two kegs one tap?

[chainsawbrewing]

no this isn't a remake on that two girls one cup video.....

i'm stepping up to 10gallon batches, and also building a bar with a kegerator. i'll be kegging in 5gallon corny kegs.

my question is, is there a cheap, yet reliable/efficient way to hook up two kegs of the same beer, from the same 10 gallon batch to one single tap? so that when one keg runs out, it starts pulling from the second keg, or it pulls from both simaltaniously or whatever?

i was thinking as simple as gas in to two kegs, and then using a stainless "Y" splitter on the two beer outs of each keg into one hose going to a single tap.

i don't know if that would work or not.

anybody tried this, or have any ideas?

thanks.

brian

 

[IrregularPulse]

You put put a beer out dip tube into both posts of one keg. Then have the beer out of the normal keg (gas attached it) going into the gas In post (now with a beer out long diptube) then pushing the beer out the OUT tube to the tap. Once the first keg was empty, you'd have a keg FULL of co2, but it would work. The second beer Out long tip tube in the keg attached to the faucet would prevent splashing while beer moved from one leg to the other.

OR I saw somewhere on here, (couldn't find it on google) a single faucet that had two lines running into the back of it.

 

[Bobby_M]

I'd argue that the only reason you need to daisy chain two kegs or parallel draw from them is if you're having a huge party and you will not be around to swap the QD from a blown keg to the fresh one. You can have both in the kegerator, both on gas (you'll obviously need to split to two gas QD's). The bev out QD will be on one keg until it's empty, then switch it to the other.

If you daisy chain kegs as listed above, both beers need to be carbed already. Also, the problem is that once all the beer in the first keg is gone, you'd really want to pull it out and potentially fill it with your next pipeline beer. You can't really do that easily in a daisy chained setup.

 

[Arkador]

You put put a beer out dip tube into both posts of one keg. Then have the beer out of the normal keg (gas attached it) going into the gas In post (now with a beer out long diptube) then pushing the beer out the OUT tube to the tap. Once the first keg was empty, you'd have a keg FULL of co2, but it would work. The second beer Out long tip tube in the keg attached to the faucet would prevent splashing while beer moved from one leg to the other.

OR I saw somewhere on here, (couldn't find it on google) a single faucet that had two lines running into the back of it.

once the first keg with the gas dip tube was empty, wouldn't the gas be bubbling through the beer about to be dispenced? Wouldn't the beer flowing in kick all the sediment at the bottom of the keg?

 

[conpewter]

I don't see a need to replace the gas dip tube with a liquid one, you'll only be potentially splashing in while running from the first keg, even then it is in a Co2 environment and only a couple inches down to the beer level.

 

[TXCrash]

There would be, as conpewter said, minimal if any splashing. If it concerns you, pull pressure release on front keg till it's obvious the keg is entirely full.

CO2 hooked to back keg. Jumper from liquid out on back keg to CO2 in on front keg. CO2 goes in back keg, forces liquid/ gas into front keg, front keg pushes beer as normal.

Kinda pointless though IMHO unless there are major access issues.

 

[red82mtu]

What about adding check valves to the liquid out fittings of each keg and then running them to a single faucet?

Wouldn't that allow the liquid from each keg to flow out, but once it was empty, keep the other keg from backfilling the empty keg?

No real way to tell if and when a keg was cashed out, but should allow a single 10 gallon batch to be pulled off of one faucet.

 

[Homercidal]

Ghetto version is to 'T' the liquid lines into the faucet and have shutoff valves on them. When one keg kicks, just flip the switch.

I like the method with the out->in better personally. I think it would work very well. The second keg will fill immediately, so there will be no splashing except for when you first give it gas.

 

[McKBrew]

It's pretty easy to build one. Or if you want to spend more money you can buy it.

Cornelius keg ball lock gas to liquid jumper kit: www.kegkits.com
Cornelius Keg JUMPER CONNECTION - eBay (item 320378913029 end time Jul-01-09 21:17:17 PDT)

 

[Cpt_Kirks]

I have seen cornie's daisy chained when serving soda, but haven't heard of anyone doing it for beer.

Still, sauce for the goose...

 

[springer]

In theory if both kegs were hooked up to the same regulator with a splitter and both beer lines were done the same way to the same tap then the beer would flow from each keg at the same rate. Basically 1/2 the amount would flow from each keg.

 

[david_42]

Personally, I'd run one keg; then when that runs out, put the second one online and brew another batch. I've got a jumper and occasionally use it to consolidate kegs. This can result in some unusual blends.