Mini kegs

[bquiggerz]

Hello everyone,
I've been bored of bottling. Now I want a way to increase my beer storage capacity without having to have 100+ bottles lying about the house because once they are in crates that can take up a lot of room. Not just that sanitising them takes forever. I don't have the money, space or local suppliers to get into cornys so I have decided to go the mini keg route. Not so long ago I won a beer barrel kit which included a mini keg and that was what God me thinking. I've ordered a mini keg set which comes with three mini kegs, 10 co2 bulbs and a dispensing tap. + the beer barrel keg makes for four kegs. Had anyone else gone this route. Is there anything I need to take into consideration when mini kegging.

Thanks,

Ben.

 

[ceejam]

I have re-used easy kegs from my local microbrewery.

One of the online homebrew shops sell new top stoppers, so so re-used to begin with and then bought new.

I just used to treat them like big bottles, clean out, sanitise, prime with 10-15g sugar, rack the beer in - how to know you've left head space? Weigh it on scales as you fill - 1 litre = 1kg, near as dammit.

 

[bquiggerz]

Well with a gravity of 1.010 it would weigh a tiny bit more. But yeah, I get what you mean. Can't wait to have beer on tap.

 

[sausagefingers]

I love my mini kegs, have 9 on the go at most times but I also use bottles a lot.
Saves an age bottling up, cleaning and good for storage. Bought mine from Leyland home brew along with a co2 tap dispenser and it's fantastic, the rubber bungs are reusable and the co2 bulbs last about 4 kegs worth each so cost pennies extra per pint.
If I'm just going to have a few pints I'll drink the bottles but if I'm feeling thirsty then it's time to get a keg in the fridge, they're brilliant for having a session - can't recomend them highly enough but they don't seem to get mentioned much on here.
I don't want the full corny keg set up and just keep my beer stash in my garage and get the beer out when I need it so it takes up no room in the house at all.
It gives a really nice creamy pint with the tap but once I start I have no self control, I had a keg of Razorback on Saturday that I had brewed in January and I was talking gibberish and walking into doors - great stuff :