by scanman » Monday Mar 17, 2008 5:01 pm
Hello everyone.
I am just about to embark on setting up my first keg system, mainly like most I am getting sick of washing and filling bottles. I have aquired the first item, a fridge, which is suitable, but I have run into a couple of snags, and though I can work around them, I thought I would come and talk to the experts here first about my dilemar.
Firstly, I have a nice bar, and when the suggetsion of the keg fridge and putting it near the bar came up the missus lost it and said no way. If you want it, it can go in the garage. So to keep her happy and still have my beer near the bar, I have decided to add a font to the bar. This is where my questions start.
Firstly, my bar is right in front of the wall which the garage also shares, so running lines from a fridge to the bar would not be a hassle. Just that to do it neatly would require adding a few more meters of tubing then normal. I haven't measured it up yet, but I am guessing 3 or 4 meters to get it from the side of the fridge, through the wall and along a conduate to the bar, then into the bar and into the font. Woudl this cause CO2 pressure and pouring issues??? I read somewhere there is a formula for using longer lines when kegging to get the pouring pressure right.
The other hting that worries me is keeping the ber cold enough from the fridge to the font. A flooded font is of cours ethe best option here, but they seem to cost an arm and a leg, and I would like to keep the cost down as much as I can. Would simply insulating the tubing to the font be good enough???? I thought maybe even running another pipe there and back and set up my own glycol pump the keep it cool.
Not sure on mind you on this, but I have been doing my research, but finding alternate ways it proving difficult. If all else failed I would consider a flooded font, and if so, does anyone know who sells them at a reasionable price. $800 for a two tap font seems crazy if you ask me.
Cheers
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