Thursday, April 29, 2010

Beer on tap??? WhawhaWHAT??

The fridge is positioned and has holes filled with metal slugs called shanks. These shanks connect to a keg on one side and your glass on the other. Pull the handle and watch as liquid bread fills your glass. Shown above is the first pint poured from the fridge/kegerator. For you beer geeks, I switched from a "Cobra" picnic style tap to the normal draft tap or faucet. I also downsized the liquid line to a 3/16" ID from 1/4". Huge difference! 1/4" line does not offer enough "head" or pressure drop on the beer where as 3/16" gives you approx. 2 psi drop per ft of line. Serving pressure is typically around 10-12 psi so at 5ft of line your beer should flow ever so slowly out of the faucet to produce a perfect pour. As seen above, the stout has a nice 1/2" to 3/4" head.
Here's the front, 2 taps, only one handle right now. I cut a camshaft from a 1979 Chevy Camaro to use a handle. Wicked Boss, Guy!
The guts....keg of homebrew stout, C02 cylinder, C02 lines (red) coming from a 3 port manifold. Also seen are random bottles of brew and a Helles Lager still in the secondary fermenter.

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