Up and running...

[gallowd7]

Very, very preliminary setup of my beer engine. I was determined to get it running by the weekend. Note the high tech mounting device.
No breather yet, so I purge the keg and leave the poppit open, pump the beer and at the end of the night I disconnect the "out", pump out the remaining beer and fill the keg back up with 1 psi to cover the beer.
Not very efficient at all and highly offensive to CAMRA.

[gallowd7]

AAARGH! How do I get my pictures to show up?

[YamahaXS]

they must be smaller than 100.000 kbit i believe.

[gallowd7]

OK, thanks. Here they are.

[gallowd7]

Wow, got to be an easier way:

[gallowd7]

This is going to get to 200 posts the cheap way:

[YamahaXS]

wow.... nice job!

[HogieWan]

that looks pretty nice to me.

[HarkJohnny]

yummy! :p

[brewmonkey]

Is that an Anagram CQ engine?

Looks like a good setup to me.

[chazwicke]

OK, it takes me about 45 minutes to get to Annapolis. I'll be there soon!

[Ken Powers]

That is great! I have been meaning to get myself a beer engine at some point. Nice job!

[BrewDog]

Nice Job!

[gallowd7]

It is a CQ 1/2 pint pull. Needed to replace the o-rings on the shaft, but nothing beats a recondition for under $1.
The fridge is from my wife's college days and the cooling unit is the freezer tray. I unscrewed it from the top and covered about 75% of it with spray foam. That gets the temp up to 48. I'll need to spray on some more. I'm curious to see how the engine holds up being outdoors.

Chaz: good news is I'm on your way to the beach and you are welcome anytime to drop by. Bad news is I'm gone for the next three weeekends.

[Trogger]

The beer engine at one of my local brew pubs is used for their IPA. They don’t refrigerate the keg, they just leave it in the basement and pump it up to the bar with the engine, so the bar tender told me. The IPA seems to be between room temp and fridge temp. Interesting and fun little device, they are.

[chazwicke]

In Britian, the proper serving temp of most Real Ale is 50-55 degrees.

[fretlessman71]

Heh - remember when we used to think that beer in the UK was served warm? ;)

[zoom6zoom]

I remember being told by a British sports car enthusiast that the reason for that was that "Lucas also makes refrigerators"...

(to understand the above, it helps to be conversant with the shall we say less than reliable electrical systems of vintage British sportscars...)

[gallowd7]

Originally posted by chazwicke
In Britian, the proper serving temp of most Real Ale is 50-55 degrees.

My thermostat is a "Great Stuff" model and costs 2.99 a can. Slowly but surely I'll dial in the "cellaring" temp. 54 degrees will deliver the beer to the glass differently than my current 48 deg. Right now I'm pulling out more of the 1/2 inch line to warm the beer up.

[old world beer]

looks great.. one of these days... one of these days..

[P-Train]

Congrats!

:D

Wish I had that set up!

One of these days is right...