Why I Love Kegs....

[bear09]

Hey all. Consider this a proclamation - nothing else.

I have recently been put into a position where I can keg and I just love it.

It taken 10-15 mins start to finish to keg 19 litres.

I dont have to worry about yeast stability or waiting for my brew to carbonate in bottles for weeks.

I get clear and fresh tasting beer. I feel as though beer in a bottle that sits on a yeast cake always tatses a little astringent unless pure malt is used - time consuming, risky and expensive.

People are more inclined to try your brew if its fresh poured into a glass from a tap. It sounds silly but the way beer is presented puts an impression on it straight away.


Kegs easy and reliable. Infection is almost unheard of. Sanitisation is stupidly easy. Oh - and if by chance something does go wrong - 5 mins to tip it out wash it out and try again.

If you have any doubts about it - quash them.

Cheers.

 

[Supra-Jim]

Can i get an amen!!!!!


I love kegs too!!

Cheers

SJ

 

[raven19]

+1

Will be filling my second keg this week - and I agree, the best part is washing 1 keg in lieu of 30 - 60 bottles!

 

[bear09]

AMEN INDEED>>>>

Everyone get on board!

 

[vicelore]

I kegged for the 1st time yesterday.

Everything from Changing seals, cleaning, sanatising, rinsing, filling assembeling lines fittings.Learning how to turn my reg on without blowing myself up. Took me around 5 hours... Im hoping it will be quicker next time.

 

[peas_and_corn]

Once the system's going, it's easy peasy

 

[Fents]

I kegged for the 1st time yesterday.

Everything from Changing seals, cleaning, sanatising, rinsing, filling assembeling lines fittings.Learning how to turn my reg on without blowing myself up. Took me around 5 hours... Im hoping it will be quicker next time.

should of yelled out mate i coulda helped....but then its no fun learning

 

[Steve]

I recently had two kegs that just wouldnt empty. I knew they were going to blow froth soon but they just kept going n going n going like Kramer and the car salesman in the car with no petrol. It was exhilerating. Maybe because they were two weeks old instead of my usual 1 week cycle? I too love kegs - they love to keep you guessing whereas with bottles you knew when you were onto that last bottle.
Cheers
Steve

 

[vicelore]

should of yelled out mate i coulda helped....but then its no fun learning

Mate i would of loved to have you there there was a few moments when i was a little clueless. ( the micromatic manual would be better used as toilet paper ) . It was just one of the things i woke up and went this is happening.. didnt really plan anything.

I am looking forward to force carbing for the 1st time tonight and smashing a few down.

Cheers vice.

 

[olde]

You had a manual? Looksherry!
Another amen here.

 

[reg]

I recently had two kegs that just wouldnt empty. I knew they were going to blow froth soon but they just kept going n going n going like Kramer and the car salesman in the car with no petrol. It was exhilerating. Maybe because they were two weeks old instead of my usual 1 week cycle? I too love kegs - they love to keep you guessing whereas with bottles you knew when you were onto that last bottle.
Cheers
Steve

That great when it ends up like that.
Pour yourself another beer and think this is going to be empty soon but it takes you two sessions to get through

On the other hand there is nothing worse than coming home from work going to the tap and getting a half glass then nothing but froth..

Oh well the things that us brewers with kegs have to put up with

 

[Spartan 117]

I bought 3 cornelius kegs a week or so ago, just waiting to get a regulator and CO2 bottle and I'll be ready to go


Can't wait

Aaron

 

[Supra-Jim]

I scored 2 free cornie kegs last friday!!! :beerbang:

Now have a total of five (two in service and 3 on standby)

:icon_cheers: SJ

 

[Tony]

I keg 50 liter's at a time.

Let me tell you its easier than bottling.

And if bottles and kegs were the same work, i would keg. Just to have that clear, yeast/haze free beer on tap.

Yes...... people do love a beer from the tap ind i do think it tastes better.

Bottles have their place for bigger beers ect like Imperial stouts and old ales that you age but for a quaffer.......... cant beat the keg.

cheers

 

[SJW]

I put up with bottling for years as I could not be bothered with the whole balancing thing......then I found Cellis :wub: and now I have 4.
Love kegs just love em.

Steve

 

[cdbrown]

I used to bottle during my first foray into homebrewing (well it was more like cats piss brewing) and can distinctly remember the huge amount of time spent on cleaning and sanitizing all those damn bottles. No way was I doing that again - so it was kegs straight away. Even had the kegs and everythign set up before I was ready to homebrew. Washing, cleaning and sanitizing a keg is a joy when compared to bottles. I now just fill the keg and put whats rest into bottles (or if there's a spare keg there into that). If I'm going to a party then I'll just fill up some bottles straight off the tap - cold and carbed ready to go.

 

[MarkBastard]

I recently had two kegs that just wouldnt empty. I knew they were going to blow froth soon but they just kept going n going n going like Kramer and the car salesman in the car with no petrol. It was exhilerating. Maybe because they were two weeks old instead of my usual 1 week cycle? I too love kegs - they love to keep you guessing whereas with bottles you knew when you were onto that last bottle.
Cheers
Steve

Same here, just emptied my first keg the other day.

I was lifting it up to feel how heavy it was, and comparing it to an empty corny. Could have sworn they were the same weight.

So I had a pint. Poured perfectly. So I filled up a 500ml Grolsch swing top. Then another swing top, and another! So then I thought may as well have another pint, and it started pissing out foam about half way through that glass.

In hindsight I reckon I spent the last half of that keg thinking it was almost empty, and probably conserving it a bit because of that. What a waste! Didn't really have a decent session on that beer. I'll never make that mistake again.

 

[JonnyAnchovy]

All the threads here on keggong almost has me convinced - i just need someone to put a couple of last reservations to bed.


1) how long can I keep beer kegged in the fridge? I've heard conflicting reports on this, ranging from a couple of weeks to months. We don't have any seriously big beer drinkers in our house, so 19L will take quite a while to get through.

2) I make a lot of mead. Do you think it would be possible to keg it, chill it without any pressure, and gass it only when its time to dispense? Would I be able to have the best of both worlds by having it both on tap, and still?

I HATE the bottling process, and love the idea of geting it all done in 10 mins!

Cheers!

 

[muckey]

+1 for the joy of kegging. any excess goes into bottles.

I certainly would have given up brewing if I wasn't using kegs

 

[jeremy]

Kegging is the best purchase I have made in my brewing career. If not for the kegs I would have got sick of the effort years ago.

LOVE THE KEG!