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I like the little charger I have for the odd-ball portable keg dispensing (camping, impromptu party at family/friends). Yes it is difficult to control the pressure (tell everyone to treat it like a typical beer tap/pump, but be light on the trigger). Yes once you tap the little co2 tank you...

Do you still have this? I would to know what shipping would cost to 15131.

That's a good point. I know I can fit five ball locks on the floor of my keezer. I'm 98% sure 5 pinlocks wont fit. I'll have to play around with that to see what configuration or combination will work. I use John Guest fittings and MFLs so swapping really wont be much of an issue. The other...

Yeah, when I say I'll 'work my way through the rest of the 26', that might take 2 months or it might take 2 years. Thinking I'd like to get through at least 15 or so which would let me gradually swap out and sell the 8 to 10 ball lock kegs I have in rotation now.

Augie- thanks for the input. I brew 10 gallon batches and might end up fermenting in these kegs (or at least using them as no-chill vessels) so I think the keg washer will be valuable in the future. I luckily had ordered 100 packs of orings a few years back for poppets, posts, and diptubes so...

Well I got three cleaned somewhat the “old fashioned” way today. It wasn’t all that bad to be honest. I did rig up a pond pump with a 1/2 inch pvc pipe, set it in a bucket with the keg inverted over it (all connections removed) and circulated some hot oxyclean while I cleaned another keg a...

pshank - awesome, simple, effective design. Love that it can be multipurposed. Cabron - You're probably right. These kegs have sat for the better part of 20 years with soda remnants in them, I suppose another couple weeks/months/years wont hurt them all that much. Clean as I need them is...

pshankstar - Thanks for input. I did see those conversion kits from AIH but that would nearly double the cost of my kegs ... I am thinking that with so many I'd be better suited to just switch over entirely to a pin lock system - that would only require replacing a half dozen or so quick...

Oh maybe I should fab up a multi-keg cleaner - pump running to a PVC manifold that has multiple stickups - each stickup spraying one keg. I could put that all inside a big Rubbermaid container (bathtub even) and knockout 4 to 6 at a time. Probably would need a pretty strong pump though...

That's a novel idea to fab something up that would spray the outsides too ... I was hoping that just allowing the inverted top of the keg soak in the cleaner would get the gunk off - there's only 3 or 4 that have really dirty side walls - it would be cheating if I didn't have to scrub anything...

Hey all, its been a while since I've posted here. Brewing kind of fell off the priority list for a couple years - Ive brewed but not with the obsession I previously had. Anyway, after spending way too much money on commercial beer my wife and I are ready to get back into the swing of things -...

If you have the room, think about an actual tub. Could pick one up for cheap at one of those reuse places.

I think if I continue to have issues with water cooling after getting the box all sealed up, I will probably scrap the whole idea and pick up a used AC unit for $25 on craigslist and mount that to the side of this box. While I don't agree that that is the more 'efficient' solution, it...

I am kicking myself for throwing away a perfectly working (albeit ugly) window AC unit when we moved a couple years ago. Do you think that just adding another heat exchanger (eliminating the reservoir and just having a closed loop system) would work well? I probably wont need this...

Good point regarding the volume, I can definitely see that as being an issue. I have two computer fans mounted to the cooler, set up the same as you (wonder where I got that idea :D), so circulation isn't the issue. I definitely think the chamber needs sealed up better. If I could only...

Well this isn’t going as planned so far. I’ve got 10 gallons of pumpkin ale in the chamber and the system is struggling to keep temps in the low 60s where I usually ferment (last night the beer was at high krausen and was reading almost 70 and the reservoir water was in the 60s). Some of...

Brewed this up this past weekend and brewday was a nightmare (due mostly to my lack of preparation). I got the king of all stuck mashes by a) crushing the grain too fine, b) not adding enough rice hulls to the bottom of the MLT, c) having a piss poor manifold (pex pipe with mesh bag tied around...

Glad to hear it! The haze will likely get better but may not clear completely.

I vote don't do anything to it until you've pulled about 6 to 10 beers off the keg. You may find that it mellows out more once all those hops/grapefruit particles are relatively cleared out.

I guess my point is that the rind particles may be settled at the bottom of the keg and the first couple pulls will be stronger than the rest maybe. Sorry for the captain obvious post. :-P