how do I ship a filled Corny keg

[terrazza]

Traveling down to New Mexico from Portland for thanksgiving and wanted to stash a filled corny keg in my (wife's) suitcase right before the flight. Yeah or neah. Can you travel with a corny assuming it's not carry on?
Any other suggestions on getting it down there?

 

[slimer]

It is illegal to ship alcohol.

 

[tdiowa]

Traveling down to New Mexico from Portland for thanksgiving and wanted to stash a filled corny keg in my (wife's) suitcase right before the flight. Yeah or neah. Can you travel with a corny assuming it's not carry on?
Any other suggestions on getting it down there?

Why don't you put it in your suitcase and see how far you get????

TD

 

[Chriso]

I was only able to find a couple links on this topic.

Shipping Kegs - Beer News & Opinions - BeerAdvocate
Moving gas tanks - Homebrewing - BeerAdvocate

I think that - without some sort of "legit" wholesaler on the other end... you might be in bad shape. Sorry.

 

[scinerd3000]

you might get stopped at the airport. I wonder what irradiated beer tastes like?...

 

[Yooper]

Well, if it's in your suitcase, that should be fine. The problem might be oversize/overweight luggage then, but I don't see any other problem. I've brought all kinds of liquor home from trips- but not a full keg of course! I've never had an issue with beer, wine, or hard liquor on domestic trips with it in my luggage.

 

[Jayfro21]

I just came home from the Caribbean with 12 bottles of rum in my checked luggage, granted it was distributed b/w 4 pieces of luggage.

Jason

 

[Cape Brewing]

Something tells me they would pull a large cylindrical metal container that could be under pressure off a plane.

... put it this way... if they don't... I'm going o cut down on my flights.

 

[shecky]

Something tells me they would pull a large cylindrical metal container that could be under pressure off a plane.

... put it this way... if they don't... I'm going o cut down on my flights.

+1. That thing would arouse all kinds of suspicion, thankfully. Plus, the way they handle bagge I'd be afraid of having beer soaked clothes when I arrived.

 

[Mirilis]

best way to get it there is probably to drive...

 

[whitehotdawn]

Airport security is not that good. But suspicions would probably be raised by transporting a large cylindrical container...

Why don't you just put some of your beer in bottles, perhaps 22oz or 750mL bottles. As others have said, it's hardly a problem to travel with bottles in ones suitcase, I have done it many times (beer, wine, whiskey). The only problem I have encountered is going over the weight limit (which have become much tighter in the past few months along with other bag limitations).

 

[Parker36]

Worst case scenario you will have to do what this guy did:
Airline passenger prefers to chug the vodka rather than give it up - On Deadline - USATODAY.com

I think keg stands in the security line could make the trip infinitely more fun.

 

[STAD]

+1 on the keg stands

 

[Clayton]

just ship it in a big box UPS.
its going to cost a lot but it will get there.
i dont care what the rules are, are you a *****
do it if you want your home brew, if not theres always naty lite ice.

 

[DutchK9]

If the lid popped open, I could only imagine the mess.
Sounds like a bad idea to me.

 

[navysnail]

yeah, they will open that thing up. its a stainless cylinder filled with an unknown liquid, for all security knows, it could be gasoline or some other potentially flamable/explosive/hazardous liquid. plus, due to the pressure and temperature changes, if that thing were to leak there would be some pissed off people.

 

[bad coffee]

ship it ground.

either do it right, or chance going to jail for shipping a full metal container full of unknown liquid. (liek others have said.)


B

 

[homebrewer_99]

I've brought back over 20 5 liter minikegs from Germany over the years and nary a drop was spilled...

 

[Mustangj]

Put it on a Gray Hound bus.

 

[conpewter]

I would probably use the BMBF to counter-pressure fill ten 2 liter bottles and pack those instead. You get the saftey of plastic. Customs can see that it is beer inside (Or leave the mountain dew labels on the bottles if a pale ale etc.) and it is less likely to break than glass would be.

 

[Chriso]

+1 to plastic soda bottles. Less risk, less heavy, easier to hide in luggage.
Good idea conpewter!