Corny to mini keg

[liamf89]

Hi I'm going down to friends the weekend don't have a beer gun yet and all my beers are in cornies.. Just wondering could I pour some into some of my mini kegs I have cap them and bring with me and then connect the wee party star tap like normal and serve or will the beer not transfer right. It's a stout and was going to serve it with the wee nitrogen bulbs

 

[Steved53]

Hi I'm going down to friends the weekend don't have a beer gun yet and all my beers are in cornies.. Just wondering could I pour some into some of my mini kegs I have cap them and bring with me and then connect the wee party star tap like normal and serve or will the beer not transfer right. It's a stout and was going to serve it with the wee nitrogen bulbs

Ensure that the cornie is carbonated to your satisfaction at the temperature you are likely to serve it at.
Then chill the cornie keg full of beer as cold as you can get it, without it freezing. Chill the mini keg.
Attach a short length of tubing to your tap and fill from the bottom of the mini keg.
Cap the mini keg.
I'm not convinced serving with nitrogen will have much effect if you've carbonated in the cornie, but I don't think it will harm.

 

[liamf89]

Ensure that the cornie is carbonated to your satisfaction at the temperature you are likely to serve it at.
Then chill the cornie keg full of beer as cold as you can get it, without it freezing. Chill the mini keg.
Attach a short length of tubing to your tap and fill from the bottom of the mini keg.
Cap the mini keg.
I'm not convinced serving with nitrogen will have much effect if you've carbonated in the cornie, but I don't think it will harm.

its already carbed up and is at serving temperature.. So I just need to put pipe on tap and fill it that way then stick cap on and should be grand.. The nitrogen is to give it a creamer head reduces size of co2 bubbles and also supposably adds body the same as when you serve stout with 70/30 mix

 

[Steved53]

its already carbed up and is at serving temperature.. So I just need to put pipe on tap and fill it that way then stick cap on and should be grand.. The nitrogen is to give it a creamer head reduces size of co2 bubbles and also supposably adds body the same as when you serve stout with 70/30 mix

No, I am suggesting you will need to chill the cornie full of beer down to the minimum temperature, as well as the keg you are filling, in order to be able to fill the keg without it all frothing up.

If you can fill a mini keg with beer that is at normal serving temperature and is well carbonated, without a counter pressure filler without it all foaming up, then good on you.

Whatever gas you use to get the beer out of the mini keg, I believe will have little effect on your already carbonated beer. I might be wrong, as I haven't used nitrogen for what you intend doing. I just don't think the nitrogen will have the time to gas up the beer and mix with the co2. It can't harm anything, but I'm just not convinced it will have the effect you describe, using it in the way you describe.

 

[DogAndDoris]

I brew into 9 and 11ltr cornies (I do have 19ltr as well). I also have a few regulators that attach to soda stream bottles, and a way to refill them myself. I can decant a big cornie into a smaller one for parties etc.

I take two sodastream type bottles, a regulator, a 9ltr cornie and a party tap wherever I go. I hope i don't ever have to put a fire out with it.