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How To Reuse Your Heineken Mini-Kegs

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Re: How To Reuse Your Heineken Mini-Kegs

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 12:07 am
by Will21NZ
Can anyone shed some light on this? If possible more detailed instructions on how this works would be greatly appreciated.

Re: How To Reuse Your Heineken Mini-Kegs

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 5:27 pm
by dmtaylor
The hole needs to be a super tight fit. The bung has a little groove that holds it in the tight hole. It can be a real bitch to get it in and out, but once it's there, if you do it right, it should hold. I like a little Vaseline to get it in there. Coaxing it in with a dull screwdriver can also help.

If you need more detailed instructions, I hear 50 Shades of Gray is a good book. I haven't read it myself.

Re: How To Reuse Your Heineken Mini-Kegs

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:52 pm
by Will21NZ
Thanks Dave,

If you are using a dull screw driver I don't think 50 Shades will help. I'll have to check with the misses cause I haven't read it myself.

The rest of your instructions make more sence though.
Cheers :jnj

Re: How To Reuse Your Heineken Mini-Kegs

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:32 pm
by Ozwald
dmtaylor wrote:I like a little Vaseline to get it in there. Coaxing it in with a dull screwdriver can also help.


Wait, what? :shock:

Re: How To Reuse Your Heineken Mini-Kegs

Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 10:18 am
by zxcy38462
what size/ kind of drill bit did you use for the bung? step bit? I gotta try this

Re: How To Reuse Your Heineken Mini-Kegs

Posted: Mon May 15, 2017 9:01 pm
by snowcapt
Sometimes I still wonder if the dishes got done.

Re: How To Reuse Your Heineken Mini-Kegs

Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 5:46 pm
by Charlie
I got one of those things in 2009 hoping to reuse it to keg a small amount of brew for parties. Here's the problem:

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When I removed the septum I saw that thing inside, and I realized that it wasn't going to be suitable for reuse. So I cut the bottom off with a saber saw, and this is what I found:

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You can't sanitize that stuff for shit!

Charlie

Re: How To Reuse Your Heineken Mini-Kegs

Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 7:28 pm
by dmtaylor
snowcapt wrote:Sometimes I still wonder if the dishes got done.


Sink is currently empty.

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