Well, I should go see anyway, sub-zero. Just to be sure.
I would don't take my word for it I just remember them having them back in the day. I dont see why they would not work any way if its just to presurize the keg
Did they have one of these miller dealys at BevMo in Fresno?
Hey, if there is any of you guys around Dallas area, i will have about six of these in a couple of weeks. If you are interested in a couple, I have extra you can have.
I just picked up one of the coors draft setups today. Luckily I like coors light, but I am more interested in taking the system apart after the beer is gone. I brewed some beer for vacation in july, this might be the way to take it with me. Any ideas on what size top will fit onto the bottle?
Not the exact same thing, but Nitrous is used for dispensing some beer. Guinness would be one example.
Hey, if there is any of you guys around Dallas area, i will have about six of these in a couple of weeks. If you are interested in a couple, I have extra you can have.
Hey guy's. I'm new here and the reason I found this is because of this Miller Fridge Keg that is sitting on my desk. Here is my idea and please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this be great for small or test batches? I decided to get back into brewing and do not want to go through the bottle thing again. I am not ready for a complete keg system but will be some day. This is where I need help, after fermentation if I was going to keg my beer, to add carbonation don't I apply co2 for a specified period of time at a certain temp?
Why can't I do that with this thing and then just use the canisters to dispense?
Would I have to install a valve somewhere on the fridge keg to vent the co2 as the first step? I'm still learning.
If you look at the tap for this thing there is another pin right next to the cartridge ratchet. I don't know what this is for yet?
This may be useful. If anyone has any success let us know.
Mykek
You "could" ferment in these but for primary fermentation you will have a lot of spent yeast and other sediment. You should ferment in something else that can hold the desired final volume plus trub and headspace for fermentation/krausen. Food grade buckets are cheap, but I like carboys. When it clears, you could rack into the 'fridge keg" and add a calculated amount of priming sugar for the carbonation. It would take a lot of little cartridges to force carb. If I get my hands on one or 2 of these I will just fill from my force carbed kegs for portable dispensing.
It only took 2 cartridges to carbonate some apfelwein I filled one of these with. The first cartridge took about 3-4 days to absorb. It barely flowed out at all once the co2 cartridge was empty. Put a 2nd cartridge on there and left it for around another 4 days. It seemed carb'd enough and still dispensed almost all of the contents.
Wow, so you actually carbed your apfelwein with the Home Draft System?
I bought a Coors Light Home Draft and can't wait to try this.
So, when you say it "absorbed" a cartridge, when you removed it to add a new cartridge, it didn't leak out the CO2 from the bottle?
It started to barely drip out when opening the tap. When the co2 cartridge was removed, it didn't hiss or anything. A way to tell if its spent is to open the tap and listen for co2 bubbling into the bottle.
I'm wondering if you actually carbed your beer with two co2 cartridges that you added to the Home draft system.
Did it really work?
I just got a hold of one of these and am wondering if I primed my brew just like I was going to bottle, but filled one of these if it would carb alright?
Thank you sir, that should come in handy.Hey fellas, just read the entire post and have played around with both of these systems. The link listed below has a lot of useful info pertaining to TAD use, thought I throw it out here since the draft box is basically the same thing. Best of luck.
Tophatxj, it also contains natural carb instructions.
Link: https://secure.midwestsupplies.com/index.php/aitdownloadablefiles/download/aitfile/aitfile_id/450/
So what is the consensus on this? Is it a handy replacement for TAD and do the 16g cartridges from Midwest supply work?
My thoughts are to treat as a TAD system, carb 3L (or 6L) bottles with priming sugar, and when ready to dispense, remove the top of the 3L/6L bottle and tap with this.
I just don't want to buy $20 worth of beer that I will not drink, dump it out, and have something that doesn't work (especially after buying $13 worth of 16g carts)..
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