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- From: jeff@smoggy.gg.caltech.edu (Jeff Goldsmith)
- Newsgroups: alt.beer
- Subject: Re: How do you stop a keg from going flat???
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 23:33:10 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- The hard part is not keeping the beer pressurized, but keeping
- it cold. You can buy a CO2 cannister, regulator, and tap kit
- from a bunch of different places for $100-200. I did; one place
- that rates to have them is the Oliver Ennis Company in Culver City,
- CA. Keeping the beer cold, on the other hand, is a pain in the
- neck. I modified an old refrigerator to use the cannister and tap
- kit (just like the frats way back when.) Cutting through an old
- refrigerator door is one major hassle. I got a carbide heavy-duty
- hole saw and that was just barely enough; the thing was trashed by
- the time we were done. It was like cutting through 1/4" armorplate.
- The story has a good ending: the beer 'fridge works great and I have
- get different taps to fit different keg types, including Sierra Nevada
- Pale Ale (which recently went to the Sankey tap, btw from the Golden
- Gate tap.) SNAle is far better on tap than from a bottle, too.
- --Jeff
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