Anyone have a draft beer keg?
Discussion
I was given a Philips Perfect Draft a few years ago as a birthday present. It is pretty good but like a lot of these sorts of gadgets it has been relegated to the cupboard, it does make appearances for parties. I found it took up quite a lot of space and I don’t drink that much these days so having to drink the keg in 30 days was an issue.
C0ffin D0dger said:
I home brew, always got around 40 pints of beer available on draught from a pressure barrel. Want to move towards a proper keg system one day.
Ditto. In the process of setting up a cornelius keg system. I'm working with party taps at the moment but they just produce lots of foam because of the diameter and length of the tubing.
I've never really understood those mini-keg systems, like the Philips one. I can't understand why anyone would buy one.
Too small to be any use at a party, because if you're even remotely popular you'll be changing the 'barrel' more than once an hour. The Sub is only 3.5pts, and the Perfect Draft is only 10.5pts.
Too expensive to justify having it lying around for occasional consumption, because the quality/choice of canned and bottled beers at even a medium-sized supermarket is far better. Beer for these systems tends to be 99% lager, and frankly I can't imagine going to all that effort just to drink cooking lager.
They are basically a novelty item, usually bought for the sort of bloke who has a 'bar' in the garage of his newbuild 3-bed semi.
If you're having a big gathering, hire a proper keg/cask and get someone to set it up for you.
If you're looking for a smaller, more novelty affair, you can get standalone mini-casks that don't require spending a couple of hundred quid on a machine that will live in the shed for 360 days a year.
(like this: https://cellarandkitchen.adnams.co.uk/kit/view/adn...
or this: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/ser...
Too small to be any use at a party, because if you're even remotely popular you'll be changing the 'barrel' more than once an hour. The Sub is only 3.5pts, and the Perfect Draft is only 10.5pts.
Too expensive to justify having it lying around for occasional consumption, because the quality/choice of canned and bottled beers at even a medium-sized supermarket is far better. Beer for these systems tends to be 99% lager, and frankly I can't imagine going to all that effort just to drink cooking lager.
They are basically a novelty item, usually bought for the sort of bloke who has a 'bar' in the garage of his newbuild 3-bed semi.
If you're having a big gathering, hire a proper keg/cask and get someone to set it up for you.
If you're looking for a smaller, more novelty affair, you can get standalone mini-casks that don't require spending a couple of hundred quid on a machine that will live in the shed for 360 days a year.
(like this: https://cellarandkitchen.adnams.co.uk/kit/view/adn...
or this: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/ser...
Edited by C70R on Tuesday 5th February 12:55
HarryFlatters said:
PositronicRay said:
What about real ales?
Typically cask beers aren't carbonated (other than what is naturally produced during fermentation), and require a beer engine to dispense authentically.Authentic Real Ale is straight out of the Barrel..... Tap it, Hard/Soft peg depending on how soon your going to drink it, Once it's soft pegged you've drawn air from outside into the barrel you've got about 3days to drink it?
I thought proper pasteurised Kegs with a CO2/ Nitrogen gas would last upto 3mths. Ours did at least?
Outside air is what kills beer.... or more specifically causes bacteria too kill it.
HarryFlatters said:
C0ffin D0dger said:
I home brew, always got around 40 pints of beer available on draught from a pressure barrel. Want to move towards a proper keg system one day.
Ditto. In the process of setting up a cornelius keg system. I'm working with party taps at the moment but they just produce lots of foam because of the diameter and length of the tubing.
SwanJack said:
HarryFlatters said:
C0ffin D0dger said:
I home brew, always got around 40 pints of beer available on draught from a pressure barrel. Want to move towards a proper keg system one day.
Ditto. In the process of setting up a cornelius keg system. I'm working with party taps at the moment but they just produce lots of foam because of the diameter and length of the tubing.
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