Chello
Well-Known Member
I'm a new kegger and am planning a weekend away to visit some friends. I wanted to take some homebrew to enjoy for the weekend with them without having to bottle everything.
So this basically just replaces a portable co2 keg charger. My setup is just a bicycle tire pump booked up to the barbed end of a barbed gas in keg connection. Flawless.
Now i am a avid biker so i have a pretty good floor bike pump that holds a good seal using the schreader valve side (not the newer presta valve).
I realize its just pumping in outside air into the keg which is "bad for the beer", but its the same thing used on commercial kegs at a normal college keg party. I see it being used as only in situation where your going to be finishing the keg, hopefully, that night! So carb up like normal and grab your bike pump to fill the glasses.
This saves me the money from having to buy the 12/16gram co2 charger and cartridges.
I can see easy adaptations for this, like buying a cheap foot pump (or looking in your basement) and it may fit, or just snipping off the tip and using a screwclamp to attach to the barb, etc.
So just putting it out there for others.
So this basically just replaces a portable co2 keg charger. My setup is just a bicycle tire pump booked up to the barbed end of a barbed gas in keg connection. Flawless.
Now i am a avid biker so i have a pretty good floor bike pump that holds a good seal using the schreader valve side (not the newer presta valve).
I realize its just pumping in outside air into the keg which is "bad for the beer", but its the same thing used on commercial kegs at a normal college keg party. I see it being used as only in situation where your going to be finishing the keg, hopefully, that night! So carb up like normal and grab your bike pump to fill the glasses.
This saves me the money from having to buy the 12/16gram co2 charger and cartridges.
I can see easy adaptations for this, like buying a cheap foot pump (or looking in your basement) and it may fit, or just snipping off the tip and using a screwclamp to attach to the barb, etc.
So just putting it out there for others.