becon776

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so at a recent trip to beers of the world... I happened upon this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6zf29iUjN4

and I immediately thought omg i want to reuse this. after doing some searching i found that it's possible and i bought it. Now you have to choke thru 1.5 gallons of coors... ugh.... the owmbo was wanting to know why I am drinking so much beer on a tuesday night.. hahahah. after a couple of buddies came over and we made short work of the coors. I just simply use vice grips to slowly turn the co2 part the opposite way that they want you to turn it. screwed off the top of it, filled it with cider, put a new 16 gram co2 in (2 bucks at brew store) and turned it. VOILA!! my cider is now kegged and pressurized for 20 bucks. it took five minutes. absolutely absolutely AWESOME!! everyone must get one of these. really just look at it as a 20 dollar home keg kit that comes with crappy beer for first use. can't say enough good things about this.

kc_in_wv

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Well I would have poured the Coors in the local sewage pond and watched the Carp go belly up Nice find otherwise

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becon776

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yeah not gonna lie... drank about half on my own then my buddy came over and we each tried to hurry up and slam the other half. like two kids in a toy store the other half including our two pints was fed to my sink. I'm tellin you though, i cannot say enough good things about this. went thru the first 1.5 gallon of cider last night. i gotta stop though. the owmbo is not liking this. but i mean give a guy a break my first ten gallons of cider just finished secondary! I had to test it to see if i had actually made alcohol! then last night I had to test the keg out to see if it stayed pressurized from top to bottom.. it's just good science! hahaha

i hope more people get this toy and figure out ways of perfecting its use. Like whether to prime it or if carbonation increases if left sit for a bit. lots of questions and possibilities for this lil contraption.

RukusDM

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I have re-used one of these. I didn't have a issue with the co2 cartridge, however I've read some folks get leaks.

I was intending to buy several of these to have around. My wife bought me a Tap-a-Draft system. That only cost $60 or $65 delivered from westernbrewer supplys I think. I kept the coors light keg thing around, but using my TAD now.

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MattyD

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Wow, I want 10.

HexKrak

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You can get a tap-a-draft setup with 3 bottles and c02 for ~$60.
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/tap-a-draft-starter-kit.html

It's about the same cost per bottle, but you only get 1 tap, but it's also meant to be reused, and comes with co2... I've been trying to decide if I want to go this route for now, or just wait and make a keezer.

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becon776

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i had never heard of tapadraft system so thanks for that link. yeah it looks pretty identical to the coors keg system except 2x8 gram co2 v.s. 1x 16 gram co2... I had no issues changing co2 and reusing.

The tapadraft info is cool because they are giving some guidelines about priming which i think would work perfect in the coors.
For me, the coors is the way to go bc owmbo hates custom brews and will not even sip them. She is a coors light, bmc beer drinker... plus younger bro is in the beer pong cheap beer age bracket so trying to encourage both of them to get these.

RukusDM

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You can get additional bottles and caps for around 6 bucks a piece. You can put your cider or beer in the bottle and prime it and cap it so it will naturally carbonate.

You can also use nitrogen cartridges if you have a nice guiness clone too

Love mine.

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Primary's:
#1 - 5 Gallons Harp Clone All Grain with Wyeast 2007 Lager (~5.5% ABV)

Secondary's:
#1 - 6 Gallons Dry Irish Stout Partial (~4.0 ABV)
#2 - 6 Gallons Brown Sugar Ale All Grain with Nottingham Yeast (~5.0% to 5.2%)

Kegged:
6 Gallons Honey Ale AG

Next:
6 Gallons Brown Sugar Lager

Fletch78

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Tapadraft bottles annoy me because they have rounded bottoms which requires three hands to fill them with beer. Also, it's a pain in the ass to find 8g Co2 cartridges locally.

RukusDM

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Mine are not round on the bottom. They have 4 little bumps on the bottom like feet. No issues filling.

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Primary's:
#1 - 5 Gallons Harp Clone All Grain with Wyeast 2007 Lager (~5.5% ABV)

Secondary's:
#1 - 6 Gallons Dry Irish Stout Partial (~4.0 ABV)
#2 - 6 Gallons Brown Sugar Ale All Grain with Nottingham Yeast (~5.0% to 5.2%)

Kegged:
6 Gallons Honey Ale AG

Next:
6 Gallons Brown Sugar Lager