Corny set up

[Jamesbil]

Hi all,

I,m looking to get into corny systems, and I'm trying to find the best price for bits and pieces.
Hombrew company for the kegs, 3 @€103 - 5% club discount,
Get er brewed for disconnects @ €5 each

This regulator? http://www.wholesaleweldingsupplies.ie/index.php?route=product/product&path=47&product_id=428
Looking for a co2 manifold too, or make one up my self. gas fittings?

The price for taps seems to vary alot, I'm after 3 I can mount on a vertical board or even tower type.

Thanks
James

[dcalnan]

Don't get the disconnects from geterbrewed they're the cheap chinese ones, and they're useless. The proper german made CMB ones are the ones you want, the UK homebrew stores sell them for a bit more but it's definitely worth it. The chinese ones I've found don't seal very well and are impossible to remove from the keg posts. I use them for cleaning my kegs only now.

People have been very happy with the HBC kegs, in most cases a good rinse and replace all the seals. As for taps, I've seen them pop up on adverts/dondeal or you could get a three tap tower new from mlh.ie or bti engineering.

[imark]

+1 on buying proper disconnects. Loosing half a keg of beer cos of bad seal is a nightmare. I've also had a cheap gas disconnect shatter when trying to disconnect it from the post.
Worth paying the difference as you can feel the quality of the material.

[ManseMasher]

That regulator is set to show flow rate, not pressure, so no good for you I'm afraid. You need one in bar/psi, not cubic feet per hour (cfh)/litres per minute (lpm) as the one in the link shows.

[auralabuse]

If it's for mixed gas though you can work with it. I have a co2 ref with pressure to properly carbonate. Then I switch to nitro mix with one of these regs to push the beer. It's a matter of trial and error to set it and once you get the right pull at the tap your done.

[Will_D]

Actually the right hand gauge is not a flow meter. They are tubes with a little ball that floats in the gas stream and measures the flow.

It is in fact a low pressure gauge that has been marked with approximate flow rates at a given pressure.

So for example the 12 lpm mark is probably 10 psi
The mark at the 12'0'clock position is say 24 psi.

The flow rates depend on pressure (as indicated by the low pressure gauge and the size of the tubing and nozzles etc that you are using.

Oh and by the way its an Argon regulator so not suirable for CO2 !!

[LordEoin]

Just invest the extra few euro into buying the right equipment.
And if you're looking for fittings, try ro-man.com

[Jamesbil]

Thanks everyone,
Are the HBC disconnects any good? Half price at the moment..

Any of you geniuses come up with a way of serving 3 different beers from the same tap? A 3 way splitter directly behind with on off turn valve on each? Or is it too much messing and risk of contamination?

[Leann ull]

This genius recommends buying 2 more taps, no charge for that

[Leann ull]

1. Remove black disconnect from keg A
2. Place on Keg B
3. Serve

I might have to charge you for that one Patent Pending and all that.

Ok I'd better stop there

[auralabuse]

I wouldn't serve different beers on the same tap. That's just wrong

[auralabuse]

Ps argon regs only work for mixed gas and not co2

[LordEoin]

I wouldn't serve different beers on the same tap. That's just wrong

I always do it. I run a little down the drain to clear the last beer out of the line. it wastes about a shot but it's a small price to pay

[ManseMasher]

It is in fact a low pressure gauge that has been marked with approximate flow rates at a given pressure.

So, it shows approximate flow rates then, not pressure?

[Pheeel]

Less wasteful would be to buy multiple picnic taps and swap the gas disconnect

Or buy a splitter to split gas evenly between the kegs but seeing as you're just getting into it I'd recommend serving one beer at a time. That way you have one serving, one carbonating and a spare. That's what I used to do. Now I have way too many kegs and have up to three serving at once through a splitter and I've currently got three carbonating