by Permaclutter » Sun Feb 03, 2019 9:09 pm
Spiltdrink Hi, i have really enjoyed how stable the keg is, it has 4 legs of 2" 316 ss that extend to the outside dimension of it. I started off with a squat i think cub keg back in about 2000 on gas wrapped in corro and then lagged with rockwool with no drain port. i had a kitchen sink with hot and cold water and ale and stout taps back then. Had a batch of beer go shitty and built the "apparatus for home distilling" type thing to deal with it. Poor mature age uni students with an oxy set and lots of scrap metal couldn't afford to chuck out a keg of beer. That was fairly shit but soon led to a Nixon Stone LM sort of thing. Beer kept being produced by the 50L keg full, turbo tasted shit compared to off beer and as it was all 50L batches a 50L keg was too small as a boiler, Built the next still got divorced got a real job spent money on piss at the pub lived in a shed etc. 15 years later ive still got the 18Gall keg we used for stout and talking to an old mate it turns out he has the column and head of the last still in his shed and now we have a wine maker mate over the road, distilling just had to happen again but no way was i ever going to not have a drain or a fill port. the keg had a maybe 2" hygienic fitting on its side so that got an adapter to 3" easy flange and some legs glued on. Send before i get timed out.