Transferring Beer

[brewcrew]

I am still new to kegging and have a stupid question. I have 2 - 5 gallon kegs of carbonated beer and and want to transfer half of each to 2 - 2.5 gallon cornies. What is the easiest way to do this? Connect the beer out of the 5 gallon to the beer out of the 2.5 gallon and hook the CO2 up to the gas in on the 5 gallon? Do I have to worry about venting the 2.5 gallon keg or will the pressure that builds up not be as high as the CO2 pressure pushing it in?

[Sent From My iPhone]

What you discribed is correct. Make sure to vent the 2.5 gallon corny, while transfering. Also, make sure to purge the O2 with CO2.

[DannyW]

I do it like this, with a jumper from beer to beer, and another from gas to gas. Full keg goes up high. A splitter for CO2 on the gas line is nice but not necessary.

[yellowcolumbia]

I am still new to kegging and have a stupid question. I have 2 - 5 gallon kegs of carbonated beer and and want to transfer half of each to 2 - 2.5 gallon cornies. What is the easiest way to do this? Connect the beer out of the 5 gallon to the beer out of the 2.5 gallon and hook the CO2 up to the gas in on the 5 gallon? Do I have to worry about venting the 2.5 gallon keg or will the pressure that builds up not be as high as the CO2 pressure pushing it in?

You will need to either open the pressure release valve or add a gas connector (to open the poppet) on the receiving keg. Otherwise, pressure will build-up within the recieving keg and it will stop the flow.

[Bugeater]

That is pretty much it. You will need to vent the receiving keg. Since you are going from a larger keg to a smaller keg be sure you watch it like a hawk. Otherwise you will have beer spewing out of the relief valve of the small keg. This is a phenomena that I have researched personally.

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company

[Sent From My iPhone]

Danny, what's the purpose of the splitter? Do you vent the recieving keg?

[DannyW]

Sometimes the flow slows way down near the end. If I get tired of waiting I can close the gas near the receiving keg, add gas to the sending keg, and vent the receiving keg with the pressure relief. Now that I think about it, though, I don't think I've had to do that since I raised the sending keg about 6".

The other reason is that I use that gas jumper for dispensing when I take kegs on the road. If I was making a jumper just for doing keg transfers, I would leave out the T I think.

[Mylo]

Basically what Danny made is a CP filler for kegs. If I understand it properly, he can purge the receiving keg and pressurize it up to the same pressure as the source keg. Then when he clips on the beer line jumper, the flow will not start until he starts venting the receiving keg. Since all kegs have the poppets, it's not really necessary to keep it all connected - like you have to on your CP bottle filler - maybe just more convenient. Gravity isn't really necessary unless he turns off the gas to the source (and opens the pressure relief to vent).

You can get the same effect by just keeping one gas line on the source (after you have already purged and pressurized your receiving keg). You can control the flow rate by how fast you vent the reciever - but it probably doesn't matter because any spashing will be in a CO2 environment anyway.

When I eventually get my blichmann, I want to build something similar to this so I can CP transfer, and the first time the beer hits O2 will be when I pour it into a glass.


Mylo