I Store mine pressurized too. I just do it because of the toxic environment thing too. The knowing that the gasket is working is a secondary thing to me. I still sanitize on kegging day. I use Star San and rack into foam. I figure I'm keeping the beer from O2 as much as I can that way.
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all that, plus the fact that the lid can/will warp ever so slightly unless there's pressure on it to keep it aligned with the keg. It doesn't take much warpage to cause a loose fit -> leak.
I clean with PBW, let it dry, rebuilt them and fill with about a gallon of starsan, hit it with 30psi and let it sit till I need them the next time. When I do, shake the crap out of it to get the starsan all foamed up, let the pressure out and dump out the starsan. That last bit is to avoid a Justin version of my beers...
I pressurize for the leak reason but mainly now because after cleaning them and storing them I have found nasty things growing in there, (mold, scum, etc.) along with spiders and such. It makes it easier to clean and sanitize when I am ready to use them.
I keep mine pressureized, but once I had beer leak out of the popit after I racked. I have no idea how that happened because I never hooked anything to that side. It must have held the air but not the liquid. Dunno, it was even stored at a higher pressure than I carbonated. Go figure.
BDawg wrote:all that, plus the fact that the lid can/will warp ever so slightly unless there's pressure on it to keep it aligned with the keg. It doesn't take much warpage to cause a loose fit -> leak.
If my empty keg, sitting upright in a bathtub, without a lid, can warp, then I don't know much about metals...
I store my sanitized keggs pressurized so I know that theyve been cleaned. My kegs that still need cleaning have the lid half off letting me know I need to get to them.
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