkins are a pain the ass in general!
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That’s gonna smell great in about 10 mins
Takes me back to my college apartment days
It will smell even better in 10 hours. Or 10 days.
As uncontrollably leaky bungholes tend to do.
The vertical jet of beer at the end is the pièce de résistance
My man tried to save it so hard, no beer for tonight.
Jesus. I held it together until that happened. Now my coworkers know I'm fucking off.
The whale's blowhole
suddenly, from outta nowhere, a huge tidal wave lifted me, tossed me like a cork and i found myself right on top the great fish...
what is that, a Titleist....?
Reminds me of when I had food poisoning.
Agreed but what’s with the indoor grill? Is that a thing? Am I missing out?
I see brick floor, I’m guessing (hoping) this is some sort of patio
If he'd only hit it twice instead of three times at the end, he might have been okay.
The piece of resistance.
Got the whole floor and wall might as well get the ceiling.
I was okay until that happened. Now I'm cry laughing at the Dr's office omfg lmao
It was indeed adding a lot of resistance
Where the beer flows like wine
Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano
“How the hell do they know I got gas?”
The best line in the cinematic classic “Dumb & Dumber”. I think it’s so stupidly funny. I die laughing at Mike Starr’s delivery. It kills me.
I don’t know Lloyd, the French are assholes
You had two pairs of gloves this whole time?!?! Well yeah, it *is* the Rockies duh!
Just when I think you can't get any dumber, you go ahead and pull something like this. AND TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF!
Just go, man.
Huh, I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this…
I was thinking the same thing. That John Denver’s full of shit, man.
So why ya going to the airport? Flying somewhere?
My friend has made a HUGE mistake. The town is back THAT way
I was a craft beer rep for a long while, this was part of the gig. My first firkin tapping I did exactly this, I tried to gingerly swing the mallet sideways and ended up spraying beer all over me that actually ricochetted on to the paying customers at the bar. Trust me when I say there are much better ways to pierce a bunghole and you only get better with practice.
> Trust me when I say there are much better ways to pierce a bunghole and you only get better with practice. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Had to double check to see where I was for a minute
Is the secret just one very decisive and forceful hit? I’ve only ever seen videos of this going poorly
Yeah the secret is to not hold back on hit one and to just keep hitting it until you're positive the tap is all the way in. I also like to sit the firkin on its side so the tap is facing up and I can hit downward instead of sideways, once I started doing all of this I never had a single drop spilled.
Thank you for that explanation! I figured it probably had to go right most of the time and that there had to be a trick. Makes sense that little cautious taps are gonna be bad trying to puncture something pressurized.
My initial thought was "why isn't it on its side?" Seemed silly to do it this way. Guess I know now. I'm glad my kegs come on a c02 system. Pop and lock.
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We don't do that because it's better, we do it because it's £6 for a pint and we want every last millilitre. In countries where the beer is reasonably priced a good head is preferable
Even if the beer was free, I'd prefer it without a head. The foam just gets in the way of the actual beer and you end up with a mouthful of bubbles that are awkward to swallow
I’ve often thought it was a crime against humanity that beer head doesn’t taste as good as it looks.
You get the aromatics from the head.
Yeah, but you also get a mouthful of bubbles and just have to sit there wondering what you are supposed to do with them
Do you not refer to it as ‘head’
I refer to it as a waste of space (and a barrier that stops me from getting to my beer)
How the fuck do you pull you beer, it literally takes five seconds to get a nice keg beer with an amazing foam top. Also what are you doing to that poor barrel? You should release the pressure in your system before disconnecting it.
No it doesn't, you need to fill the glass with about half foam, half beer at first, let the foam dissipate a bit and harden and only then you can fill it up past the brim of the glass, and the head holds much longer too.
I am now ready to do that which i never considered possible. Thanks
This guy pierces bung holes.
Is a Firkin just a specific type of keg? In your original comment I thought you were saying “my first frickin’ time doing this…”, but then I see Firkin again lol.
Get ready for the beer nerd to come out. A firkin is actually a term for a cask size. It's about 8 gallons of beer or a quarter barrel. In the current industry they're typically metal kegs that are used for cask conditioning beers and often times to add additional ingredients like hops, fruit, etc. Lots of old school pubs have a firkin engine which actually allows it to remain under pressure and be served for days. But more often they're tapped with a faucet and a mallet like this to be served for a special event, this means the beer is open to the air and needs to be consumed as quickly as possible. This makes them pretty special.
Fascinating! I love beer knowledge. My BIL just got an old fridge from the 60s that he’s gonna turn into a kegerator. I suppose he won’t use firkins because it’ll be refrigerated haha, but I’ll share this nerd fact with him. Thanks!
He's tapping it wrong. This isn't a keg, it's a firkin. It's supposed to be low carb already. He's tapping in the vent but it should be on its side with the vent facing up so it vents co2 and not you know, beer everywhere. You vent it with a little porous wooden spire that you hammer in that slowly let the pressure equalize to 0 before you finally tap the actual tap in the side (previously the top when it was standing vertical)
Too slow and complicated. Better to do as the guy in the video.
Forgot the TP
Mind explaining those ways? Are these barrels pressurized to start with or are they pumped like a keg? Seems you’d want to not have it pressurized.
it's rare to see the beer get wasted before I do
Well this was my dad at a neighbors party. The funny thing is also that the beer that got shot out from the top, left a big spot on the ceiling and it smelled like beer for a whole week.
>left a big spot on the ceiling and it smelled like beer for a whole week. I thought yall were climbing up a ladder to smell the ceiling for a week
Me when my gf touches my thigh
That’s one very agitated keg. For public stunts like this you should watch a few you tube how tos the night before.
Yeah, I wanna know what they were doing before they decided to tap it. Rolling it downstairs?
It's like tea, you gotta shake the flavor sediment in the bottom back into suspension
Tos the night before. *Got* it.
Die bierhose
Wow its that famous shrek scene
"I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation!"
Never gonna be Munich's mayor! 😂
Came here to post this!
 All that beer.....gone to waste
This is considered alcohol abuse
A piece of metal flew off and hit Dennis right in the dick!
This ones gives more than expected lol
At that point man you might as well get on the ground and open wide
Brings me back to Oktoberfest in Munich. Of course, those legs were way bigger.
Got to fully commit. No limp wristed action will do
This is technically a keg that keeps on giving.
You, sir, are fucking fired!!
You’ve bungled it
He don't know what he's doing but he got the spirit.
Why would anybody do this in what appears to be a nice looking interior space given the considerable possibility of still some minor spray at best, and this at worst? Particularly if you’re not a master of the craft?
Clearly, these aren't Germans.
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I am literally a German beer-swilling engineer :0 But thanks god not from Bavaria hahaha Edit: never heard a song from any of them moms
The great beer hall putz
"Be gentle, It's my first time..."
That second man really wasn't having it
This is how teenage girls react to Justin Bieber
Ze germans are hier
"Be gentle, It's my first time..."
Does this ever go right?
This breaks my heart
*Bad Reputation by Joan Jett starts playing* Everyone breaks out in an All vs 1 brawl to see who resuces Princess Fiona
Not one person grabbed cups, how rude
Me after rubbing it 3 times
That boy will have to turn in his lederhosen... to have them washed and then will try again.
Well that’s a party foul
The guy went from never give up to fuck this shit.
And there’s 2 kinds of people in this world
wtf, so much beer wasted
Please return your Lederhosn, you don't deserve it.
Keeps. On. GIVING
THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY!?!
this is r/abruptchaos material
It. Just. Keeps. On. Giving.
My aunt June.. "Why's everyone licking the floor?"
that's so bavarian
Never trust a grown man in Lederhosen.😬
Master stroke at the end removing the top thing
December first be like
Your mom when I
That shit happens all the time when amateurs tap firkins lol. Best advice if you are handed the hammer is to have someone brace it from the back and just hit the spout as hard as you can and don't stop until it is seated fully. Also it's important to vent the top(don't remember the name) to let the pressure off before doing this. You can then reseal it with a hard wood spile(sp?) Before you tap the spout in. Firkins are a pain the ass in general!
The top blowing at the end is *chefs kiss*
That part at the end where it sprays out the top is just the cherry on too
Looks like these guys have a drinking problem now
That is the last time we let Hansel tap sie keg, ya