how to modify a Mr. Beer spigot

[gmaupin]

All Right went through the sticky no help in this area I have A couple of mr. beer kegs but hate the spicket my question is how can i modify that drill it to fit the better ones you can find at the LHBS pics would be great

 

[Revvy]

THere is info buried in the Mr Beer sticky...I put it there myself. But one of our own members Chubby Kid Brewery, did a great DIY here http://sites.google.com/site/chubbykidhomebrew/Home/equipment/mr-beer-keg-modification

 

[gmaupin]

great info thanks oh and I only plan on using MB to brew Ed's Applevine in it I have better equipment for beer

 

[Revvy]

great info thanks oh and I only plan on using MB to brew Ed's Applevine in it I have better equipment for beer

Many of us still keep our brown kegs...It's no better or worse than any other fermenter. It's just a tool, and it's the brewer that determines of good or bad comes out of it.

It's great for small test batches and can even be used to lager in a normal home fridge for people who don't have a dedicated one.

Also many extract stovetop brewers get their first taste of all grain brewing on their stove top fermenting in that and using an unmodified 2 gallon cooler, or even chubby boys mini keg lauter ton http://sites.google.com/site/chubbykidhomebrew/Home/equipment/mini-keg-lauter-tun

So it's not something to think is somehow less than any other tool of ours.

 

[C4PNJ4ZZ]

It's great for small test batches and can even be used to lager in a normal home fridge for people who don't have a dedicated one.

WOAH! I never thought of that! My college roommate gave me a Mr. beer keg when we were moving out. It has sat in my brew closet unused ever since. That is an absolutely fabulous idea. I can comfortably mash 6 lbs of grain on my stove, which would be perfect for my first all-grain lager.

You've given some helpful information in the past when I was just starting... but you've outdone yourself.

 

[Revvy]

WOAH! I never thought of that! My college roommate gave me a Mr. beer keg when we were moving out. It has sat in my brew closet unused ever since. That is an absolutely fabulous idea. I can comfortably mash 6 lbs of grain on my stove, which would be perfect for my first all-grain lager.

You've given some helpful information in the past when I was just starting... but you've outdone yourself.

I did a whole primer and posted a bunch of AG recipe for the mr beer in the mr beer thread.....People tie the plastic keg too heavily with the ingredients that went into it.

Forgetting it is a perfectly serviceable, low profile 2.5 gallon fermenter. If you can make pretty crappy kit beers in it, what's do say that you can't make GREAT beer in it.

 

[Nova5]

You could pick up the new Mr. Beer spigot. It is the lock open style, and ready to accept a bottling wand stuck into its hole.



Why does that sound dirty?

 

[webnmar]

+1 on the new spigot.

A few orders ago, I bought the replacement spigots, plus a spare. They work great. Releatively cheap also, given the cost of shipping on extract cans as part of the order

I have found, though, now I almost never use the spigot. Only for samples. I have a bottling bucket, and prime the whole batch and bottle from the bucket and not with dry sugar in the bottles directly. I get more consistent carbonation that way.