solidute
Active Member
I'll start by stating that I have no issues doing these transfers but looking for an alternative option.
So when I clean my kegs I usually have several to do at once. I rinse all the kegs out best I can with water then start my pbw clean process. All kegs now are empty. First keg gets a few litres of pbw sloshed around, allowed to soak, sloshed around again then I'll charge up with CO2 and transfer to the next keg to repeat the process. Then I'll rinse with water make sure everything is clean the do the process with sanitizer.
The thing that bothers me with this process is that I waste CO2. I also have to lug the kegs from the tap to the keezer and back several times for the cleaning process. It's only back and forth because the CO2 bottle is still attached to the keezer and the tap is 10ish metres away.
So what I'm after is options for what could I use in place of CO2 that I could make to be easily portable, carry enough charge to be transferring enough cleaner and then sanitizer through 2-7 kegs at a time.
I'm not worried about oxidisation of beer as it will always be purged with CO2 before filling, just need an easily rechargable and portable solution. I did think of using my air compressor with a water trap, but it ist portable and is about 30m further away than the CO2 bottle.
So when I clean my kegs I usually have several to do at once. I rinse all the kegs out best I can with water then start my pbw clean process. All kegs now are empty. First keg gets a few litres of pbw sloshed around, allowed to soak, sloshed around again then I'll charge up with CO2 and transfer to the next keg to repeat the process. Then I'll rinse with water make sure everything is clean the do the process with sanitizer.
The thing that bothers me with this process is that I waste CO2. I also have to lug the kegs from the tap to the keezer and back several times for the cleaning process. It's only back and forth because the CO2 bottle is still attached to the keezer and the tap is 10ish metres away.
So what I'm after is options for what could I use in place of CO2 that I could make to be easily portable, carry enough charge to be transferring enough cleaner and then sanitizer through 2-7 kegs at a time.
I'm not worried about oxidisation of beer as it will always be purged with CO2 before filling, just need an easily rechargable and portable solution. I did think of using my air compressor with a water trap, but it ist portable and is about 30m further away than the CO2 bottle.
