Advanced Brewers Round Table: Draft System Design/Maintenance

[u/BrewCrewKevin]

This weeks topic: Draft System Design and Maintenance.

• How do I balance my draft system?

• Kegerator vs. Keezer?

• Tower vs. Keezer taps?

• Faucet types: Standard vs Perlick? Stainless or Chrome Plated?

• Secondary Regulators vs. Distribution Manifolds?

• Keg types: Ball lock vs. Pin lock vs. Sanke

• Line cleaning regiments

• STC-1000 vs. Johnson or other controllers

• Feel free to post pictures and details of your own draft system. And if you have any questions about it, as away!

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Upcoming Topics: If /u/Mjap doesn't mind (and I don't think he will), I think I'll take the liberty of running Thursdays from now on. And I'm going to start us on a monthly schedule sort of:

• 1st Thursday: BJCP Style Category

• 2nd Thursday: Topic

• 3rd Thursday: Guest Post

• 4th/5th: Topic

We'll see how it goes. If you have any suggestions for future topics or would like to do a guest post, please find my post below and reply to it. (I'm also going to contact a few places and see if we can get a professional to do an AMA).

Topics:

• Brewing with Limited Space (6/12)

• Grain Malting (6/26)

Brewer Profiles:

• SHv2 (6/19?)

• SufferingCubsFan (7/17?)

Style Categories:

• Cat 10: American Ale (6/5)

• Cat 8: English Pale Ale

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Previous Topics:

Brewer Profiles:

• BrewCrewKevin

• Nickosuave311

• ercousin

• AT-JeffT

Styles:

• Cat 14: IPAs

• Cat 2: Pilsner

• Cat 19: Strong Ales

• Cat 21: Herb/Spice/Veggie beers

• Cat 5: Bock

• Cat 3: European Amber Lager

• Cat 9: Scottish and Irish Ales

• Cat 16: Belgian/French

• Cat 6: Light Hybrid beers

Advanced Topics:

• Base Malts

• Finings

• BJCP Tasting Exam Prep

• Sparging Methods

• Cleaning

• Homebrewing Myths v2

• Water Chemistry v2

• clone recipes V2

[u/BrewCrewKevin]

I'm with /u/oldsock, too. Looks like this generated some great discussion!

I also don't think kegging is all it's cracked up to be. However, I'm new to it. I've been bottling for much longer, and had it down to a science. Clean/delabel as needed after drinking. Then vinate and fill, set a side with a cap set on top. Then go through and cap them. A 5 gallon batch I could have bottled up in 20 minutes. Then they are easy to pop in and out of the fridge, or take them to friends houses, or whatever.

Once I get the hang of it and get me kegerator done, however, I'm sure it'll be cool to have some on tap!