Fill and carb party kegs?

Came across a few of these kegs and was wondering if they could be used instead of cornys. Would I be able to serve larger batches using these? If so how would I go about filling them and force carbonating them? Any methods would be greatly appreciated.

King

well i wouldnt describe that as a "party keg". that's a keg. a standard 1/2 bbl sanke keg. the most used keg on earth? but yeah look around you can use them for homebrewing it just takes a bit of brewing to fill em and some effort to clean, pressurize, and maintain them. g'luck!

also technically they are usually owned by the brewery so repurposing them is somewhere in between frowned upon and illegal, if not obtained from certain sources.

hillhousesawdustco said:

also technically they are usually owned by the brewery so repurposing them is somewhere in between frowned upon and illegal, if not obtained from certain sources.

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For more on this, read The Ethical Dilemma of Keg Acquisition in this wiki.

If it takes the D style coupler, the American Standard for kegs, then it's fairly easy. I'm not sure what that is though.

If it is, put the keg on it's side, take a big wrench or some other tool to push down the ball to depressurize the keg completely. After that, get a small but strong flathead screwdriver, put it in one of the notches (closest to the end of the retaining ring you see) and pry that end of the ring out, then you will be able to pull it out completely. Then turn the spear (it will only turn a bit) and the notches will line up, then you can pull the entire thing out. Clean, sanitize, siphon beer in, put spear back in, start the retaining ring, then use pliers to clamp it in. After that you can connect a coupler to it and force carb it normally. You can also naturally carbonate it, which I have done and it turned out great.