Distributer or multiple regulators??

[Joetuo]

Is it better to get multiple regulators or just a distributer manifold?

I have a wheat and an ordinary bitter I am about to keg and am wondering if I should spend the $30 on a distributer or $80 on the 2 regulators?

How do some of you guys handle it when you have like 6 kegs on tap of different styles that need different pressures?

 

[Evan!]

It's a price/convenience tradeoff. If you want the flexibility of adjusting the psi on individual kegs, then you need to pay the extra $$ for multiple regs. If you don't care, then you can just get a manifold and send the same psi to each one. It's up to you. My minifridge kegerator has 2 taps and 2 regulators. My big fridge has 6 kegs and one regulator. I just keep 2 taps flowing at the same psi; if I need to force-carb, I just detach the other one for a couple days while I force-carb. It's a bit of a PITA because I can't drink anything from that fridge for those 2 days, but it's alright. Sooner or later I may switch out my regulators from fridge to fridge, as I seem to be doing all my force-carbing in the big fridge these days, and it's make more sense that way.

 

[Blender]

The 2 beers named certainly use different carbonation levels so that is the advantage of a dual regulator. I bought a dual because I can force carb one keg and serve on the other. For me that was the advantage versus the cost.

 

[Joetuo]

Yeah I was kinda leaning toward the dual regulator because of the fact the beers are so different.

 

[david_42]

Another alternative is to use secondary regulators. These run off the primary's output and can be much cheaper because they run a lower pressures. I have a primary, which supplies 35 psi to the soda keg and the secondaries. Each secondary has two gas lines, so I can have five kegs at three pressures.