Corney keg size?

[barley ben]

Can anyone tell me the size of their kegs. I just got my spare fridge and am wondering if I can fit 2 or 3 kegs inside (A.K.A. how many taps to drill holes for.) Height and diameter would be great. NO MORE BOTTLES!!!!!!!! Well, in a month or so.

[Jughead]

I use coke cornys. With the disconnects and hoses, they are 24.25" high and 9.25" wide. I think the pepsi are slightly thinner and taller.

[barley ben]

That's great!!! 3 will fit no problem and I believe the tank will fit also. Not real worried about the tank though, it can go outside if it has to. Thanks for the info.

[danno]

my pepsi cornys are 25" tall, and 8.5" diameter. as Jughead said, slightly taller and slightly thinner. This is without QD's though, so be sure to take that into consideration... (i'd head out to the garage to measure with QD's, except it's too flippin' cold right now. last reading was -5ºF...)

[toneyc]

Hey, what does that little "-" in front of the number mean? When I brewed Sunday, it was almost 80ºF outside. Today it is supposed to be in the 40s. Did one of you guys leave the fridge open?

:)
Toney.

[DarCoop]

Originally posted by toneyc
Hey, what does that little "-" in front of the number mean? When I brewed Sunday, it was almost 80ºF outside. Today it is supposed to be in the 40s. Did one of you guys leave the fridge open?
I am with Toney---glad it is cool enough here to finally to turn off A/C. Was 78F here over weekend, finally a cold 30F this morning. Guess I must put shorts and sandals away for a few days.

[barley ben]

Thanks again guys. Wasn't as worried about how high as much as the diameter. This weekend I'm buying the faucets and needed to know how many kegs I could fit. Would kinda suck if I mounted 3 taps and then found out I can only fit 2 kegs.

One more question, do you usually run the same pressure to all you kegs or do you run each keg at different pressure. Just don't know which way I'm gonna swing for the gas lines. triple regulator or the cheaper co2 distributer that only opens and closes.

[danno]

i run all my beer at 10psi, and my sodas at 30psi. I guess it depends on your preference. Take a look at Northern Brewer's (http://www.northernbrewer.com/docs/html/corny-keg.html) kegging instructions, halfway or so down the page is a quick list of some styles and their recommended volumes of co2 for carbonation.

[barley ben]

I pretty much understand that, but my question was more less do people lean towards multiple regulators or a co2 splitter. Most of the pictures i've seen show some type of distributor in the gas line to run multiple kegs and I have let to see any that use multiple regulators so they can adjust the kegs one by one. I know that the distributors only open and close and do not control psi in the keg like a regulator. So do most of you just run the same psi to each keg in a multiple keg set-up? One regulator at one set psi to multple kegs.

[barley ben]

But on that soda thing, thats good info because I was thinking about having two beer faucets and one soda. Guess i will need another regulator or seperate tank for that?

[Jughead]

I only added my second tap a month or two ago, but so far I run both taps off of the same regulator. I just put a "Y" in the gas line. It's a cost thing. If I had money to burn on more regulators, I'd go that way, just because of the flexibility. However, I really have no complaints with running two beers off the same regulator.

[barley ben]

thats the way I'm planning on going, just wanted some feed-back before I do it, just to make sure I'm doing it right. As far as soda, it will be a while till I make that. have to have fun with the beer on tap first!!

[tj beerman]

Has anyone tried getting corny's directly from there local pepsi or coke distributor. I have both and was going to give them a call on monday.

[Jughead]

Yes I did. Coke was nice enough to give me the name of their recycler. Pepsi was somewhat rude and would not help me at all.

I have heard that Coke will go so far in some areas as to puncture their old kegs so that they cannot be used again.

Of course each distrubutor is going to be different, so good luck.

[Beerconnoisseur]

Originally posted by barley ben
But on that soda thing, thats good info because I was thinking about having two beer faucets and one soda. Guess i will need another regulator or seperate tank for that?

Yes, a 2-way regulator (http://www.morebeer.com/detail.php3?pid=D1067B) will provide 2 different pressures for your soda/beer setup. Here (http://www.leeners.com/kegginghow2.html) is a guide, so you can decide if getting a 2-way or 3-way regulator is best for your needs.

Other times you might want different pressures are if you have different length beer line for individual kegs. Maybe you want your "Loft Belgian Ale" running up to your attic, while the "Cellar Dwellar Barley Wine" is in the basement where you keep your kegs/CO2 tank. Then the additional line (and gravity) will provide more resistance, so you need more pressure.

[barley ben]

No, nothing running to the attic. Just three kegs in a fridge with three taps on the door. Line length is not an issue.

[barley ben]

Let me rephrase that. Extended line length is not an issue. Only to balance out the pressure to the taps which will be 1 foot away. So I will only have a few feet of beer line.