Keg system for $100, too good to be true?

[Pivot]

I'm too new to kegging to give you a real good perspective, but one tip I was given that I'm beginning to appreciate, was to have 1 more gas line than tap. That way you can always have one keg a few weeks into carbing when the other goes dead. I can only imagine that this is even more important with just one tap. ...and, the beauty is, as long as you've got the space for the other keg in the kegerator, the one extra gas line is dirt cheap.

unfortunately my fridge is just barely big enough to even hold the one keg, so thats not all that possible for me... Now im getting worried, how long will it take me to get the next keg going after the first one runs dry?

 

[mike1978]

Pivot-
You should send that single tower back that you paid $140 and check out ebay. They have brand new two faucet towers for as low as $70, now thats a good deal.

 

[Pivot]

Pivot-
You should send that single tower back that you paid $140 and check out ebay. They have brand new two faucet towers for as low as $70, now thats a good deal.

oh its not just the tower, its like the full kegerator conversion kit including a corny and a 5# CO2 tank.

 

[Sounds]

unfortunately my fridge is just barely big enough to even hold the one keg, so thats not all that possible for me... Now im getting worried, how long will it take me to get the next keg going after the first one runs dry?

if you have 2 kegs just brew up a batch and keg it, occasionally pull the gas line off the tapped keg and put it on the standby, to carb it.

 

[HOP-HEAD]

unfortunately my fridge is just barely big enough to even hold the one keg, so thats not all that possible for me... Now im getting worried, how long will it take me to get the next keg going after the first one runs dry?

A week until it's drinkable, 2-3 weeks before it's "right".... the way I do it. Shorter if you up the gas as many do, I just haven't yet seen the need. I just set it and forget it.

If I was limited to space for one, though, I'd spend more time reading up on natural carbing in the keg. That way you could transfer it into the keg a few weeks ahead of running dry, toss in some yeast, and store as you normally would for bottles... once you run out of beer in the kegerator, the replacement would be ready as soon as you cooled it down... or something close, don't take my word on the details, I've never done it.

 

[Pivot]

A week until it's drinkable, 2-3 weeks before it's "right".... the way I do it. Shorter if you up the gas as many do, I just haven't yet seen the need. I just set it and forget it.

If I was limited to space for one, though, I'd spend more time reading up on natural carbing in the keg. That way you could transfer it into the keg a few weeks ahead of running dry, toss in some yeast, and store as you normally would for bottles... once you run out of beer in the kegerator, the replacement would be ready as soon as you cooled it down... or something close, don't take my word on the details, I've never done it.

I thought I read somewhere that there is a way to have a newly kegged batch carbed in like a day. is this true?

 

[Rushis]

Carbed, yes. Conditioned, no.

Look at the Force Carbing sticky for the burst carbing methods.

 

[JesseRC]

I thought I read somewhere that there is a way to have a newly kegged batch carbed in like a day. is this true?

I would not do shake method on your first keg. Trust me, you want your first experience with kegging to be a good one. Nothing worse than troubleshooting a foam issue on your first keg. Just set it to serving pressure and forget it, or drink it as its carbing , no big deal.

 

[Sounds]

I would not do shake method on your first keg. Trust me, you want your first experience with kegging to be a good one. Nothing worse than troubleshooting a foam issue on your first keg. Just set it to serving pressure and forget it, or drink it as its carbing , no big deal.

i force carb'd my first keg, turned out fine...i didn't push it all the way to carb level though. was fully carb'd within the first way doing a partial force carb.

 

[HOP-HEAD]

i force carb'd my first keg, turned out fine...i didn't push it all the way to carb level though. was fully carb'd within the first way doing a partial force carb.

I think what he's trying to get at is the fact that simply setting the keg to 10-12 psi (or more precisely to the style and temp as applicable) and leaving it alone for a week or two or three should be stressed as the most desirable, simplest, easiest to master method. If someone wants beer fast later, fine, but this page is over-run with the "my beer is foamy", "I shook it now it foams", and/or "I set it at 30 psi and shook the crap out of it" threads to choke a horse.....

 

[Pivot]

I think what he's trying to get at is the fact that simply setting the keg to 10-12 psi (or more precisely to the style and temp as applicable) and leaving it alone for a week or two or three should be stressed as the most desirable, simplest, easiest to master method. If someone wants beer fast later, fine, but this page is over-run with the "my beer is foamy", "I shook it now it foams", and/or "I set it at 30 psi and shook the crap out of it" threads to choke a horse.....

Ok, so doing things properly, my first kegged batch should be ready after about 10 days? I guess thats not so bad, better then 3 weeks in the bottle.