Show your keg drain....

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Re: Show your keg drain....

Postby badbird » Wed Apr 30, 2014 5:13 pm

Just to balance out all of the nice SS bling, here is the copper and soft solder ghetto version :teasing-tease:
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Re: Show your keg drain....

Postby MacStill » Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:09 pm

cant get much more ghetto than tipping the keg up to empty it, you'll have to lift your game to beat that :laughing-rolling:
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Re: Show your keg drain....

Postby badbird » Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:41 pm

Yer I started that way but after turning the garage floor into a dunder pit I knew I had to do something x_x
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Re: Show your keg drain....

Postby Sam. » Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:00 pm

MacStill wrote:cant get much more ghetto than tipping the keg up to empty it, you'll have to lift your game to beat that :laughing-rolling:


Just shoot a hole near the bottom then patch it after :))
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Re: Show your keg drain....

Postby TheMechwarrior » Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:22 pm

MacStill wrote:cant get much more ghetto than tipping the keg up to empty it, you'll have to lift your game to beat that :laughing-rolling:


That's how I currently do it...~45kg of liquid plus the keg...on rocky uneven ground :violin: no wonder my back is shot.
I've just relocated the brewhaus to the garage for comfort and practicality. This means I can more easily use my trolley for a start!
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Re: Show your keg drain....

Postby spoonjab » Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:32 pm

All I did was turn my keg upside down an use the existing 2inch hole as my bottom drain.
I have my keg sitting on a stand when in use.
When the run is finished I attach a hose and dump the wash in the drain nearby.
easy as.
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Re: Show your keg drain....

Postby Andy » Thu May 01, 2014 11:14 am

MacStill wrote:cant get much more ghetto than tipping the keg up to empty it, you'll have to lift your game to beat that :laughing-rolling:


hit them with a little ghetto gospel. those that wish to follow me. uh my ghetto gospel. i welcome with my hands :music-listening:

Looks good spoonjab.
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Re: Show your keg drain....

Postby bt1 » Thu May 01, 2014 11:51 am

Be keen to a gas users solution... worried about the internal seals of the ball valve melting....lifting these kegs is getting harder :handgestures-thumbdown:

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Re: Show your keg drain....

Postby 7evan » Thu May 01, 2014 12:02 pm

bt1 wrote:Be keen to a gas users solution... worried about the internal seals of the ball valve melting....lifting these kegs is getting harder :handgestures-thumbdown:

bt1


I'm running gas and dont have an issue BT1.

I check the seal often and they look good to me. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Show your keg drain....

Postby Zak Griffin » Thu May 01, 2014 1:08 pm

Just have a piece of pipe between the elbow and the tap, so the tap isn't in the naked flame...
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Re: Show your keg drain....

Postby Sam. » Thu May 01, 2014 3:01 pm

My valves are yet to show any degradation and they can get flame pretty close :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Show your keg drain....

Postby 5 o'clock » Thu May 01, 2014 10:30 pm

5 o'clock wrote:
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3/4 inch bend welded in centre of base, pipe to extend out to edge of keg then another bend and the tap, all in stainless until the tap then a brass hose fitting to attach garden hose to drain into sewer or onto garden.

Assuming you are after design ideas, if I had my time again I would have mounted the elements on the side of the keg relative to the fill port so that I am not worried about spills going onto the elements and they wouldn't get in the way when I am filling the boiler.


Just found another advantage of having a hose connection on my drain.

Finished a run of the most horrible smelling rum I hope to ever smell.

To flush out my whole still I plugged the hose on, flipped the condensers up to the sky and ran water into the boiler until there was a fountain coming out the top. That should flush the crappy stuff out well enough to be able to run a (hopefully) good batch next time.
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