Corny to sanke fittings

[RickyP]

I'm providing some of the beer for my bros wedding and am a bit stumped as how to serve from my cornies at the bar (which normally has sanke kegs).

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

[Ralph]

If the fittings have hoses can you not just undo the hoses off the Sanke and put them onto your cornys fittings?

I dont think there would be a converter that would do the job easily? 

Other option is to transfer the beer from the cornies into Sankes?

[RickyP]

True, thanks Ralph.

Yeah that's a point transferring to Sankes. Unfortunately I don't have any, and I guess I'd need new fittings for my CO2 canister too?

Mmm, hopefully they don't mind me taking their hoses apart to change to the corny fittings.

[Ralph]

just have a look and make sure the tails/hose ID are the same on the sanke and corny fittings before you start tho!

[vdog]

You could always take the ghetto option and just use a picnic tap? Or use it as a good excuse to get a nice beer gun...

[Chris Mills]

It will depend on how the bar's lines are attached to their keg couplers. If they use John-Guest fittings you can quite easily make up some adapters using corny connectors, some vinyl tubing, John Guest tube to hose and equal connectors.

http://www.ultraflow.co.nz/cs/prodList.asp?idCategory=24&TestTr...

If they've used single-use clamps to hold their hoses in place then you might just try holding your face right and asking if they'd mind re-attaching the hoses afterwards.

[RickyP]

Cheers guys. I'll find out what type & ID they use and go from there.

And as a backup I can use my taps, it just seems way nicer being able to tie into their lines and leave the kegs in their chiller. Will see how it goes.

Thanks

[Pilgrim]

Check these out:

http://loveofalpha.blogspot.co.nz/2007/09/how-i-converted-danby-dkc...

http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/brewing/kegging/draft-systems/co...

[John S.]

Do you guys reckon that those bits off Northern Brewer will fit NZ sanke keg fittings? I am just not sure if we use metric and they use imperial, or if they're the same all around the world?

[Chris Mills]

Those fittings should work here as well as over there. The beer and gas lines may differ if you are trying to fit this into a bar which already has kegs up and running. If you are running new gas and beer lines then you can easily make sure it all goes together nicely.