Anyone use a Bar Gun for dispensing from kegs?

[akthor]

Is there any reason why a pre mix bar gun wouldn't work to dispense beer?

http://www.markpowers-and-company.com/Wunder-Bar Setup.htm

They are not super spendy if you get them on Ebay

Anybody use one? Thoughts?

 

[Rockn_M]

If the beer is carbed I would guess there would be a lot of foaming.

 

[Minky]

I checked out the link you provided and read this statement:

"Just about any beverage can be dispensed through a bargun except for beer. Beer is too sensitive a product to dispense through a bargun."

 

[SeeMont]

With the beer gun, you place the brew at the bottom of the bottle and also purge the bottle with CO2 prior to filling, you probably know that. I use the beergun and have not had a problem.

 

[xaq]

Is there any reason why a pre mix bar gun wouldn't work to dispense beer?

Anybody use one? Thoughts?

Pre-mix guns are notorious for getting sticky and jamming up. Beer has all the things that growing bacteria need to settle in and make a mess (which is one of the reasons that FORWARD SEALING faucets are preferred by homebrewers over REAR SEALING).

The parts inside a pre-mix gun are... probably not happy with beer dispensing. Pick your reason: they are delicate, they are balanced for a vastly different product. They are not for beer.

Part of proper beer dispensing, to avoid foaming and flat beer and all the other flaws that can happen from keg to glass, is balancing TEMPERATURE, PRESSURE, and LINE LENGTH
http://www.newbelgium.com/files/Basics%20of%20Draught%20Dispense.pdf
and the pre-mix gun offers several problems there. The input lines for the gun are the wrong diameter (too much back pressure, which requires higher pressure to be used), are poorly insulated (temperature problems), and a gun system usually has very long lines installed (line length).

EDIT: I read this as 'POST MIX' and responded as such. Edited for PRE MIX systems, where the soda comes from a Cornelius style keg, would seem to be a much better candidate... but the above problems (and possibly others) remain.

 

[xaq]

With the beer gun, you place the brew at the bottom of the bottle and also purge the bottle with CO2 prior to filling, you probably know that. I use the beergun and have not had a problem.

BAR gun. BEER gun is a different animal. Don't worry, apparently I can't tell the difference between PRE and POST mix today.

 

[akthor]

Yeah I figured it probably wouldn't work cuz like wouldn't people use them already and I would have read about it. Bummer I guess its back to leaky picnic taps lol