Kegging

[Mike Neilson]

Looking at doing a keg set up, Is it cheaper and easyer to go with the brew craft setup or designing your own set up, and getting the bits from the likes of Craft brewer, etc?
Whats your thoughts?

[Mike Neilson]

Sounds perfect! well to me anyway, do you stick a piece of pipe on the end of your tap and fill from the bottom just like at the temple next to the basin?

[MrC]

Nope, no fancy pipes & tubes for me. Just straight from the tap into the bottle. Just like Stu.

[jt]

I always seem to lose hop flavour when I pour from the tap, I'm often too foamy - but through the picnic tap with added tube to the bottom is ok

[Mike Neilson]

I would be happy with what you have got!! Chuck a 10mm Tube to fill up bottles from the bottom to the top and I reacon you wont even give a shit about pressure!!

I reacon everyone thinks a pint should come to you as fast as the ones at pubs do. But Believe it or not they come out at the same rate as your beer. Heres a test dont drink any water all day go for a run finish it at Charltons and see how long it takes them to pour a pint. Probably the same time as it takes at you Supreme Multi Award Winning Ale House.

And I reacon your right with losing hop, but mine seems to be aroma, here's my thoughts on it and it quite simple, aroma fills head space, head space gets bigger, bigger head space more aroma to fill head space? I dont seem to have this issue with my B.C beers

[MrC]

The only running I do Mike is to the toilet the morning after ingesting too much live yeast. You know what I'm talking about!!!

I'm happy with my picnic taps. I just read that some taps can handle higher pressures and was wondering about it:
Picnic Taps vs Faucet

[jt]

Chuck a 10mm Tube to fill up bottles from the bottom to the top and I reacon you wont even give a shit about pressure!!

I must do that one day - if I didn't bottle condition a few beers every batch I'd probably have done it by now to save on cleaning up the picnic tap

[Reviled]

picnic taps are sposed to be cleaned??

i just flush them with the next keg ;o) The beer is sanitary and theyre kept at serving temp..

[Mike Neilson]

Honestly its your pouring standards lol;), dont blame the picnic taps a good brewer never blames his tools (yarn), hows this I just poured a perfect hefe @ 150kpa with 3 vols of carb!!

[jt]

It's a balance of temp, line length and co2 volume (and adjustment for tap ?)

Though I've seen a few calculations that talk about tap height from the centre of the keg

[Dale]

Hey Guys, Have just got my freezer sorted out with a tempmate for kegging but wanted to know if you guys keep your steel CO2 cylinders in or outside of the fridge? Was wondering if it could start rusting in the dampness inside the fridge?

[jt]

Outside here - so it doesn't take up keg space

[MrC]

I've done both. When I had the bottle in the fridge it immediately became covered in condensation but once the temps equalised it went away. I've heard that some people worry about getting moisture in the regulator but would that mean you have a leak?

I wouldn't worry about it personally. Rust? Yeah maybe a little surface coating on the bottom of the bottle. Paint it if you're worried and make sure it's not sitting in a pool of water.

Safety is the only major concern and that why you get your bottle tested.

That's my 2 cents.