Calling all home brewers! This years must have item.

New addition to the Camper this weekend was a Cornelius keg holding 15 litres of homebrew (Norfolk Nog) on draught.

It's 1st trial run was to the Run to the Hills VW show in Derbyshire. What a difference it made to the bottle conditioned beer i'd been making before! Not only is it easy to move but it's quick to fill and saves washing/sterilizing/filling/capping 40+ bottles out every batch. And because you clarify the beer before you get no dead yeast like in cask or bottle conditioned beers to be stired up on moving.

These were first used to hold soft drink mixes in the states but are being used by the the home brewer wanting to move his beer.


Wrapped in a wet towel to aid cooling.



A mighty - mans drink even in a flowered glass!

The Keg was a bargin £25 of the bay and the gas setup and tapabout another £40 again off the bay in bits and bobs.

At say £1.50 a pint bottle for nice ale it will only take 43 pints to pay for it's self. The 1st batch for it was 40 pints

I've been eyeing up a Cornelius keg for ages - its the gas that is stalling me.

What have you got attached to that and how long has it lasted?

Its the widget gas setup. Not finished a cylinder yet but i'm told 4-5 kegs each. about £5 a refill.

Bit like the widget world photo on here.

Rehosted pic from site above.

I see you've not realised that you can get nitrogen/co2 mix gas for a more authentic guinness brew including the creamy head. Also the amount of gas you have in the beer is far more controllable if you want to make a filtered beer and then gas it up rather than second ferment it.

I'm half saving up for one or two of these, as it would be very convenient. Of course I would have to build a kegerator to go along with them to keep them chilled in my lounge.

I've seen some of the set ups on home brew forums - incredible and dead cheap too.

Then again I'm trying to lose my beer belly so investing in items that will both increase my production and consumption is a bad idea

NickK said:

I see you've not realised that you can get nitrogen/co2 mix gas for a more authentic guinness brew including the creamy head. Also the amount of gas you have in the beer is far more controllable if you want to make a filtered beer and then gas it up rather than second ferment it.

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It's not a stout It's a real ale.

I know all about the nitrogen mix you can get but i hate cream heads. I'm going for the hand pull trad style.

I've also not gassed above 6psi so it's fairly flat. To give fizz you need to gas to 20psi and you literary shake the gas into the brew.

So jealous.
I keep considering kegging, or barrelling my home brew but it's a fair initial investment and my 'brew partner' isn't that keen - as he realizes it'll end up with me having a keg of *our* beer in my flat which will subsequently result in me getting drunk, and finishing all the beer very rapidly.
Fair play to you though - looks great.
Share some more pictures.