Using 3 liter bottles in tap-a-draft??

Well I've read some where that you can use 3 liter bottles in the tap-a-draft system has anybody here tried this out and do they work OK? What i was think of doing is buy the tap part and just using the 3 liter bottles since i can get them really cheap next to my house and they also fit better in my frige. I would get a full kegging system but i have no place to put it and the same goes for bottling i have no room to store so many bottles.

 

has anyone ever try this before?

 

Well i gave this a try and i got to say it works really well. which is good since the 3 liter bottles are only 99 cents!! and it sure beats the hell out of bottling 50 or so beers. it took six 3 liter bottles and had enough left over to fill two regular 12oz bottles. so if anybody here has ever wonder or cared if 3 liter soda bottles work with the tap-a-draft your answer is yes!!!

 

please do.. i'd be curious.. i got a TAD for xmas.

i'm already looking at ways to improve.. would love to find a way to use a bigger co2 cart like a paintball 20oz cheaper to refill.

 

It would be great to get a paint ball co2 on there. but am not sure how you would be able to control pressure (psi) on it. hey but if i where you I'd go buy some 3 liters bottles it saves you some bucks there.

 

you can use paintball co2 through this.. http://www.pyramydair.com/s/a/Air_Venturi_IZH_Drozd_Bulk_Fill_Adapter/1180

 

thats pretty cool i would love to how that turns out!!

 

Hmm, this seems like it might have some possibilities. I don't know a lot about about the construction of my TAD. Since there's no way to regulate the pressure from the CO2 carts, I've always understood that there is some type of valve in the head that allows only a certain pressure, 15psi I believe, but I don't really know. That probably works with the CO2 carts fine, because, once they release part of their pressure into the bottle, the regulator valve isn't holding back much excess pressure. I don't really know if that would work if you put an entire 20oz bottle on the thing without some way to reduce the pressure going into the head.

 

shooter i agree. i think you would have to use regulator, or just put enough till you hear the internal regulator releasing and than turn off the tank.

 

I have two TAD regulators and 12 6L TAD bottles. The 6L size is great if you have a few people drinking from it, but when it's just me having 1-2 beers a night, I go through too many CO2 carts. So you can buy the 3L bottles empty? Also, are they brown or clear?

 

I don't know about buying the 3L empty i always get them with cheap soda and most of the time they are clear bottles but since i keep them in a dark closet 24/7 it doesn't affect the flavor any.

 

I built one based off of this design...

It works OK... the trick is just a couple quick squirts of CO2 here and there when needed. The 3 liter caps sealed better for me than the 2 liter caps due to the fact that they are a bit bigger. It was fun to mess with, everyone got a kick out of it if I brought it to a party. I eventually decided it wasn't worth the trouble. I still use 2 liters to bottle on occasion... usually if I'm going on a canoe trip or something where glass isn't allowed. A 2-liter is only 5-6 beers so if I know I'm going to be drinking the whole thing in one setting, it's not worth messing with the CO2 tap, I just pour it straight from the 2-liter.

I bottled an entire 5 gallon batch of IPA and a 5 gallon batch of carbonated Apfelwein in 2 liters... The IPA held carbs pretty well, but I had it all gone within a month. The Apfelwein held carbs OK, but by the time it was 3 months old all the fizz was gone. I assume it was because the caps just didn't seal as well the second time around. I definitely wouldn't expect them to keep my beer carbed long term.

 

T-A-D is ok but its only i short term thing for me at least as soon i get some cash flow am going to start kegging!!! but in the mean time it works fine.