BFauska
Active Member
I've been battling with the question of "keg or bottle" on my latest batch and I've decided to seek some advice. I can get a free corney keg and use a CO2 bottle from work, so I'd just need fittings, hose, a regulator, tap and some new o-rings to keg my beer. I'm willing to cask condition the beer instead of force carb, since I don't have room for a fridge for my beer, but to drink it cold I'd need a jockey box, which costs as much or more than a used fridge to make a kegerator out of and I'd have to keep it iced whenever I want to use it.
My question to all of you is whether you think it would be worth kegging instead of bottling if you didn't have a fridge to put the keg in and dispense from?
I'm also wondering if using hose instead of stainless coils for the jockey box would be dumb. I imagine that the expansion of the hose under pressure and/or the exposure to that much plastic would be a detriment to my beer or dispensing. It may not even cool the beer as well, I think plastic/rubber is a better insulator of heat than stainless steel would be.
Should I wait until I have room for a kegerator before I start to keg my beer? What would you do?
My question to all of you is whether you think it would be worth kegging instead of bottling if you didn't have a fridge to put the keg in and dispense from?
I'm also wondering if using hose instead of stainless coils for the jockey box would be dumb. I imagine that the expansion of the hose under pressure and/or the exposure to that much plastic would be a detriment to my beer or dispensing. It may not even cool the beer as well, I think plastic/rubber is a better insulator of heat than stainless steel would be.
Should I wait until I have room for a kegerator before I start to keg my beer? What would you do?