Bought a Keezer and Need Some Help

[AlwaysWaven]

I bought a 5 keg keezer today and I am . I got it home and have a couple questions.

1. What is the best way to clean the kegs? Thankfully, all the lines are new, but it smells like he had root beer in each of the kegs (and the labels say that is what it is).

2. One keg is pin lock. The seller said he put wine in it and used a nitrogen bottle to feed it so that it did not carbonate. Does this sound correct? I would like to put mead in one of them.

3. Is it common to put soda in keezers? I guess if you did not want 5 beers at once it makes sense - I just have never heard of it.

Thanks to all

 

[sd_brewbie]

I always wanted to make a margarita keg but don't want to spare one of my two handles.... but if you feel you have an extra handle....

 

[Photopilot]

I bought a 5 keg keezer today and I am . I got it home and have a couple questions.

1. What is the best way to clean the kegs? Thankfully, all the lines are new, but it smells like he had root beer in each of the kegs (and the labels say that is what it is).

2. One keg is pin lock. The seller said he put wine in it and used a nitrogen bottle to feed it so that it did not carbonate. Does this sound correct? I would like to put mead in one of them.

3. Is it common to put soda in keezers? I guess if you did not want 5 beers at once it makes sense - I just have never heard of it.

Thanks to all

1. Fill it with a cleaner like oxyclean. Pump it through. Alternatively pull all the hardware and soak in an oxy solution. Consider replacing all seals if soda was really used.

2. Except for the need of different gas in and liquid out connectors pin and ball locks can be used interchangeably, but it is a pain in the butt. Sell the pin lock and buy another ball lock.

3. I believe corneys were initially designed to dispense sodas. THere are Pepsi and Coke corneys out there. I use one of my corneys at 30 PSI to carbonate water then add Torani to it to make sodas. With a variety of Toranis around each guest can choose their flavor of soda. I'd like to add a Kombucha keg to my keezer.

 

[55x11]

I bought a 5 keg keezer today and I am . I got it home and have a couple questions.

1. What is the best way to clean the kegs? Thankfully, all the lines are new, but it smells like he had root beer in each of the kegs (and the labels say that is what it is).

2. One keg is pin lock. The seller said he put wine in it and used a nitrogen bottle to feed it so that it did not carbonate. Does this sound correct? I would like to put mead in one of them.

3. Is it common to put soda in keezers? I guess if you did not want 5 beers at once it makes sense - I just have never heard of it.

Thanks to all

1. I would replace ALL the rubber gaskets. ALL of them. It's fairly cheap and easy. Just do it.

2. I have a mix of pin and ball locks and it works fine. Just have one (dedicated) line with pin lock connectors. Very basic. If you need to swap to another connector, it takes another 10 seconds with a wrench to replace it. Really, 10 seconds or less.

3. Lots of people keep soda in kegs. And a lot of other stuff. Not everyone is into beers.

 

[RichPetersen]

Is it common to put soda in keezers? I guess if you did not want 5 beers at once it makes sense - I just have never heard of it.

I have 3 taps dedicated to beer and one to carbonated water. My keezer will hold 5 corny's with no trouble so I keep one filled with water under carbonation as a backup so that when the one that is tapped runs out I can just swap over to the other thus always having carbonated water on hand. And since it's just me and my wife (and she rarely drinks beer) I figure 3 kegs on tap is more than enough beer.