jcdouglas said:I've had some success with using 3 liter bottles with the Miller/Coors TAD. An initial problem I had was sealing the bottle during the initial carbonation (priming with corn sugar) with both the 3 liter caps and the polyseal caps (I put a balloon on top and it inflated, which suggested a leak). I ended up purchasing about 10 molded caps with o-rings directly from tapadraft.com. Using teflon tape and the molded caps, I was able to eliminate CO2 leakage during carbonation.
I have my TAD system set up to a paintball tank, so I can't speak regarding using CO2 cartridges. My system has worked well. Since it's only 3 liters, I can go through it in about a week, so I cannot comment on how long it will stay carbonated. I still prefer using the 6 liter (or 5.7 liters from Miller/Coors) TAD bottles, but I will usually fill one 3 liter bottle per 5 gallon batch.
How did you connect the tank to the TAD? Sounds like a good idea. How high do you set the pressure?
Also remember that the TAD bottles are uv resistant, while the soda bottles are not, so be careful of leaving your full bottle out in the daytime or you're likely to end up with some skunky beer.
limulus said:I was out today running some errands and saw a dollar store. I came out with 6 3L bottles of orange soda that will soon go down the drain. I have two of the the old style TAD taps and 12 6L TAD bottles. Are you guys having problems with the new taps or the old taps that use two 8g cartridges. BTW, I also have 24 Nitrogen cartridges that I will soon use in some stout.
It's the new TADs that I've had trouble with.
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