50 Ltr Keg

[wombil]

G'day All,
Does anyone brew into 50 ltr used brewery kegs and how can they be cleaned properly.I was thinking of cutting a hole in with a bolt down cap.Anythings possible I suppose.
Thanks for looking.

 

[Charst]

Hey I use a 50 litre shorter fatter keg as a kettle and it works well. cutting the hole with an angle grinder was suprisingly easy given you take your time and cut a guide indent before trying to actually cut through. Also make sure before you do anything that all the pressure is out of the KEG!
When it came to cleaning i used PBW and a green scourer and no problems.

 

[fcmcg]

G'day All,
Does anyone brew into 50 ltr used brewery kegs and how can they be cleaned properly.I was thinking of cutting a hole in with a bolt down cap.Anythings possible I suppose.
Thanks for looking.

I'm guessing that when you say brew into , you don't mean use as your brewery vessels , you mean use them to keg your finished fermenting beer. Plenty of ppl do. I don't but I know heaps of guys who do .
Once you have de gassed the keg , you take out the spear and then use something like pbw or napisan or oxyper..a good soak and spray. And rinse and they are good to be sanitized and used again
Cheers
Ferg

 

[fcmcg]

G'day All,
Does anyone brew into 50 ltr used brewery kegs and how can they be cleaned properly.I was thinking of cutting a hole in with a bolt down cap.Anythings possible I suppose.
Thanks for looking.

I'm guessing that when you say brew into , you don't mean use as your brewery vessels , you mean use them to keg your finished fermenting beer. Plenty of ppl do. I don't but I know heaps of guys who do .
Once you have de gassed the keg , you take out the spear and then use something like pbw or napisan or oxyper..a good soak and spray. And rinse and they are good to be sanitized and used again
Cheers
Ferg

 

[wombil]

Yes Ferg that is what I meant.The keg I have has a sort of spring loaded sealing cap in the top.Can this be taken out to get cleaning stuff into the keg itself?

I'm guessing that when you say brew into , you don't mean use as your brewery vessels , you mean use them to keg your finished fermenting beer. Plenty of ppl do. I don't but I know heaps of guys who do .
Once you have de gassed the keg , you take out the spear and then use something like pbw or napisan or oxyper..a good soak and spray. And rinse and they are good to be sanitized and used again
Cheers
Ferg

 

[katzke]

Yes Ferg that is what I meant.The keg I have has a sort of spring loaded sealing cap in the top.Can this be taken out to get cleaning stuff into the keg itself?

Couple different kinds. Some screw out some need a special tool. none of them are easy for a tool impaired person.

Some guys just clean with a coupling and turn the keg upside down flowing cleaner in that way. The risk of infection is higher that way.

Unless you really want 50 liters of the same beer return the keg for deposit and buy come soda kegs with the easy open top.