Hello All

Can anyone recommend a 5 gallon beer pressure barrel with a pressure
meter for home brew use.

Many thanks for any comments

regards
DC

DC wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Hello All
>
> Can anyone recommend a 5 gallon beer pressure barrel with a pressure
> meter for home brew use.
>
> Many thanks for any comments
>
> regards
> DC[/color]

Never seen or heard of anything like it...

--------->Denny
--
Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is.

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I always thought you could buy such an item, let me explain.

I have a KING KEG pressure barrel but always seem to have trouble with
low pressure with beer coming out a tricke when the keg is half
empty. C02 cannister bursts in through top valve of keg seems to only
improve pressure matters slightly and there appears to be no leaks in
keg.

Is it me or do you professional homerbrewers use some form of pressure
gauge/meter to the take guesswork out of maintaining pressure in the
keg.

DC

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:06:06 -0800, Denny Conn <me@privacy.net> wrote:
[color=blue]
>DC wrote:[color=green]
>>
>> Hello All
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a 5 gallon beer pressure barrel with a pressure
>> meter for home brew use.
>>
>> Many thanks for any comments
>>
>> regards
>> DC[/color]
>
>Never seen or heard of anything like it...
>
> --------->Denny[/color]

DC wrote:[color=blue]
>
> I always thought you could buy such an item, let me explain.
>
> I have a KING KEG pressure barrel but always seem to have trouble with
> low pressure with beer coming out a tricke when the keg is half
> empty. C02 cannister bursts in through top valve of keg seems to only
> improve pressure matters slightly and there appears to be no leaks in
> keg.
>
> Is it me or do you professional homerbrewers use some form of pressure
> gauge/meter to the take guesswork out of maintaining pressure in the
> keg.[/color]

I have no idea about your situation, I'm afarid...never heard of the
product you're talking about. I use 5 gal. SS soda kegs, a CO2 tank,
and regulator. The guages on the tank give me the info you're looking
for. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

-------->Denny
--
Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is.

Reply to denny_dot_g_dot_conn_at_ci_dot_eugene_dot_or_dot_us

Thanks for your comment.

Having looked at websites on the regulator you mention below in your
reply, this appears to be the bit I'm missing from my setup which
would take guess work out with barrel pressures.

Many thanks you've put me on the right track which I'll now
investigate.

regards
DC
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>
>I have no idea about your situation, I'm afarid...never heard of the
>product you're talking about. I use 5 gal. SS soda kegs, a CO2 tank,
>and regulator. The guages on the tank give me the info you're looking
>for. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
>
> -------->Denny[/color]

Denny what pressure are you running at with your soda
tank setup as I am seting up a similar system now
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> >I have no idea about your situation, I'm afarid...never heard of the
> >product you're talking about. I use 5 gal. SS soda kegs, a CO2 tank,
> >and regulator. The guages on the tank give me the info you're looking
> >for. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
> >
> > -------->Denny[/color]
>
>[/color]

rpga wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Denny what pressure are you running at with your soda
> tank setup as I am seting up a similar system now[/color]

I like about 2.5-2.75 volumes of CO2 in my beer. I set my fridge at
40F, so I carbonate to about 12 psi. There's a relationship between
carbonation, temp. and pressure you have to maintain.

--------->Denny
--
Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is.

Reply to denny_dot_g_dot_conn_at_ci_dot_eugene_dot_or_dot_us

thanks much as I plan on keeping my frig temp about the same as I also plan
on storing potatoes in the bottom containers which I can often get very
cheep on sale at times and other time full retail so I tend to buy 15-20 lb
extra when there on sale
I am also puting in a stout faucet powered by a 4th 5 gal corny soda keg
and a nitrogen tank and regulator running 75%/25 % co2 and nitrogen
[color=blue][color=green]
> > Denny what pressure are you running at with your soda
> > tank setup as I am seting up a similar system now[/color]
>
> I like about 2.5-2.75 volumes of CO2 in my beer. I set my fridge at
> 40F, so I carbonate to about 12 psi. There's a relationship between
> carbonation, temp. and pressure you have to maintain.
>
> --------->Denny
> --
> Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is.
>
> Reply to denny_dot_g_dot_conn_at_ci_dot_eugene_dot_or_dot_us
>[/color]

rpga wrote:[color=blue]
>
> thanks much as I plan on keeping my frig temp about the same as I also plan
> on storing potatoes in the bottom containers which I can often get very
> cheep on sale at times and other time full retail so I tend to buy 15-20 lb
> extra when there on sale
> I am also puting in a stout faucet powered by a 4th 5 gal corny soda keg
> and a nitrogen tank and regulator running 75%/25 % co2 and nitrogen[/color]

My wife grows LOTS of potatoes and we keep them in back of the kegs in
the beer fridge...must just be a natural thing to do!

----------->Denny
--
Life begins at 60 - 1.060, that is.

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