Confused & Kegging Questions.

[flairman123]

Thanks for the replies guys.
John, I initially primed with the recommended amount of priming sugar(dextrose) into the bottles,and conditioned for 4 weeks.
Then charged with a CO2 bulb to aid dispensing and all worked great except the beer was very poorly carbonated.
I'll take the advise and stick with the tap a draught and bottles and save for a cornie.
Thanx.

[Garry]

I've been doing some research on the bits and pieces required for kegging. I came across this on Jim's Beer Kit. It's like a home made king keg using a 25L jerry can. The CO2 comes from bicycle tyre refills. It looks interesting and very cheap.

[Ciderhead]

These containers are not pressure rated and are absolute pants at holding anything to do with pressurised gas for the longer term.
Best case all your C02 will be pressurised out through the walls of the container.
Worse case you create a 25L beer bomb and redecorate your living room.

I'm sure I dropped 14 kegs to you yesterday

p.s. to all keg virgins please please never ever ever push your keg to max pressure (which can be up to 7 Bar on the new kegs) holding the connection or standing over them

and now as we all like explosions, its obviously a diffrent type of drum, 3 times wall thickness, designed to be dropped so has stronger top and bottom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjrR_SX4aBg

[Garry]

I'm sure I dropped 14 kegs to you yesterday

Haa! That's why I doing some research.

I still think it's a cool idea. I might give it a go on a 5L or 10L one some time*. You've been in my garage, sure if it sprays beer all over the walls it'll only compliment the sticky floor


*Don't hold your breath!

[AdeFlesk]

I would buy swing top bottles or use reg bottles and a capper.,  and use http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/carbonation.html  to calculate the amount of sugar to for the amount of carbination you need. You wont go wrong then when ready go down the corny route.

[LordEoin]

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