Oxebar Keg?

[GoodTruble]

I wouldn't spend the money. I just use the kegland hand pump attachment to a pet bottle. Any pet bottle works for cleaner.

Also very useful for cleaning lines. You can hold the pet bottle upright to pump liquid/cleaner, then flip upside down to blow air through the line.

 

[matt_m]

Also very useful for cleaning lines. You can hold the pet bottle upright to pump liquid/cleaner, then flip upside down to blow air through the line.

I used this for the first time this weekend and it worked great. Thanks for the tip!

 

[bigboy147]

I have been at them to oxebar 4l here in usa but no luck Morebeer has the 8l (in stock) I have to said that it is a 38mm cap If i remenber right is the size of a glass growler...Morebeer has Ball Lock Adapter Tapping Head for PCO38 Oxebar Mono PET Keg

 

[Wrendelar]

I have 2 of these kegs and they perform as expected, purchased them from MoreBeer with the tapping heads. Each one is roughly 2.2 gallons. These make great pool kegs or beach kegs. They fit perfectly in my backpack cooler plus ice. small CO2 regulator with mini-CO2 "bullets" and a party tap and you're off to the races.

 

[GoodTruble]

I have 4 of the 8L and have been using them for almost 1 year. They have some niche uses, but I now don't expect them to last more than 18 months or 3-4 uses. They get funky after a awhile and are hard to "really" clean out. I recommend only using them for beer you expect to consume within the week, and assume they will not last more than a few uses.

 

[elproducto]

I just picked up a few of these for taking to the cottage/parties, etc. The party pump is what put me over the edge, no need for C02 to push the beer.

Got me thinking, these might be fun to do some pseudo-cask ales in!

 

[ShaneB]

https://patch.com/new-hampshire/portsmouth-nh/osha-fines-redhook-63-500-in-ben-harris-case
I had no idea plastic kegs could be deadly!

"The employee was using a compressed air line to purge liquid from the interior of a plastic keg when the keg exploded, causing parts of it to fatally strike the worker."

I'm still going to get one of these for taking beer to a friends house, looks perfectly portable

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

https://patch.com/new-hampshire/portsmouth-nh/osha-fines-redhook-63-500-in-ben-harris-case
I had no idea plastic kegs could be deadly!

"The employee was using a compressed air line to purge liquid from the interior of a plastic keg when the keg exploded, causing parts of it to fatally strike the worker."

I'm still going to get one of these for taking beer to a friends house, looks perfectly portable

Oxebar cap/hydra has a PVR rated for 37 psi (if I recall)

 

[KegLand]

Oxebar cap/hydra has a PVR rated for 37 psi (if I recall)

I am not sure that is really a good comparison. The plastic kegs referred to in this article were injection molded glass reinforced plastic kegs that are very brittle and they had a tendency to burst in a way that shot out dangerous solid fragments if they were over-pressurised. The kegs had not PRV fitted to them either.

Our kegs are made from PET and during the burst testing we have done they do make a very loud bang when they are burst but they do not fragment in the same way. Also all our kegs have a pressure relief that is well below the burst pressure. The burst pressure is normal between 9-11 bar giving us a substantial safety factor.

If the kegs do get old and scratched it's very easy to fill them with water(NOT GAS) and do a hydro test. We recommend pressurizing them to 6bar for a couple min. If they pass this test then they are safe to keep using them.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I am not sure that is really a good comparison. The plastic kegs referred to in this article were injection molded glass reinforced plastic kegs that are very brittle and they had a tendency to burst in a way that shot out dangerous solid fragments if they were over-pressurised. The kegs had not PRV fitted to them either.

Our kegs are made from PET and during the burst testing we have done they do make a very loud bang when they are burst but they do not fragment in the same way. Also all our kegs have a pressure relief that is well below the burst pressure. The burst pressure is normal between 9-11 bar giving us a substantial safety factor.

If the kegs do get old and scratched it's very easy to fill them with water(NOT GAS) and do a hydro test. We recommend pressurizing them to 6bar for a couple min. If they pass this test then they are safe to keep using them.

Thank you for the clarification.

 

[stealthfixr]

I am not sure that is really a good comparison. The plastic kegs referred to in this article were injection molded glass reinforced plastic kegs that are very brittle and they had a tendency to burst in a way that shot out dangerous solid fragments if they were over-pressurised. The kegs had not PRV fitted to them either.

Our kegs are made from PET and during the burst testing we have done they do make a very loud bang when they are burst but they do not fragment in the same way. Also all our kegs have a pressure relief that is well below the burst pressure. The burst pressure is normal between 9-11 bar giving us a substantial safety factor.

If the kegs do get old and scratched it's very easy to fill them with water(NOT GAS) and do a hydro test. We recommend pressurizing them to 6bar for a couple min. If they pass this test then they are safe to keep using them.

Outstanding customer service, right there! Thank you, Kegland.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Outstanding customer service, right there! Thank you, Kegland.

They clarified for the benefit of their reputation, yet haven’t answered the question about availability of the smaller size that I am aware of. Which BTW is like $5 and out of stock, as compared to $20 when it’s in stock. So, I’m not gushing with praise about that issue.

 

[Yesfan]

https://patch.com/new-hampshire/portsmouth-nh/osha-fines-redhook-63-500-in-ben-harris-case
I had no idea plastic kegs could be deadly!

"The employee was using a compressed air line to purge liquid from the interior of a plastic keg when the keg exploded, causing parts of it to fatally strike the worker."

I'm still going to get one of these for taking beer to a friends house, looks perfectly portable

from the article...........

"According to Edmund Fitzgerald, the U.S. Department of Labor's regional director of public affairs in Boston, Craft Brew Alliance (CBA), now has 15 days to appeal the $63,500 in fines."

Fitzgerald? Wait, what?..........

 

[mac_1103]

The legend lives on...

 

[day_trippr]

[shrug] There are at least 5 "Edmund Fitzgerald"s living in Massachusetts.
I do wonder if they get asked about that often...

Cheers!

 

[mac_1103]

I wonder if they get asked whether they're the Edmund Fitzgerald who is the U.S. Department of Labor's regional director of public affairs in Boston.

 

[Yesfan]

I once worked with a guy named Eddie Murphy and he was whiter than Christmas snow........

 

[ba-brewer]

I had a septic tank installed by Willie Nelson, no braids and he did not do it for song.

 

[fluketamer]

sorry to resurrect an old thread but for anyone still interested in the 4l pet oxebar kegs which i think are still not available, i have been having great success so far with these 2.5 and 3.5 liter pet bottles with kegland's tee piece and carb caps. i found these available in the tri-state area and are $5.99 for the 2.5 and $6.49 for the 3.5 liter. they are very versatile, cheap, easy to use, and compact. so far so good .

 

[khannon]

Hmm.. one might even imagine building some sort of randall out these for pretty short money?

 

[day_trippr]

Neck is kinda tight for stuffing and removing hops compared to a filter housing.

Anyway, have you noticed leaf hops are becoming extinct in the general marketplace?

I don't think pellets will work in the typical Randall, maybe one using a paper element would work, but when I go to YVH and see what they have they've relegated whole cones to a tiny corner of their world (waaay over to the right)...

... and as of today they only have Amarillo, Cashmere, Mt Hood and Strata available...

Randalls may go the way of the Dodo Bird for lack of anything to put in them...

Cheers!

 

[grampska]

I figured I'd throw my two cents. I really like these. Force carbing goes super quick since they're so easy to shake compared to a full size corny or sixtel. And they work great on their side which is what I did because I have a big honking cooler that can probably hold three of them lying down.

The biggest advantage I think is that if you're taking these somewhere and something goes wrong with the CO2 or the dongles, it's simply a giant beer bottle.

I do wish they were 2.5 gallons for the option of easily splitting a 5 gallon batch.

 

[fluketamer]

i am able to get 5 gallons into eight 2.5 liter bottles. or 5 3.5 liter bottles. i can fit them in any fridge or prime them and leave them room temp to carb up then place in fridge as needed.

these are easier than metal kegs for me. only issue i see is cleaning but if they get to a point where i cant clean them or am hesitant i can replace them for 5 or 6 dollars a piece

day tripper i wasnt sure what a randall is but i see now its a flavor infuser right?

 

[day_trippr]

Yup, stuffed full of cones and put in-line between cold keg and faucet.
I have one made from a bog-standard water filter housing that looks like this example:

I used it often when I was growing Chinook, Cascade and Centennial as cones were freakin' everywhere
Since I stopped growing the trend to pellets has been so dominant it'd be difficult to find the hops I use these days to use in a Randall...

Cheers!

 

[windsifter]

sorry to resurrect an old thread but for anyone still interested in the 4l pet oxebar kegs which i think are still not available, i have been having great success so far with these 2.5 and 3.5 liter pet bottles with kegland's tee piece and carb caps. i found these available in the tri-state area and are $5.99 for the 2.5 and $6.49 for the 3.5 liter. they are very versatile, cheap, easy to use, and compact. so far so good .

Where did you get the bottles or what was originally in them? I've browsed the local groceries in San Francisco looking for "good bottles" like the ones you have in your photo but didn't see much.

 

[fluketamer]

In ny/ nj area they sell them at netcost markets. I get them for 5$ for the 2.5 liter and 6$ for the 3.5. the cap is standard soda bottle which fits kegland carb caps and tee piece. it’s filled with kvass a weird sweet low alcoholic bread wine that I don’t care for. you take dark bread and soak it in water to make a "wort" think prison wine but for beer. i pour it down the sink rinse the bottle let them drip dry then sanitize and fill. the plastic doesnt retain the kvas flavor which i was originally concerned about. its only drunk by russians and eastern europeans so unless you have a community near you i think you are unfortunately unlikey to find these amber pet barrel bottles. they are amazing. i had 3 kegs on tap in my rotation. now i have 8. for only 18$ per 3.5 liter pet keg. im surprised some online hbs doesnt offer this system its so cheap. im sure someone could figure out how to source and supply these bottles empty instead of full of kvas. its kind of like bottling but on a large scale with oxygen free purging and transfer. i imagine the thought of plastic may turn some people off but i used to bottle in plastic all the time so it wasnt a big switch for me. i suggest trying to type in kvas 2.5 liter in google images to possibly find a local supplier. they make a 1.5 but that size doesnt fit my needs

just on google now i found the 1.5 liter virginia. they prollly have or can get the bigger bottles.

 

[fluketamer]

i just found them all over san francisco . you guys have a large european community there. european gorumand deli in zip code 94118 has the 2.5 liter bottles im sure they have the 3.5 also.

 

[mac_1103]

im sure someone could figure out how to source and supply these bottles empty instead of full of kvas

Yeah, and they'll probably charge more for the empty bottles than what you're paying for the kvas.

 

[fluketamer]

Yeah, and they'll probably charge more for the empty bottles than what you're paying for the kvas.

williams sells these which are a decent size for potentially using for minikegs or transporting beer. i dont know anything about plastic manufacturing or buying wholesale but if they can make these it would seem they could make the barrel bottles for a similar price. these are less than 5$ each

 

[Drey32]

I have 2 of these kegs and they perform as expected, purchased them from MoreBeer with the tapping heads. Each one is roughly 2.2 gallons. These make great pool kegs or beach kegs. They fit perfectly in my backpack cooler plus ice. small CO2 regulator with mini-CO2 "bullets" and a party tap and you're off to the races.

Can you tell me what backpack cooler you have?