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The syrup is shelf stable. You can get a hose adapter for the box valve itself if you have a high shelf that can handle the weight of the 5 gallon container. You just have to know which kind of valve it uses, and then you can hook up regular beer line and a picnic tap. One source of the line...

Sure. Golden syrup is a byproduct of sugar production. It's an invert sugar (glucose and fructose, like honey, as opposed to the sucrose found in regular sugars) and can be used as a fairly direct substitute for corn syrup, honey, or simple syrup (some slight ratio adjustments are required for...

I don't think he was asking about combining the soda and syrup. If I'm not mistaken, the question was whether you could tap the syrup bag and gravity feed the syrup into a glass for mixing. The answer to that is yes. You can use any sort of food-safe liquid dispenser to gravity feed soda...

As I understand carbonation, the carbonic acid dissolves and disperses at a particular rate. If you oversaturate either by injecting too much at once (too cold a temperature) or by doing it too quickly, the acid will not have time to dissolve/break down/escape, causing a buildup and the intense...

For the record, real brown sugar is 100% cane sugar, just not processed and refined to the white sugar stage. Turbinado sugar is the crystallized variety made from this raw cane juice. Cheap brown sugar is just white table sugar sprayed with molasses and has a much less complex flavor and an...

Wouldn't want that! Thanks for the info. I've seen lots of posts saying that you need the longer line, but couldn't find any that explained why. I think I found part number 5392K13 which should work.

Hi. Why do you need longer lines?