So question: I have movers taking my stuff 1200+ miles, about a week of travel. I have two corneys with finished beer in them. One is almost done and I'll empty in time. The other is 99% full. I hear transport trucks get very hot. If I let the beer come to room temp and purge to keep the pressure low, I should hopefully be ok right? I'd hate to have to throw a party and to finish a whole …
I'm looking at purchasing a stainless steel carbonation cap. E.g. https://www.homebrewfinds.com/2018/12/hands-on-review-ferroday-stainless-steel-carbonation-cap-for-pet-bottles-draft-line-cleaning-builds.html If you do a Google search for "stainless carbonation cap" you can see them listed at lots of online brewing stores. Most of these online stores list the following uses for the cap: Carbonate Cleaning your beer lines Use it to counter pressure bottle fill PET bottles Numbers 1 and 2 make sense to me. However, number 3 is confusing me. How can you counter pressure fill a bottle …
As I read in some answers to other questions they should not explode, is it true? Why is that? Is it because they have a safety valve or just because they are very strong?
What equipment is required to clean and fill a commercial keg (not one adapted for homebrewing), before paying for a full blown keg washer and filler? Is this even possible?
Say I have a keg of beer at around room temp. (23C/73.4F). I want 2.2 volumes of CO2 carbonation so using this calculator I figure out I need to add 25.83PSI of pressure - some time later the beer is carbonated. To serve the beer, I decant 5 litres at a time into a mini-keg which I keep in the fridge (3C/37.4F). The same calculator says that starting from scratch, I would only need to add 7.82PSI @ 3C. But …
I have a 5 gallon keg that I have filled with approximately 4 gallons of liquid. The keg has an inlet and outlet fitting for gas carbonation. The inlet fitting is shallow and the outlet fitting goes all the way to the bottom of the tank. My normal carbonation process is done through a pump connected to the keg moving the liquid around and this pump is also connected to the gas cylinder pumping 10psi of CO2. The keg with …
I'm finally getting back into brewing. I'm using a keg my daughter bought me, and I have the CO2 tank. At one point, I bought this regulator. But the numbers on the dials don't seem to make any sense! I've read about people using 8 .lbs of pressure, but if the red numbers are pounds, I can't even make it go that low without the adjustment screw coming all the way out. Plus, if the black numbers are kilos, the …
I would really appreciate some advice, at home I have Pilsner keg beer in my cellar at 12c (53f)it is being propelled with a gas cylinder containing 80%nitrogen and 20% carbon dioxide which is at 2.6 bar. The beer tap unit is a Pygmy brand has an integrated cooler which through a coil cools the beer to around 6c, and a pilsner type tap for creating proper Pilsner type beers. I am concerned about the way this is set up …
My old valve (on the right) was leaking so ordered a new one from Amazon. It was the only kind I could find so assumed they were all the same. It doesn't seem to fit my keg though. Can someone tell me what "style" my old one is so I can order the correct one?
A local craft brew is having a sale on kegs which they brewed up a while back and have not been able to dispense due to the current pandemic situation. I have a 1/2 barrel in my kegerator now and thinking about purchasing a (probably already chilled) keg and letting it sit in the basement for a couple months before installing in the kegerator. I've also never home brewed before but am reading up on it and slowly acquiring equipment …
I'm running a 5 cubic feet Magic Chef keezer with 2x6s for a collar so I can get an additional keg on the ledge. I cut the corners at 45 degrees and sealed off the collar with caulk, weather stripping, etc etc. I have two recirculation fans and a bag of Damp Rid and within 2 hours of starting it up there's condensation pooling in the bottom corner. I have the temp set to 37 degrees F. Any tips or …
For me, these 5 liter kegs seem like the perfect device for storage as well as remaining fresh when making beer. I understand there is a way to remove the top piece of the mini keg with some type of key? Once removed, what do you clean them with? and then how do you re-pressurize the keg?
I have a beer tower whose lines need replacing. But, I am having great trouble actually pulling the old lines out of the tower. They seem to be attached to some metal disks, which I can neither pull back through the tower, nor push through past the point where the faucets are attached. I can wiggle them around, but I can not actually dislodge them. The lines are stuck, dangling from the main body of the tower. Is there a …
I am used to bottling my beer and do bottle conditioning. However, I just bought a few 5l mini kegs for the next batch which is currently fermenting. From what I have read from different sources, you need less sugar when conditioning in a mini keg than in a bottle (it varies from source to source, but it ranges from 75% to 50%, or even only 33% of the amount of sugar per liter that you would use for bottle …
Frankly only shops I have visited fail completely in providing an indication about what exactly they are selling when it comes to keg fittings. I have read this answer to another question, which was asking less generally then this, also about the fittings for keg connectors. My question is: What are the different standards related to those fittings, what, and more over how can I measure which fitting I have? Bonus: Is it only my impression that online shops do …
I just got a brand new keg. The keg isn't just new to me but totally unused. Do I need to use TSP to clean it prior to my first use? I'm worried about industrial residues that might be left on the stainless steel.
Many of us don't have refrigerators for these 50 liter kegs and the CO2 tank. With due care not to expose the CO2 tank in direct sunlight, to what temperatures will these pressurized kegs be fine with 4% alcohol cider inside them ? How about 7% ?
I made some burton bridge from a kit and secondary-fermented it in a 25 litre keg with a tap and a cap capable of taking a CO2 cartridge holder (none was fitted) I left it in our warm utility room (circa 22°C) for five days to second-ferment with a standard amount of sugar then it was stored in the garage between 16-20°C (daytime). No leaks evident anywhere as the pressure was normal initially. By the time the barrel was half …
I have a standard stainless steel Hansen Coupler for Pin-Lock type Cornelius Kegs. I'm trying to find the exact specs on both the 1/4 MFL and the inside (female) threads, where it connects to the actual pin lock coupler. The coupler and the 90 degree elbow unscrew, and the coupler itself has a male threaded end that I've seen various places refer to as 7/8-14 and 5/8 BSP - but it doesn't seem quite that big. Is that correct, or …