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Offline Influenze

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Question about commercial keg freshness
« on: July 06, 2014, 08:50:24 pm »
I have a commercial keg that I got over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. I used a Pony tap air pump to get the beer out, but I still have more than half of the keg left. I read that it will go flat in about 48 hours, my question is can I transfer this into a corny keg where I I have the fittings for my CO2 tank to carbonate it? Would this work or do I need to figure something else out for this before I end up losing the keg of beer? I tapped it Saturday at 3pm

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Question about commercial keg freshness
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2014, 09:04:23 pm »
It would work but you are still up with oxidation issue.

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Re: Question about commercial keg freshness
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2014, 09:12:19 pm »
Hmm, ok. I guess I'll have to retrofit my home system with a sanke setup. I love craft beer, but also commercial "light" beers and have a commercial keg for it. Man, I would of loved to save this beer, but you learn as you go

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Re: Question about commercial keg freshness
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2014, 09:34:04 am »
If you get a sanke tap for the commercial keg, you can fit it with a kit like this.

https://www.midwestsupplies.com/ball-lock-conversion-kit-for-sanke-coupler.html?utm_medium=feeds&utm_source=google&gclid=CjwKEAjwre6dBRC94d-Gma7g3wcSJACNatZezu7C9PKvqh6FcwF4gyMJHhHNyT-sVWIbblBCuuPOuhoCpEDw_wcB

This will allow you to connect your ball lock connections directly to the sanke tap. no need to remove fittings

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Re: Question about commercial keg freshness
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2014, 10:56:11 am »
If you get a sanke tap for the commercial keg, you can fit it with a kit like this.

https://www.midwestsupplies.com/ball-lock-conversion-kit-for-sanke-coupler.html?utm_medium=feeds&utm_source=google&gclid=CjwKEAjwre6dBRC94d-Gma7g3wcSJACNatZezu7C9PKvqh6FcwF4gyMJHhHNyT-sVWIbblBCuuPOuhoCpEDw_wcB

This will allow you to connect your ball lock connections directly to the sanke tap. no need to remove fittings


Those are great, but increase the clearance required. A 90 degree adapter is a nice additon.


[size=78%]http://www.midwestsupplies.com/90-degree-beer-thread-adapter.html[/size]