Thirsty Boy
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A Guide to Making and Using Cheap Pressure Sprayer Party Kegs
Everyone loves a party keg!! It just makes you feel great when you bung down your eski at a BBQ; and instead of pulling out a stubbie of insipid macro lager like everyone else, you pull out a tap and pour yourself a frothy glass of your finest hand made beer. Who wouldnt want to be able to do that? Certainly not me..
But those little 9-12 liter stainless kegs are expensive, bloody expensive. Too much for me to justify the expense! So whats a homebrewer to do? Build one out of completely unrelated objects, for next to nothing of course! And thats just what I did.
After seeing a bunch of other peoples ideas and designs, I fashioned a standard plastic garden pressure sprayer into a perfectly functional 6L party keg. It worked a treat. At a later date I showed my toy to a fellow AHB member (Spillsmostofit) and he decided he would build one too. Spills improved on my design considerably, and when he was done, he had come up with an elegant, effective and versatile party keg or small keg replacement system.
We thought the thing was a solid and economical enough design that it could and should be shared with a wider audience; so we ran a Party Keg Building Workshop at Grain and Grape here in Melbourne. It was a pretty successful day and 15 punters went home with finished party kegs. But of course a lot of AHB members dont live in Melbourne, or couldnt make it on the day, so we got a lot of requests for a written guide on how to build and use one of these little beauties. And finally, here it is.
It will be split into two attachments in pdf format. One describing how to make the kegs, the other describing the various different ways the kegs can be used. I will try to include links to other information that might be useful as well.
Of course, this isnt the only way to go about building a party keg system, but its the way Spills and I do it and it works. After reading the guides and spending a bit of time in your workshop, you too could have a versatile party keg set-up like this one.
This is the Guide to Building a party Keg
View attachment Keg_Construction.pdf
This is the guide to Using the party Keg
View attachment Using_your_Party_Keg.pdf
This will be very useful to you
View attachment brewing_reckoner.pdf
Also check out the articles in the Article section on Balancing a Keg System and Kegging for Beginners
Happy Building and Drinking
Thirsty
Everyone loves a party keg!! It just makes you feel great when you bung down your eski at a BBQ; and instead of pulling out a stubbie of insipid macro lager like everyone else, you pull out a tap and pour yourself a frothy glass of your finest hand made beer. Who wouldnt want to be able to do that? Certainly not me..
But those little 9-12 liter stainless kegs are expensive, bloody expensive. Too much for me to justify the expense! So whats a homebrewer to do? Build one out of completely unrelated objects, for next to nothing of course! And thats just what I did.
After seeing a bunch of other peoples ideas and designs, I fashioned a standard plastic garden pressure sprayer into a perfectly functional 6L party keg. It worked a treat. At a later date I showed my toy to a fellow AHB member (Spillsmostofit) and he decided he would build one too. Spills improved on my design considerably, and when he was done, he had come up with an elegant, effective and versatile party keg or small keg replacement system.
We thought the thing was a solid and economical enough design that it could and should be shared with a wider audience; so we ran a Party Keg Building Workshop at Grain and Grape here in Melbourne. It was a pretty successful day and 15 punters went home with finished party kegs. But of course a lot of AHB members dont live in Melbourne, or couldnt make it on the day, so we got a lot of requests for a written guide on how to build and use one of these little beauties. And finally, here it is.
It will be split into two attachments in pdf format. One describing how to make the kegs, the other describing the various different ways the kegs can be used. I will try to include links to other information that might be useful as well.
Of course, this isnt the only way to go about building a party keg system, but its the way Spills and I do it and it works. After reading the guides and spending a bit of time in your workshop, you too could have a versatile party keg set-up like this one.
This is the Guide to Building a party Keg
View attachment Keg_Construction.pdf
This is the guide to Using the party Keg
View attachment Using_your_Party_Keg.pdf
This will be very useful to you
View attachment brewing_reckoner.pdf
Also check out the articles in the Article section on Balancing a Keg System and Kegging for Beginners
Happy Building and Drinking
Thirsty
