I've been brewing for several years but have always bottled. I have been looking into getting a keg but have no idea what the differences between the different types. Can anyone help me out? Right now im looking into buying either a Paulander keg, a Cornelius Keg, or a Sanke keg.
+1 on the corny. The opening on a sanke is too small to be practical for homebrewers - unless you build a kegwasher and want to play with serious caustics.
Mylo
"Life is too short to bottle homebrew." - Me
"HEINEKEN? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!" - Dennis Hopper, in Blue Velvet
Just got a corny and am excited to brew, just gotta find time......
Fermenting: empty Keg: amber ale and cream soda Bottled: none Up Coming Brews: possible peach wheat, Okonokos Orange IPA, Mocha Milk Stout, Solly's Red Arrow Ale
Yeah, but when your brother is working in a lab where you can use their autoclave machine, it become much more practical! I can only hope he never finishes his PhD, or that I can save up enough to get a kegging system by then. I'm actually looking forward to bottling this time!
kegging rocks, just take the time to make sure all the seals are good otherwise you can put a lot of gas through your kegs and still have flat beer. Also make sure you buy more than one, theres nothing more frustrating than having a keg run out mid drinking session and not having another ready to go. I have 2 and am going to get 2 more.
I reused the yeast from my first batch of english ale in my second batch and ended up with 50+ bottles of undrinkable beer. It was so nasty my wife actually puked after drinking three of them. I had a Northern Brown in the Carboy but I couldn't work up the energy to bottle. I really hate washing all those stupid bottles and waiting two weeks to have drinkable beer. My wife asked me for the third time or so how much it would cost to start kegging. "about $200" I told her. "Well why don't we start kegging" she says. So we went out and bought everything I got it set up and carbonated in a day. Man, it tell you nothing restores a man's confidence more than serving your own homebrew on tap after serving some nasty shit beer. It's better than Enzyte!
Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Bierce
