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New Cornelius Keg Questions???
I just bought a new Cornelius Keg from my local HB supplier, Liquor Barn. These are the questions I have:
1) What is the liquid that is already in the keg??? I assume CO2 liquid. Do I need to get rid of it?
If so then can I just use boiling water to purge and sanitize?
2) After filling can I bottle the remaining beer for aging?
3) I will be using a Cornelius Keg CO2 charger from Genuine Innovations... Since I do not have a pressure regulator how can I guesstimate the pressure to force carbonate? This one come with a 16g cylinder.
4) Any other helpful hints?
Thanks!!!
1) Are you sure this is a new keg? It sounds like you either have syrup from a soda keg or the remnants of what was used to clean up a soda keg. You should dump what is inside and sanitize prior to filling.
2) If you brewed 5 gallons, you shouldn't have any beer left over. If you made more than 5 gallons, then you can certainly bottle whatever you have left. You would have to rack this to a bottling bucket and prime just as if you were normally bottling.
3) I don't have any experience with the device you are talking about, but you may want to try to find a CO2 tank and regulator. The small CO2 canisters won't last too long. A 5 or 10 lb tank will last significantly longer and will allow you to add more kegs in the future.
Agree with everything above, especially number three. Those CO2 cartridges are made to dispense the beer (at say a party), not to force carbonate. I would think you would go through several cartridges for each keg, which probably would pay for a CO2 tank in 5 kegs or less.
DT
It is a reconditioned and I received a good deal of help from Midwest brew supply. Thanks guys!!
They said to boil some water, dump in seal shake and purge. Then sanitize and purge. I also added the keg rate of bottling sugar and charged it with the CO2 a little and bled a bit to remove the O2.
The bottling ? was if I can effectively bottle some of the kegged beer after it is carbonated.
You can bottle after it is carbonated, but you will need a specific bottling dispenser for your keg. Otherwise you will get a ton of foam when you try to fill the bottle with your keg.
Not much I can say that hasn't been addressed...
1. If there is liquid in the keg, it is not new. Co2 is a GAS, not a liquid.
2. You can do whatever you want it the remainder.
3. No idea. I use a 5# co2 bottle. You might want to give the company a call and ask them.
4. Don't pay more than $25 for a used corny keg. I never boil water to clean my kegs. I dump in some Straight A, about a gallon of water, close the lid and shake it REALLY HARD for a few minutes, dump that out and repeat the process with about a cup of Star San mixed with water.
norcalnewb wrote:
You can bottle after it is carbonated, but you will need a specific bottling dispenser for your keg. Otherwise you will get a ton of foam when you try to fill the bottle with your keg.
Not completely true. If you had a real tank and pressure guage you could drop the pressure to 1-2 lbs. and pour it carefully into a bottle. I do it all the time and it works fine. If you want to get all fancy you can get a tube that fits in the dispenser and in the bottle and do it like that. Again though, you couldn't do this with a CO2 cartridge type of dispenser without a guage since I believe those things are all or nothing.
DT
cubx wrote:
1. If there is liquid in the keg, it is not new. Co2 is a GAS, not a liquid.
CO2 can actually be a liquid too...but it requires pressure. You probably have some liquid CO2 in your CO2 tank since it's compressed.
DT
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