While that is a neat and unique idea, it's not one you should do if you're trying to save money or get started in kegging for cheap, unless you happen to have a container like that sitting around. Looking around at prices the cheapest I saw for a new one was about $40, and I wouldn't even wanna think about buying one used. You can easily find a cornie keg on craigslist or ebay for $30-$40, or other websites and pay a little for shipping. After all the connections you'd need for the bottle above, or any other pressure capable bottle, you'd end up spending just as much on something that may or may not work as you would on a cornelius setup that is guaranteed to work, and last.
I can't find anyone other than a paintball shop that will refill a CO2 tank, they all do an exchange, I am sure somewhere this is done commonly but not anywhere I can find here.
I am hoping one of the pros here will chime in about food-grade CO2, so far I have heard from a MrFizz rep and the pro at my LHBS ... so I have room for concern about using non food-grade CO2. ...Or it's a big myth. Who knows
The "food grade" issue has been discussed on this site numerous times before. Do a search for food grade and you'll find numerous threads with the same outcome. The majority of people use whatever co2 they can get their hands on and never have a problem using it. There are one or two people in every thread that swear non-food grade co2 is giving them off flavors or contaminants, and refuse to use co2 that isn't classified as "food grade". So if you're gonna be paranoid about it, go find a supplier for so called "food grade" co2. Otherwise just do what everyone else does.
Food grade is like that of aircraft grade. They employ more quality measures (inspections) on those grades even though they are from the same source and processed the same way.
Lot of it is hype in my opinion. There are exceptions, assuming you are talking about MTBF on products. Like aircraft hydraulics or the limited ability to change ingredients/materials/processes without product testing.
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I just called a local gas supplier here ... the "food-grade" product gets extra filtration before going into tanks. The filters are very expensive I guess so not practical for me to buy for personal use, but getting refills with filtered gas seems like the fix if you want to go portable with CO2 tanks. Thanks...!!
Afterthought - my big concern here wasn't off flavors in my brew ... rather the possibility of ingesting something harmful. So I remain cautious but the portable type rig certainly is attractive none the less.
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Afterthought - my big concern here wasn't off flavors in my brew ... rather the possibility of ingesting something harmful. So I remain cautious but the portable type rig certainly is attractive none the less.
I've considered that too, I have on of these extinguishers and I am in the process of cleaning it and replacing as many parts that would come in contact with the beer as possible.
It's been a while since I have been in this thread but I stumbled across this and felt that I should add it. This is by far the easiest way to get from regulator to a paintball CO2 tank.
I have put together my 2 1/2 gal h20 fire extinguishe keg. all together cost me about $35 dollars. The only time consuming part was the cleaning, eventhough this fire extinguisher only used water I wanted to be absolutely certain that it was completely clean. I'm going to try it out first with just water, then with some super cheap crap beer from the store before filling it with my california common that is about a week away from being finished.
Thank you mpcondo. I'm glad someone took my idea and ran with it. One question though. Why put a picnic tap on the end of the line when the extinguisher handle has a release valve in it?
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One question though. Why put a picnic tap on the end of the line when the extinguisher handle has a release valve in it?
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