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09-12-2005, 11:47 PM
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Keg Suggestions
I've got a two-keg kegerator and just polished off a keg of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I get the feeling the other keg - Shiner Bock - isn't far behind, so I'm taking suggestions for one or both.
I'm a hop head. The Sierra Pale was good, but if I was just buying bottles I'd much prefer Stone IPA or Ruination over that. Kegged, the best I can do here is Sierra. I also love hefeweizens and am thinking about trying to get a keg of Weihenstephaner, if I can get it. If not, I'm also considering Spaten Pils or a similar beer. So, given my tastes - hops or good German beers, preferably weizens - suggest a keg or two. Cost isn't much of a factor, and certainly much less of an obstacle as availability. Also, if I'm getting a German brew, I'll almost definitely have to get a new part to tap it. The cost isn't a big deal, but if the second keg runs out before it gets here, I'll probably just run out and get a keg of a domestic, so that might affect any combo pairings you have in mind. As a last note, does anyone have any experience try to get a seasonal keg from breweries? I love Sierra's Summer brew, but I don't know if I can just ask the distributor to get a keg of it. 
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#3
09-13-2005, 12:03 AM
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Re: Keg Suggestions
I'd go with an Oktoberfest brew.
I've had Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr, and Ayinger. Can't say I remember from last year which I most preferred [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] BTW, very jealous of the setup.
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#4
09-13-2005, 12:21 AM
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Re: Keg Suggestions
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I can't really help, but I was wondering how long the beer stays good in your kegerator. A week? Longer? [/ QUOTE ] It'll be good for at least 6 months. Beyond that I'm unsure, since its never sat around that long. But, assuming your lines are clean, the beer is staying cool, pressurized, and sealed. There's really not anything to ruin it. As far as being jealous of my setup, when I get into homebrewing I'll be able to put at least 2 homebrew kegs in there, if not 4, and then swap out depending on how many homebrews I've got and which commercials I want. Talk about heaven...
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#5
09-13-2005, 12:56 AM
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Re: Keg Suggestions
In my next house, I will have a triple kegerator with Guinness, Boddington's Pub Ale, and a rotating third keg. There should be a Keg of the Month club. If there was, I'd join that for my rotator.
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#6
09-13-2005, 01:10 AM
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Re: Keg Suggestions
i [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] boddingtons
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#8
09-13-2005, 01:18 AM
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Re: Keg Suggestions
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[ QUOTE ] I can't really help, but I was wondering how long the beer stays good in your kegerator. A week? Longer? [/ QUOTE ] It'll be good for at least 6 months. Beyond that I'm unsure, since its never sat around that long. But, assuming your lines are clean, the beer is staying cool, pressurized, and sealed. There's really not anything to ruin it. [/ QUOTE ] How much of a hassle is it to clean the lines clean? I'd like to have something set up, but there are two things that are stopping me. The first is that I don't have any good place to put it unless I put the unit down in my basement and run the lines upstairs from there. The second is that I don't actually sit at home and drink a lot of beer, so it'd have to keep well for a decent amount of time and I'd want to have at least two if not three different beers at any given time. If it keeps for months, that'd solve the second problem. Ambition and easy maintenance solves the first.
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#9
09-13-2005, 01:28 AM
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Re: Keg Suggestions
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How much of a hassle is it to clean the lines clean? [/ QUOTE ] Not much, really. First, with just about any keg, the commonly recommended cleaning is in between kegs. If you have commercial kegs running more or less continuously, this may not be as important, as beer should be constantly in the lines at 40 degrees or less. Second, most of the info on this that you'll find is from homebrewers, who are a notoriously germaphobic group, understandably. If youve got homebrews, you definitely want to run sanitizer through your lines every keg. I'm sure that the average homebrewer would do it more often if it was more practical. As for running your lines from a basement to a kitchen... go for it! The pressure isn't a problem, as you can just set your CO2 to whatever you need to pump it. A bigger problem, as you alluded, is keeping the beer cool along the way, so it isn't excessively foamy. As far as I can tell, there are several solutions from this, ranging from wrapping the lines in some sort of insolation to taping a line of another coolant to your beer line and using a pond pump to pump the coolant up there with your beer. Essentially, it depends on how far you've got to go and how far you're willing to go to reduce pouring problems. I suck at "handyman" type stuff and I've managed to figure a lot out, so I would imagine an engineer would do as well or better with less effort.
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