Suggestions on what form to serve in

[Cerveceria]

Evening everyone,

My wife and I are having our baby shower this Saturday. Well *coughs* I'm having a BBQ and the shower just happens to be at the same place and time.

My predicament is as follows:

The batch for the shower is currently in the fermenter and ready to be transferred and carbonated. Since, I've switched to kegging I've never really had to serve beer outside of pulling on one of the kegerator taps. My kegerator is not mobile and I'm forced to find a way to bring the beer to the event minus the fridge.

I'm not sure if I should build a jockey box, buy/build a beer gun and bottle after force carbonating or just put the keg in a large, newly purchased, trash can with ice and picnic tap. As time is running out, any suggestions would be helpful.

Cheers!

 

[muels]

Anything that'll hold ice for a bit will work. You can purchase a paintball cylinder and adapter if you don't want to lug around your co2 bottle as well. Picnic tap should be fine for what you're doing.


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[bobeer]

I can't find the pic but I'll try to describe what I did for the very same event. Wife had a shower inside, I had a bbq outside.

I had just built a dart cabinet and had the negative cutout of one of the doors. I drilled a 1/2" hole towards the back of the wood so a 3/16" beer line could fit through it. I had a single faucet beer tap on hand that I attached to the piece of spare wood then fed the beer line up through it and attached my faucet.
I got a keg bucket from Target once upon a time, I think, for about $5 to put the corny keg in with ice. I took my A-frames legs from the shop and put the spare piece of wood with the tower on the legs and slid the ice bucket with the kegs underneath in-between the A-frame legs. I kept the c02 tank to the side but I could have easily put it in the ice with the kegs. I had 2 kegs and the one tower so I put the lighter beer on first then followed with a hoppy pale ale. Both kegs were already carbonated and ready to go.

Granted I had all this stuff mostly on hand so it cost me almost nothing to make. If anything, maybe this will get your creative juices flowing. Good luck!

Congrats on the kid!!

 

[bobeer]

Here... found the pic. Hope it helps! The only thing that's missing is the ice bucket that was between the legs.

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[Cerveceria]

Thanks for the input guys! I've decided I'll just beer gun a couple of bottles and then just purchase some craft brewed beer from a nearby store. I don't want to have to rush and push out beer I'm not entirely satisfied is ready yet.