Connecting A Disconnect To Water Hose

[crozdog]

Hi guys,

I'm looking at how I can connect my garden hose to a keg coupler to simplify the washing out of kegs. I have a coupler to which I can connect 1/4" barb fittings or standard ball locks (I have both). So what is the easiest way to connect a 12mm garden hose to this setup?

Options I can think of are:
1. Using a MFL/flare fitting ball lock disconnect & fitting it with a 1/4" to 19mm adaptor thereby allowing a standard garden quick release tap fitting to be fitted
2. Use a 12mm to 1/4" adaptor between the 12mm hose & a short length of 1/4' tubing that connects to the barb fitting

Any other options, comments or suggestions are most welcome including leads on where i could get a 1/4" to 19mm adaptor.

Thanks guys

Philip

 

[pint of lager]

Take a sample of your tubing and your garden hose to any decent plumbing or water shop and tell them you want to join the two together and what pressure you want to run. They will sell you the adapter.

By water shop, I mean a shop that sells pumps, hoses and fittings for rural water supplies.

For another way of cleaning kegs:

Empty and rinse your keg.

Add a teaspoon or two of your favourite stainless cleaner.

Add a kettle of boiling water.

Put lid on.

Shake. This pressurises the keg.

Depress poppet on liquid out post with a screwdriver or nail. The internal pressure from the shaken hot water forces cleaning and boiling water up the dip tube.

Turn keg upside down.

Depress poppet on gas poppet. Boiling water and cleaner come through gas dip tube.
WARNING, WHEN YOU DEPRESS THE POPPET, HOT WATER AND CLEANING FLUID SQUIRT OUT. DO NOT GET THIS IN YOUR EYE.

Wait 10 minutes, shaking keg every so often.

Empty out cleaner and rinse thoroughly.

Use another kettle of boiling water, shake, depress the liquid poppet, turn upside down and depress the gas poppet. This rinses the dip tubes.

Drain.

Final rinse with your favourite sanitiser. Drain.

Ready to fill with your beer.

If the keg is really grotty, you will have to disassemble everything.

I call this Doc's method of cleaning kegs. Thanks Doc.

 

[crozdog]

Hi POL, thanks for your reply, i probably didn't explain myself too well.

I am referring to 50l commercial type stainless vessles, not the 18l cornie kegs we all use. I already use a similar practice to what you suggest for cleaning my cornies, but would like to do a similar thing on the larger containers without taking the ball valve / spear apart.

I should have titled the post "connecting a garden hose to a keg coupler".

Sorry for any confusion.

 

[FNQ Bunyip]

Crozy , you will need to remove the one way valve from your keg coupler so you can send fluid back in the beer out . I set up a second coupler just for cleaning and refilling.

Use the 50's 3 or 4 times and exchange so as they get a regular service as fresh kegs are ezy to clean without removing all the bits.

I found a nut and tail type fitting that fit the threds on my coupler in a mates plumbing boxes of fittings..

:beer:

 

[crozdog]

Crozy , you will need to remove the one way valve from your keg coupler so you can send fluid back in the beer out . I set up a second coupler just for cleaning and refilling.

Use the 50's 3 or 4 times and exchange so as they get a regular service as fresh kegs are ezy to clean without removing all the bits.

I found a nut and tail type fitting that fit the threds on my coupler in a mates plumbing boxes of fittings..

:beer:

FNQ,

Thanks fo the info. You were the one who had inspired me to do this after reading of your "use & return" technique :super: h34r:

I was looking at filling the napisan/rinse water/iodophor in through the gas in connection. Would that work or is there a 1 way valve in the gas circuit in the top of the keg?

I have a "nut & tail" type fitting for the coupler but it is only 1/4 inch for beer /gas line (hence my question originally). Does anyone know if you can get the "tail" with a 1/2" barb?

Beers

philip

 

[warrenlw63]

Eureka!!

Found it... Try here

Hope this helps. :beerbang:

Warren -

 

[crozdog]

Eureka!!

Found it... Try here

Hope this helps. :beerbang:

Warren -

Thanks for the link Warren. :beer:

 

[FNQ Bunyip]

I was looking at filling the napisan/rinse water/iodophor in through the gas in connection. Would that work or is there a 1 way valve in the gas circuit in the top of the keg?

Nothing in the keg top to stop anything going in or out , you will need to have the beer out open to vent air as you fill with your cleaner. I just found that it was ezyest to fill from the beer out, also less chance of oxygenating the beer by filling from the bottom. Turn the keg upside down with the hose on the beer out and the water/cleaner will run out the gas in. let drain after your no rince. stand back up the right way and fill though the beer out .

I have a "nut & tail" type fitting for the coupler but it is only 1/4 inch for beer /gas line (hence my question originally). Does anyone know if you can get the "tail" with a 1/2" barb? Yes you can.


Hope that all makes some sort of sence.. Good luck with it its very handy to have 50s in stock

Beers

philip

 

[crozdog]

FNQ,

thanks for the clarification, it makes perfect sense.

I had been thinking about filling with wash or sanitising solution through the gas inlet, & filling with beer through the beer outlet but your way is much better. I was actually looking at a 50 & the coupler last night & was thinking about how it would go to clean upside down & sure enough that's what you do!! Do you just stick a funnel in the end of the hose to get no rinse into the keg?

Now to find a "tail" with a 1/2" barb, remove the 1 way ball from the couple & I'm away. B)

Beers

Crozdog

 

[crozdog]

Guys,

i found this link on the probrewer site which basically says to do what FNQ recommends/does ie put the keg upside down & pump through the beer out with the 1 way restrictor removed & allow to drain through the gas out.

 

[Barramundi]

Guys,

i found this link on the probrewer site which basically says to do what FNQ recommends/does ie put the keg upside down & pump through the beer out with the 1 way restrictor removed & allow to drain through the gas out.

i know the commercial brewerys do them upside down , i think they pum some kind of caustic through them though and they have a nice carasel type machine to do them heaps at once .... philip what kind of kegs are you using cub or tooheys type ?

 

[crozdog]

i know the commercial brewerys do them upside down , i think they pum some kind of caustic through them though and they have a nice carasel type machine to do them heaps at once .... philip what kind of kegs are you using cub or tooheys type ?

Ned,
That link talked about caustic washing, but that is not something I'm that keen to attempt. :unsure:

FWIW, I have a CUB coupler
Philip

 

[FNQ Bunyip]

yes funnel on a hose to add any cleaner/sanitizer. swish roll around the back yard ect ect then upsidedown on a borrowed milk crate with your hose conected to rince..

As for CUB/XXXX dosent matter I have both samething applies..

I've never used any caustic just nappi san then a pink wash then a no rince, drip drain for a few minutes and fill . Probly dont need the 3 step sanitization but that s the way I did it ...


Couplers are going much cheeper nowday s on ebay than when I got all my kit. Set one up as your cleaner /filler and leave the other one for dispensing ...

:beer: