1st mini keg question

[Brewsterguy]

Hey everybody

I got a 5 liter kegland keg, with their core regulator and a fc tap.
My tap is connected directly to the keg, no beer line.

I tried making a few pours and they are Allright but I don't feel as if I have any control over them.

For example my beer is currently at 4c and I tried with fc almost closed all the way on 13psi aand later even 25psi, it was basically the same pour.

Will trying an 8psi pour and open the fc more change anything?

For me the 5Liter is a great way to bring my beer to parties and lower the amount of bottles I have. I'll probably do a kegerator project once I get the gist.

Should I just get a beer line and introduce some resistance?

 

[fluketamer]

i use a lot of mini kegs. (really no different than big kegs)

i dont have the kegland fc tap but the way i have got really good pours is :

1) trongs picnic tap 2.1 (very forgiving . works at a very wide range of pressures)

2) that orange and black duotight pia sticky flow control connected to 7 ft of 5mm id eva then to a perlick

3) old style 10 ft vinyl lines to a tower

4) even a 2 foot piece of vinyl to a cobra tap fully depressed ice cold with a low serving pressure like 5 to 8 psi works ok.

"Should I just get a beer line and introduce some resistance?" . that will work but beer lines are cumbersome especially for traveling and need to be kept cold. i would recommend 4 liter oxebars for traveling. one or two of them are great to bring to parties and very easy to keep cold. the 8 liter ones are too tall for travel. but the 4's are prefect. and much cheaper than ss minikegs.


it is a great way to lower the amount of bottles. thats what i thought. so i bought another mini. lol. then another then another, etc etc.

you will sell your bottles soon. . i never looked back.

IMO and MY experience its very hard for a bottler to have the potential to package in a smaller number of larger vessels and not do so. YMMV

 

[tracer bullet]

Agreed that it's the same as a big keg for pouring. Flow control nukatap could work, the "picnic tap 2.0" could work, or a coiled line of tubing, lost of people to the small diameter EVABarrier.

The gist is that it's coming out way too fast from a pressurized keg to a non pressurized environment in the glass (standard atmospheric pressure of course, not technically non pressurized, but you know...). That just lets all the carbonation out at once.