Starting a new thread because the recent "going nitrogen" thread is almost impossible to find in less than quarter of an hour due to crappy search functions. Also this question wasn't raised therein.
I have a 3 tap font kegmate. I'm going nitrogen mix on one font which will involve buying a nitro reg, separate line in, stout tap etc. It will also necessitate me hiring an additional nitro cylinder from BOC.
Now, whenever I see nitro mentioned, the next sentence is always "of course you will need to buy a stout tap as well".
Obviously the stout tap is required to give the creamy Guinness / kilkenny/ UK "smoothflow" results in the glass.
Questions:
Pubs use pub gas mixture to push the beer to the bars and they don't seem to have a problem and only fit a stout tap for Guinness etc.
If it's ok to run your normal brews on nitro and serve on normal taps then it would be far cheaper and easier just to connect nitro to my existing system and replace one of the current taps with a stout tap for the creamy brewz. The stout tap just screws onto the font same as the "normal" ones.
I have a 3 tap font kegmate. I'm going nitrogen mix on one font which will involve buying a nitro reg, separate line in, stout tap etc. It will also necessitate me hiring an additional nitro cylinder from BOC.
Now, whenever I see nitro mentioned, the next sentence is always "of course you will need to buy a stout tap as well".
Obviously the stout tap is required to give the creamy Guinness / kilkenny/ UK "smoothflow" results in the glass.
Questions:
- What is the serving pressure in the system, about the same as CO2? e.g. 60 -80 kpa whatever?
- If so then clearly the ordinary taps aren't going to burst asunder or leak or something
- so what would the result be serving, say a lager or APA, on nitrogen but through an ordinary tap not a stout tap?
Pubs use pub gas mixture to push the beer to the bars and they don't seem to have a problem and only fit a stout tap for Guinness etc.
If it's ok to run your normal brews on nitro and serve on normal taps then it would be far cheaper and easier just to connect nitro to my existing system and replace one of the current taps with a stout tap for the creamy brewz. The stout tap just screws onto the font same as the "normal" ones.