5L MiniKeg - Ball Lock Tap?

[StewMakesBrew]

Hi All - after 20 years of brewing and about 125 batches, I'm finally converting over to REAL kegging - 5 gallon Corny-style ball lock kegs - I found a kegerator on Craigslist that I converted to a two-tap tower.

That said, the reason I said "REAL" above is that for 10 years and 50 or more batches I've been "kegging" into 5L Mini Kegs - the rubber bung party can types. About 6 years ago, I bought a VinoTemp mini kegerator that has lived on my bar top and has been faithfully dispensing my "Stew's Brew" for years, but I decided to grow up and do this.

So, then, "what to do" with my inventory of 5L kegged beer? How big of a problem? I have 7 kegs in inventory. 1 3/4 batches of fine homebrew.

Pouring/dumping those into a corny keg, sealing them up and repressuring it isn't an option either - that'll just o2-strike the beer and wreck it.

So, I'll dispense them - but instead through my new kegerator. I've already semi-succesfully adapted the minikeg tap that came with my VinoTemp to connect to the liquid line of one my kegerator taps, and I can use the mini-kegerator CO2 regulator to pressureize them - but what I really which for is how to adapt these to standard ball-lock connectors to the tap.

Which is where you come in.

Anyway, to my question for all of you kind folks of the homebrewing world out there - has anyone successfully adapted and/or built a 5L Mini Keg tap that attaches to Ball Lock fittings? I found one DIY searching online to build one from scratch and found another one where the dude is 3-D printing them but both seem quite kludged. I'm curious if any of you have ever done this.

So ... discuss!

 

[BBBF]

Can you just put one of these carbonation caps w/ a barb on in line with your current set up?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-4-Beer-Ba...970620?hash=item4affd8af3c:g:YeYAAOSwqfNXnwZC

 

[StewMakesBrew]

Yeah, checked that out and no - the problem is that those caps are built sort of one-size fits all where there's variation between the gas post and the liquid post in reality, so these are not meant for "install and leave alone".

 

[BBBF]

Are your ball lock disconnects barbed or threaded? If they have the mlf threads, you can unscrew the hose from the disconnects and attach them to these mlf x barbed fittings.

https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/flare14xbarb14.htm
http://www.brewandgrow.com/brew/1-4-mfl-x-3-8-barb.html

 

[StewMakesBrew]

Are your ball lock disconnects barbed or threaded? If they have the mlf threads, you can unscrew the hose from the disconnects and attach them to these mlf x barbed fittings.

https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/flare14xbarb14.htm
http://www.brewandgrow.com/brew/1-4-mfl-x-3-8-barb.html

Yeah that's kind of the MacGuyver hack I have going right now but I want to get it to where it's all just pop and go with the ball locks, just like a corny keg.