Finished* My First Keg

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Finished* My First Keg

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And I have to say I loved it. The beer was cold, clear, well carbed and very convenient. Want half a glass? There you go! While I was a bit nervous about the whole thing, it didn't leak or anything bad.
* "Finished": I want to bottle/keg a batch tomorrow. (The keg is 2.5) I knew the current keg full must be close to empty, so I bottled two pints in swing tops. The third only filled halfway, and had too much foam anyway. I had failed to chill that bottle or vent the pressure first. So, I just have to drink it!
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And........he's hooked. :jumpy:
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Glad you enjoyed your first. :clink:
Beer-lord wrote:And........he's hooked. :jumpy:
Hopefully he will be able to control himself, unlike me. :redface: If not we can help come up with more ways for you to spend your money.
I have a total of 14 five gallon kegs, with 7 of them pouring beer right now. :whistle:
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Inkleg wrote:Glad you enjoyed your first. :clink:
Beer-lord wrote:And........he's hooked. :jumpy:
Hopefully he will be able to control himself, unlike me. :redface: If not we can help come up with more ways for you to spend your money.
I have a total of 14 five gallon kegs, with 7 of them pouring beer right now. :whistle:
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Inkleg wrote: Hopefully he will be able to control himself, unlike me. :redface: If not we can help come up with more ways for you to spend your money.
I have a total of 14 five gallon kegs, with 7 of them pouring beer right now. :whistle:
YEP I think he's hooked too, it's easy to do on most aspects of this obsession!
I'm working on catching to you Jeff, only have 6 five g. and 1 two and a halfer plus one 15.5 sanke. Have three pouring and four carbing. The sanke is waiting for the 15 G batch to finish fermenting, after we return from Nashville.
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Impressive Jeff!

Ya, I like the flexibility of pouring what I want, although 99 times out of 100 it is probably to the rim.

Hoping to soon have 4 quarter barrels and 6 half barrels to play with. Even if I cut three of them up for keggles it still leaves me with 3 half barrels. That should keep me occupied (and looking for a bigger rig!).
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I have 9 kegs but usually only have 3 tapped. I could use the keezer to keep a few more but prefer to keep that as a fermentation chamber.
I love what kegging allows me to do. I've saved 2 very plain beers just by keg hopping them. They weren't stellar but I wouldn't have kept them otherwise.
I also like the idea that I can pour as little or as much as I want without wasting any.
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I'm a total keg man now too. Plus, I received a beer gun for Christmas & I must say it works great for growlers to go or bottling. I have 2 kegs pouring now. But man, 7 at once, that's fantastic. Something to shoot for. Cheers Beer Brothers :flag:
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I'm able to fit three kegs in my keezer (but just two taps), and at first I wasn't sure if I'd ever be able to keep them all full and rotate through. But since I've got a lager in one of them that I don't intend to tap until April, now I'm wondering if I'll need to bottle one or two five-gallon batches.

Problems like this are the type of problems you want to have, though.
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Yeah, too much beer doesn't suck.
I'm still using my mini fridge for both the mini keg and bottles. It fits a case of bottles plus a 2.5gal keg. It will, I think, fit two 2.5s and three sixes. Right now I'm just using the picnic tap.
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Whatever works. I knew I wanted a permanent larger-scale dispensing system, so I went ahead and got a freezer, got my brother and his friend to do the conversion, and put a 3-keg/2-tap keezer together. If I figure I'd be upgrading anyway, I'm willing to go whole hog right out of the gate rather than take baby steps until I get there.
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You may be right. I've made that mistake with pots and fermenters. But there are other issues here, lack of space and limited electric. Jane suggested a kegorator in the basement, but I don't really want to go downstairs every time I want a beer.
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