Mini-Kegging for St.Patricks day!

[David Kilduff]

Hi from Ireland Everyone! ⁸

I've been homebrewing quite seriously for the past year with a good friend of mine and we've got together quite a collection of kit.

Currently I'm in the process of transferring about 30 litres of our pilsner into 5L mini-kegs to give to friends for the big weekend ahead of us.

After a lot of tinkering I've managed to get our mini-keg filling set up to an almost automated point and I thought I'd share.

I have it rigged up so that my CO2 canister supplies 15psi to the gun, and through a spunding valve it supplies <2psi to the keg so that the serving pressure is as low as possible. Nothing beats the magic of duotight/John guest lego!

The gun is mounted on a repurposed homemade tap setup I made so that I don't have to compress the gun to fill, I just have to turn the valve and let it fly.

I have a question for anyone who has any experience with Mini-kegs. I got these replacement bungs that you can see on the second last picture that stand a big proud of the rim compared to the usual bungs that I get. If you've seen these type of bungs and have used the same kind of kegs as this (last pic) then I would love to know if this is normal.

Thanks all, I'm sure I'll be posting a lot more soon!

 

[David Kilduff]

I have a question for anyone who has any experience with Mini-kegs. I got these replacement bungs that you can see on the second last picture that stand a big proud of the rim compared to the usual bungs that I get. If you've seen these type of bungs and have used the same kind of kegs as this (last pic) then I would love to know if this is normal.

Thanks all, I'm sure I'll be posting a lot more soon!

Just after I posted this I was able to pull it off easily so I went back to the regular ones!

Hope this helps anyone who faces this in the future haha

 

[fluketamer]

i like your minikeg filling station/setup

 

[David Kilduff]

i like your minikeg filling station/setup

Thanks! I'm more of a "cold-side" guy and I love a good kegging set up, my friend that I brew with is definitely more of the "hot-side" guy when it comes to homebrew haha

 

[fluketamer]

good cold side investment is just as important anyway. lol

kegging improved my beers. i feel the cold conditioning just makes everything cleaner. and less o2 doesnt seem to hurt either.