Look for the book at project gutenberg called The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16441/16441-h/16441-h.htm
It has some mead recipes from the 1600s and it is fun to see how they used an egg for a hydrometer and how they introduced yeast to the must.
I started brewing again after about a 10 year break.
I just kegged my first new batch into a ball lock corny keg and it help pressure just fine for carbonating.
The problem I ran into was that as soon as I hooked up a tap to the output, beer started to flow (with the tap in the off...