Anyone run nitrogen in their kegerator for any beer instead of Co2?

[day_trippr]

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@day_trippr - imperial choco stout on nitro sounds like an amazing nightcap!!

I have this size pour every night and it kicks my @ss into a sound sleep

Cheers!

 

[DuncB]

Well my comments from the NITRO thread answer a few points raised above.

The cheapest way to get the headed stout effect is to use the ultrasonic jewellery cleaner method and a low carbed CO2 pour.
Plenty of videos of how to do this on the web. After all the Nitrogen adds nothing to the product you drink it just gets it there in style!

Guinness did make these gadgets ( surgers ) for a while but they are a rarity and expensive now. Aliexpress has them quite cheap, apparently a big tall head on the beer is something the Japanese really like. I prefer beer in my glass. But they do have these surger units and they are reasonably priced, if you don't want to get a jewellery cleaner!
It's like those Side taps that some people are raving about. It's just a Stout adapter on tap that is controlled with a ball valve rather than the on off that the normal beer taps have. I fail to see why 3 different types of head on my Czech lager makes it better ( Svetle, Polotmavy, or Tmavy).
But horses for courses.

I don't like the non Nitro beers on Nitro they just aren't right, flat, etc etc. But the Nitro stout is a pleasure that I'm not even guilty about.

 

[50calshooter]

SO i currently am running a dual pressure taprite Co2 regulator with a Co2 tank. Looking to get a stout faucet and it seems i can use nitrogen to push all my beers as well as have the nitro for my stouts and nitro cold brew coffee.

Has anyone made the switch? What are the pros and cons?

I would still keep a single reg and co2 tank for force carbing but am wondering if it is a better idea to switch to nitro overall? Anyone know how many cornye itll push with nitro vs co2?

You want "beer blend" (75/25) gas not 100% nitrogen. I use to work a food gas delivery route. Ive nitrogenated every beer I drink at one point just to see what it was like. Waist of time. For me and my taste in beer nitrogenated beers are over rated.

 

[50calshooter]

My understanding is that you can use beer gas to dispense "normal beer". You would just need 4x the pressure and enough line to compensate. I've heard of bars doing this when there kegs are a significant distance from the tap.

So definitely a pro when you can't get adequate flow rate with line size without over carbonating the keg.

Also a pro would be only one cylinder for both stout and non-stout.

I haven't wrapped my mind around the jockey box. Long lines and beer at higher temp(in the keg) would both drive the need for higher pressure. I'm not sure how to compensate for the cooler lines in the box...

Personally, I have stout on tap on nitro and a separate cylinder just for it.

When beer travels over 100 feet or so you use 75/25 to keep it from over carbonating

 

[Beholder]

I’ve got carb and nitro taps. Enjoy the side by side of same brew served differently as well a nitro cold brew coffee made to my caffeine preference. Beer gas fills are more expensive (and doesn’t stretch as far since it is gas and not liquid like a CO2 tank), so I keep both. If you had majority nitro taps, then sure, you could compensate the odd carbonated beer with extra line, but the cost delta and having only 2 nitro taps of 8 in service means two cylinders for me.

 

[Hwk-I-St8]

Running beer gas with a stout head on a 12% spiced stout. It's glorious.

 

[Mutant]

Curious if I make a keg filled with liquid Margaritas (no crushed ice and filter limeade pulp) if using nitrogen would be a better option than CO2 to push it out of the keg. I don't think a bit of CO2 carbonation would be bad but nitrogen would solve that. My other concern is that the solid would settle and the alcohol would rise. Any thoughts or solutions?

 

[Nathan Graen]

I’ve got carb and nitro taps. Enjoy ... a nitro cold brew coffee made to my caffeine preference.

Is your nitro cold brew on straight N2 or N2 + CO2?

I dispensed a keg of white wine on N2...

 

[DuncB]

Put the margarita in a wine bag and gravity feed it or put the bag in a keg and connect tubes up so that CO2 going in pushes on the outside of the bag and then the liquid gets forced out thru the tubing keg post and normal delivery. Nitrogen and beer gas are more expensive than CO2.

 

[bkboiler]

I just think that the fact that nitro is abbreviated the same as nitroglycerin, nitrous oxide, etc... it just has a cool factor.
When we talk about CO2 we have to enunciate the chemical formula or name--"carbon dioxide". Just doesn't roll off the tongue the same way.
The one time I had argon in beer, I said well, that was nice...don't need to pay for that again.
I do love a good nitro stout, or coldbrew...would love to get a separate system for that one day! I have an intertap stout spout...was planning to just use that with my CO2 on low pressure when I make my next stout.

 

[DuncB]

I have wondered if a low carb stout in keg and then a blast of nitrogen from a disposable cylinder to raise the pressure up to 35 psi say might be an option. Pressure will fall as you drink and then just blast up with CO2 again to the correct vols at the end of the session. Interesting experiment. I have a nitro keg for my stout so can't play that game. The other option would be to use a beer engine with a creamer for the stout because the nitro was only a way of getting the Guinness to the masses the same way it was on draught in Ireland. After all you can't taste the nitrogen in the beer.
Original draught Guinness thru the beer engine is an experiment I have on the radar.

 

[jerrylotto]

I have this size pour every night and it kicks my @ss into a sound sleep

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Cheers!

You should have an elephant in the picture for scale...

 

[50calshooter]

Curious if I make a keg filled with liquid Margaritas (no crushed ice and filter limeade pulp) if using nitrogen would be a better option than CO2 to push it out of the keg. I don't think a bit of CO2 carbonation would be bad but nitrogen would solve that. My other concern is that the solid would settle and the alcohol would rise. Any thoughts or solutions?

When you push cocktails through a draft system you should use 100% nitrogen. You don't want your margarita carbonated. Yes it does separate. Places that have mixed drinks on tap have to go into the cold storage a few times a day and shake the keg up. Well, those places that care do.

 

[beersk]

So I was told that an Intertap stout adapter with the restricted plate won’t work for serving nitro stout, I’ve been told I need a nitro faucet? Anyone have experience with this?

what’s the best way to achieve nitro?

I have both intertap faucets and a nice Guinness stout faucet and I had forgotten I bought the intertap stout faucet adapter some years ago. So I decided to try it out and they pour exactly the same with the beer gas mix. I'm actually considering selling my stout faucet and getting another intertap so I can interchange when I don't have any nitro worthy beer brewed to put on nitro.

 

[Beholder]

Is your nitro cold brew on straight N2 or N2 + CO2?

I dispensed a keg of white wine on N2...

Beer gas - I don’t mind the light carb in the cold brew and didn’t want to faff about with maintaining beer gas levels with alternating CO2 and Nitrogen for the Nitro beers.

 

[TsunamiMike]

I’ve got carb and nitro taps. Enjoy the side by side of same brew served differently as well a nitro cold brew coffee made to my caffeine preference. Beer gas fills are more expensive (and doesn’t stretch as far since it is gas and not liquid like a CO2 tank), so I keep both. If you had majority nitro taps, then sure, you could compensate the odd carbonated beer with extra line, but the cost delta and having only 2 nitro taps of 8 in service means two cylinders for me.

good lord that is a beautiful thing!