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Gene GeRue wrote:

> > I aim to put a keg in the creek this winter.
> > Ted
>
>
> Check the temperature often. Unlike wine, which will keep well at 
> merely cool temperatures, beer will go bad unless it is kept cold. 
> Especially a 15.5 gallon keg. My tapper temperature currently is 26 
> degrees at the bottom and 33 degrees at the top of the keg. Much 
> colder than I prefer to drink it, so I fill a glass and let it warm 
> before drinking. Beer has a relatively short shelf life and kegs 
> typically last awhile. Here in the city I don't drink as much as when 
> I am at home doing hard physical work, so the last keg lasted two 
> months. Toward the end I found myself having morning diarrhea. At 
> first I decided it was some moldy blueberries I ate--I saw the mold in 
> the box after I had swallowed. As the condition persisted for several 
> days, I suspected the beer. When the keg went dry and I took 
> everything apart for cleaning I found lots of seriously nasty stuff 
> inside the tap. After getting the new keg tapped with all clean 
> equipment, all is well. Back home I used to keep a champagne plastic 
> "cork" on the end of the tap to keep it protected from room air and 
> bugs. Here, I think I will untap the keg and clean the tap every 
> couple of weeks. Well, at least when I find negative morning symptoms 
> recurring.
>
> Gee Gee keeps leaving out the really important things---not a word 
> about what kind of beer he is now concocting and storing---with which 
> to sicken guests and their pet alligators.  Folks, the latest is 
> Lutefisk Lager, than which there is no whicher.  The mold in the 
> bottom of the keg is the best partl