Cracka
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Ohhh... good score! Those 20L kegs are bloody handy!
Yes it is illegal, and I have seen people try to get into them before, not sure anyone has had much luck though.
I wonder how you would get the beer into it?
Its not that unusual a fitting... one of the several sankey type fittings. A bit of googling should lead you to which type of sankey fitting it is (I think they go by letters, A, D, F etc) and from there you should be able to find a walk through on how to remove the spear etc.... But be careful... make sure you de-pressurise the thing properly before you try to take it out, or when it does come out, it will do so in a big hurry and maybe kill you on the way.
I would (if I were to engage in the terrible habbit of illegal keg use, which of course I wouldn't) not bother trying to pull it apart at all... you are going to need the correct type sankey fitting to use it... and you can fill and empty through that.
Don't bother with a really thorough cleaning routine for it... just give it a rinse out and a sanitise, use it a half dozen times, and then ditch it at the same place you "found" it... meanwhile liberating another of the same type, freshly clean and sanitised from the brewery, with nothing worse inside than 500ml of nice sterile Heinekin. Kinda like swap and go, where the brewery does all the hard work of cleaning the keg for you. Which is what I'd be doing if I were using any of the normal 50L sankeys as well.
Thirsty
PS, just saw your last post.... most likely still illegal. Did you get a letter from the brewery stating that they had given/sold the keg to the previous owner?? If not, then its still their property and you potentially could get in trouble for having it.
As deadly said on a similar thread some time ago,
put a $2 coin in the bottom of the well, then action the coupler.
This pushes down the fitting far enough to disengage this security lock. You should then be able to unscrew the keg top.
MHB
because of the size these will make a really good adition to any homebrew setup. Just would still like to know if
they are illegal or not <_<
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