MarkBastard
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Thought I'd make a thread on the party keg setup I'm working on.
It's a mini wheelie bin I bought from Super Cheap Auto for $40, and then that very same day saw in KMart and a camping shop for $25
The tap is sourced from this forum and I'll be getting a tap handle that way too! I bought a soda stream bottle from KMart yesterday and an adapter off Ebay yesterday.
Now I need a bit of help with insulating the inside. I've come up with a few different options.
1 - Don't insulate at all. Fill with ice as is and don't worry too much about it melting in the sun etc.
2 - Insulate just the internal walls with a cut up camping mat.
3 - Use a bucket to house the actual keg, and some pipe to make a place to slide the soda stream bottle into, and then use expanding foam everywhere else to fully insulate the inside and have neat compartments to place the keg and co2 bottle.
4 - As above but just buy a big block of foam and cut out the holes to house the keg and co2 bottle.
5 - Either 3 or 4, but do it even nicer, with a little runoff tube from the soda stream compartment to the keg compartment so any stray ice melts back into the main area, and build a box around the inside of the tap that you can fill with ice so that it sort of works like a flooded font.
I'm looking for input on the above because I don't know if I'm trying to over-engineer this thing or not. Anyone have any experience with how long ice would last in something like this on a hot day, possibly even in direct sunlight?
I did a test run the other day without any ice, inside, and the tap had condensation on it after two pours. Looks like the beer chills the tap and as such it gave me the idea of making a 'flooded style' tap by covering the shank in a little ice compartment.
It's a mini wheelie bin I bought from Super Cheap Auto for $40, and then that very same day saw in KMart and a camping shop for $25
The tap is sourced from this forum and I'll be getting a tap handle that way too! I bought a soda stream bottle from KMart yesterday and an adapter off Ebay yesterday.
Now I need a bit of help with insulating the inside. I've come up with a few different options.
1 - Don't insulate at all. Fill with ice as is and don't worry too much about it melting in the sun etc.
2 - Insulate just the internal walls with a cut up camping mat.
3 - Use a bucket to house the actual keg, and some pipe to make a place to slide the soda stream bottle into, and then use expanding foam everywhere else to fully insulate the inside and have neat compartments to place the keg and co2 bottle.
4 - As above but just buy a big block of foam and cut out the holes to house the keg and co2 bottle.
5 - Either 3 or 4, but do it even nicer, with a little runoff tube from the soda stream compartment to the keg compartment so any stray ice melts back into the main area, and build a box around the inside of the tap that you can fill with ice so that it sort of works like a flooded font.
I'm looking for input on the above because I don't know if I'm trying to over-engineer this thing or not. Anyone have any experience with how long ice would last in something like this on a hot day, possibly even in direct sunlight?
I did a test run the other day without any ice, inside, and the tap had condensation on it after two pours. Looks like the beer chills the tap and as such it gave me the idea of making a 'flooded style' tap by covering the shank in a little ice compartment.
