1/4" beer line with oxebar keg in regular fridge - Length/foam issues

[DuncB]

kitchen fridge kegging is a game changer i dont know why more people dont do it.

It would be life changing for me, think my wife would kill me if I started migrating " more beer stuff into the kitchen fridge "

 

[mac_1103]

Yeah. I couldn't fit a six pack in the kitchen fridge.

 

[fluketamer]

this can be put in a 3 cu ft dorm fridge that you can hide under any cabinet, table, or sink ( dont ask me how i know) . then once its in the house its more likely to stay .

 

[Matheos]

You might still look into this and see what it takes to actually read the keg's pressure

Yea it does seem like the mini core 360 may have a check valve built in... Either that or it is massively undershooting for me.. Should I get a manometer to put on, for example, the beer out post in order to get another reading? Looking into them rn but of course either the ball lock fitting or the adapter (needed for the threaded ball locks) are out of stock...

The video and pictures are quite close to my setup tbh. And yea tell me about a close fit... Had to move some shelves around and with the regulator sitting on top of the soda stream bottle, the damn thing wont fit any other way than diagonally....

I should probably reduce the gas line quite a lot as it is unnecessarily long. But from here you can see why I would prefer having just a bit of beer line at least... But I think the picnic 2.1 would fit in there yet... With some balancing of the top shelf

 

[Matheos]

At this point in time it's probably still useful information.

A money saver idea: Could I get a spunding valve with e built in manometer? Then I could use it for spunding in the future. Would that do the trick if I set the pressure to max when connected to the keg, should it not then read the pressure without letting any pressure out? This way I don't need to buy a separate spunding valve in the future.

 

[tracer bullet]

A money saver idea: Could I get a spunding valve with e built in manometer? Then I could use it for spunding in the future. Would that do the trick if I set the pressure to max when connected to the keg, should it not then read the pressure without letting any pressure out? This way I don't need to buy a separate spunding valve in the future.

It should work, yes. You'd be connected to the keg's gas post, the poppets would be depressed to give a path to the gauge, and it should read the keg pressure. Just past that is where you'd set the max pressure.

For your frig I wonder about letting the keg take the left side and food take the right side. Maybe you could find or create some small shelves that were narrow but tall? Yet still small enough to fit of course. Or give up and get a 2nd frig

 

[Matheos]

It should work, yes. You'd be connected to the keg's gas post, the poppets would be depressed to give a path to the gauge, and it should read the keg pressure. Just past that is where you'd set the max pressure.

For your frig I wonder about letting the keg take the left side and food take the right side. Maybe you could find or create some small shelves that were narrow but tall? Yet still small enough to fit of course. Or give up and get a 2nd frig

Thanks for the info, I may just get a spunding valve then for the "second reading". Though a bit sad that I could not have it connected at the same time as the regulator, but I guess for a quick check every now and then it is not too bad.

Regarding the fridge: We live in a 64 square meter apartment (690 square feet) and we already feel crowded. Don't think a second fridge would be possible in any way in the current apartment but definately in the future when we get out of here
It would be cool to figure out some modifications to the shelving system yes, but getting it through with "the boss" is another thing As we don't own the place, any permanent modifications are not possible either of course.

Earlier I had the keg laying on its side in the "vegetable drawer" at the bottom which probably was spacewise a bit better but I started getting beer into the gasline as beer was all the way to the top and getting in with the gas...

 

[fluketamer]

Yea it does seem like the mini core 360 may have a check valve built in... Either that or it is massively undershooting for me.. Should I get a manometer to put on, for example, the beer out post in order to get another reading? Looking into them rn but of course either the ball lock fitting or the adapter (needed for the threaded ball locks) are out of stock...

The video and pictures are quite close to my setup tbh. And yea tell me about a close fit... Had to move some shelves around and with the regulator sitting on top of the soda stream bottle, the damn thing wont fit any other way than diagonally....
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I should probably reduce the gas line quite a lot as it is unnecessarily long. But from here you can see why I would prefer having just a bit of beer line at least... But I think the picnic 2.1 would fit in there yet... With some balancing of the top shelf

love it !

the soda stream on its side wont matter and hey who cares , you got kegged beer - nice!

heres your valve i use it to check my kegs all the time:

https://www.morebeer.com/products/b...pIKXjLS3J1cEOIe_D9Ol3w3PFhIEEX2hoCDXkQAvD_BwE

you can also put one together yourself for a little cheaper there are a lot of configurations.

dont side keg. i know kelgand morebeer and cankeg say you can but i have never had good luck with lying any kegs on there side.
even with weighted flexible dip tube i have had serving problems.

 

[mac_1103]

heres your valve i use it to check my kegs all the time:

https://www.morebeer.com/products/b...pIKXjLS3J1cEOIe_D9Ol3w3PFhIEEX2hoCDXkQAvD_BwE

I've got a couple of those. Even put one of the digital gauges on one of them (be careful about that though - there are two types and I think the one that's linked to on that page is wrong). The only thing I can say about accuracy/precision is that when I prime in a keg and wait a couple of weeks the pressure stabilizes at a value pretty close to what the online calculators say it should be.

 

[Matheos]

That is actually exactly the one that I have been looking into!

So I am leaning a bit towards one of those + picnic 2.1... That could be my next step