I had a trainee-barman working in the same pub as me… I sent him down to change a barrel… He was supposed to know how… in theory…
The pipes have a bayonet safety fixing… Half a turn to swap barrels… but sometimes they stick…
A barrel empty of beer but full of CO² gas is a lethal weapon… Instead of releasing the bayonet fixing… he’d unscrewed the valve… The valve missed his head by inches… shot up through the cellar ceiling… into the bar above and embedded itself in the bar ceiling…
If he’d been leaning over that barrel a little further… it would’ve taken his head off…
I had a trainee-barman working in the same pub as me… I sent him down to change a barrel… He was supposed to know how… in theory…
The pipes have a bayonet safety fixing… Half a turn to swap barrels… but sometimes they stick…
A barrel empty of beer but full of CO² gas is a lethal weapon… Instead of releasing the bayonet fixing… he’d unscrewed the valve… The valve missed his head by inches… shot up through the cellar ceiling… into the bar above and embedded itself in the bar ceiling…
If he’d been leaning over that barrel a little further… it would’ve taken his head off…