English Beer Pumps
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Hi Tony,
Try these two links as a starting point-
www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12552&hl=
www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9510&hl=beer+engine
Cheers,
Rukh.
Try these two links as a starting point-
www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12552&hl=
www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9510&hl=beer+engine
Cheers,
Rukh.
Hey Tony. Yes you can hook them up to your keg. And yes the beer is carbonated, but only to about half the normal carbonation you'd do for a normal ale or lager.
Check out the Show Us Your Beer Engines topic for some pics on mine all connected up.
Beers,
Doc
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thanks doc, they all look great.
I would be able to have a keg in my chest freezer and run it from a seperate regulator at a lower pressure just to replace gas in the headspace right
I could tuck it into a corner and insulate it to keep it a bit warmer too.
Im thinking of getting one now.
the 2 taps in the flooded font will have a house pale type lager or ale, one little corny with something strong like Bock, IPA, smoked lager ect and real ale off to the side
mmmmmm sounds great.
Will have to get the font up and running first but its on the to do list
cheers
I would be able to have a keg in my chest freezer and run it from a seperate regulator at a lower pressure just to replace gas in the headspace right
I could tuck it into a corner and insulate it to keep it a bit warmer too.
Im thinking of getting one now.
the 2 taps in the flooded font will have a house pale type lager or ale, one little corny with something strong like Bock, IPA, smoked lager ect and real ale off to the side
mmmmmm sounds great.
Will have to get the font up and running first but its on the to do list
cheers
Feeding gas to a keg at low pressure may work, but I haven't tried it, especially over an extended period of time.
Ideally you would want a cask breather between your keg and gas regulator. That way it would only allow gas into the keg when beer is drawn off via the Beer Engine and a vacum is created in the keg. It should also stop the potential for any over carbonation of beer that would result in glasses of foam, instead of a great real ale.
We did a bulk buy of Cask Breathers last year from a Scottish company called ScotBev from memory.
Beers,
Doc
Ideally you would want a cask breather between your keg and gas regulator. That way it would only allow gas into the keg when beer is drawn off via the Beer Engine and a vacum is created in the keg. It should also stop the potential for any over carbonation of beer that would result in glasses of foam, instead of a great real ale.
We did a bulk buy of Cask Breathers last year from a Scottish company called ScotBev from memory.
Beers,
Doc
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"Hi all.
Just wondering if anyone can tell me how these things work and what is required to make them work?
cheers"
Tony,
They work thru a series of one way valves and a piston arrangement.
The movement of the handle pulls a piston up and creating a vacuum and pulling the beer from the keg. Upon righting the handle depresses the piston forcing the beer thru a valve in the piston and, being blocked by the valve its passed thru, then trapping it above the piston. On the next pull on the handle it passes the beer thru the 'goose neck' and 'sparkler tip'(if it has one), and pulling the next half/quarter/pint up into the engine body(piston arrangement).
As Doc has mentioned a 'breather' is required to keep the head space in the keg filled with Co2. I feel a reg set at low pressure would allow the beer to be forced thru the beer engine and out the tip and filling your drip tray with beer.
The breather only allows one atmosphere of Co2 pressure into the keg/cask when a vacuum is created when you draw off a pint, so MAYBE even a change in atmospheric pressure may give you a 'drippy tip'
and we wouldn't want to hear about that, would we!!
Just wondering if anyone can tell me how these things work and what is required to make them work?
cheers"
Tony,
They work thru a series of one way valves and a piston arrangement.
The movement of the handle pulls a piston up and creating a vacuum and pulling the beer from the keg. Upon righting the handle depresses the piston forcing the beer thru a valve in the piston and, being blocked by the valve its passed thru, then trapping it above the piston. On the next pull on the handle it passes the beer thru the 'goose neck' and 'sparkler tip'(if it has one), and pulling the next half/quarter/pint up into the engine body(piston arrangement).
As Doc has mentioned a 'breather' is required to keep the head space in the keg filled with Co2. I feel a reg set at low pressure would allow the beer to be forced thru the beer engine and out the tip and filling your drip tray with beer.
The breather only allows one atmosphere of Co2 pressure into the keg/cask when a vacuum is created when you draw off a pint, so MAYBE even a change in atmospheric pressure may give you a 'drippy tip'
and we wouldn't want to hear about that, would we!!
