Polypins.. Anyone use them?

[wide eyed and legless]

http://www.theplasticman.com.au/default/products.html/64/100/Bottles,-Drums-&-Jerry-Cans/Jerry-Cans

I have got the above, but agree with Sean the cubes are better and if you have a co2 set up easy to prime.
When the beer is passed through the sparkler liquid dynamics come into play and the reason we get a nice creamy head is due I believe to the separation of nitrogen and oxygen remember air is 78% nitrogen that is why the feel of the beer, is like a nitrogen pour.

 

[S.E]

http://www.theplasticman.com.au/default/products.html/64/100/Bottles,-Drums-&-Jerry-Cans/Jerry-Cans

I have got the above, but agree with Sean the cubes are better and if you have a co2 set up easy to prime.
When the beer is passed through the sparkler liquid dynamics come into play and the reason we get a nice creamy head is due I believe to the separation of nitrogen and oxygen remember air is 78% nitrogen that is why the feel of the beer, is like a nitrogen pour.

Since November I have been using a chest freezer as my beer cellar so have set up my engine as it’s not as easy to reach down to pour from the tap as I could using a fridge.

I find using the engine the beer oxidises a lot quicker so have started using poly pins and cubes together so I get the best of both worlds. I use the cube as the cask but connect a poly pin full of co2 to it so as I pull pints it draws in co2 and the poly pin collapses.

Its dead easy to set up, all I did was drill a hole in a spare cube cap and fit an air lock grommet. Cut the bottom length off an old air lock (the bottom bit you push through the grommet in a fermenter) and insert it half way into a length of 10mm Boston pvc tube. One end of the tube fits tightly over the tap on the poly pin and the other, with the piece of airlock pushes into the grommet on the cube cap.

I still haven’t got around to getting a co2 setup so I fill polypins with co2 from the fermenter.

First I use an air pump (the ones used for inflating/deflating paddling pools etc) to suck all the air out of the poly pin and close the tap. Then plug it into the airlock grommet on the fermenter lid using the PVC tube and open the tap. It takes about 1-1.5 hours to fill a 20L poly pin.

Cheers Sean

 

[wide eyed and legless]

That's a brilliant idea, saves any worrying about about have I left the co2 connected to the cask and left it on, are there any leaks, definitely be doing that, I take it you didn't use any priming sugar in the cube/cask?

 

[S.E]

That's a brilliant idea, saves any worrying about about have I left the co2 connected to the cask and left it on, are there any leaks, definitely be doing that, I take it you didn't use any priming sugar in the cube/cask?

I do usually use priming sugar in the cube, I use un drilled caps on them first then change to the drilled cap when I want to serve. Just like venting a cask with a hard spile when it’s needed.