Kegging

[foxbat]

So I have had my kegging bits all ready to go for over a month, and not been brave enough to assemble it all. Taping the joints with gas rated PTFE is making me a bit nervous, and I'm not sure how to sanitise all the lines before connection - do you sanitise the gas lines and disconnects as well?

Anna

None of the joints designed for gas or beer should require PTFE. What have you got that you think needs tape? Any metal-on-metal connectors (usually internal regulator connections that you won't see) should close up on a nylon washer. The keg posts should tighten up against an o-ring. The 1/4" screw connectors on the keg disconnects are a compression fitting and don't need PTFE. Everything else should be John Guest push-fit.

You don't need to sanitise gas lines.

Disconnects, lines and taps are cleaned by pushing PBW from a keg through them with a bit of CO2 then rinsed the same way with water and sanitised before use the same way with Starsan.

 

[gavp1979]

I was hoping to use some sort of keg mounted tap on a 9L Cornie to avoid using something like the deluxe party tap/ balanced line in the link. Are these not a PITA to keep clean and require sanitation between uses?

You can use one of these to connect a tap direct to the keg via a disconnect, I would recommend using a flow control tap because you obviously don't have any beer line to restrict the flow.

https://brewkegtap.co.uk/collections/taps/products/mfl-tap-shank-adapter

 

[Falco]

You can use one of these to connect a tap direct to the keg via a disconnect, I would recommend using a flow control tap because you obviously don't have any beer line to restrict the flow.

https://brewkegtap.co.uk/collections/taps/products/mfl-tap-shank-adapter

Cheers for that.

Yes I was thinking about a flow control tap as I’d read they’re supposed to make dispensing easier with less foaming.

 

[gavp1979]

Cheers for that.

Yes I was thinking about a flow control tap as I’d read they’re supposed to make dispensing easier with less foaming.

Before building my kegorator I used an intertap flow control direct on the keg and it worked well

 

[Falco]

Before building my kegorator I used an intertap flow control direct on the keg and it worked well

Good to know thanks

 

[DocAnna]

None of the joints designed for gas or beer should require PTFE. What have you got that you think needs tape? Any metal-on-metal connectors (usually internal regulator connections that you won't see) should close up on a nylon washer. The keg posts should tighten up against an o-ring. The 1/4" screw connectors on the keg disconnects are a compression fitting and don't need PTFE. Everything else should be John Guest push-fit.

You don't need to sanitise gas lines.

Disconnects, lines and taps are cleaned by pushing PBW from a keg through them with a bit of CO2 then rinsed the same way with water and sanitised before use the same way with Starsan.

Thank you. I was planning on using PTFE tape between the JG fittings that screw on to the gas distributor thing - manifold I think and from the regulator to tank. Partly an excuse and partly just really busy. You might have noticed all things COVID-19 have been a bit hectic recently and that has kept my days and evenings a bit full. I need to get on with setting up the kegs though - deep breath.
Anna

 

[Toxicdonkey]

The things I've done that made a real difference I wouldn't go back from.
1) All grain, tastes so much cleaner.
2)Pressure fermenting, so much faster.
3) Kegging.

With my set up. I can get grain to glass in 4-5 days. However, 9 days in the pressure fermenter, cold crash and keg day 12.. I have lovely clean drinkable beer. That's already carbonated.