My Pressure Barrels
- HomebrewCumbria
- Oct 12, 2020
- 2 min read
I use these pressure barrels for most of my beers, usually my bitters go in these. I find them very easy to use and they save aa lot of time compared to bottling all my beer, I do bottle some usually as way of sharing them with friends.
I've had these particular barrels for 15+ years and had no issues. if you look on line there are often peoples posts saying they have had problems with leaks at from the tap seal, my advice is use plenty of the keg lube (food grade silicone lubricant) or you can use Vaseline but you may get a slight taste from it. Secondly be careful with the seals especially on some of the newer ones they are very soft, so don't over tighten the tap. Mine are just tight enough to compress the seal and that's enough to stop any leak.
Using CO2 with these barrels
You can get these barrels with a simple release type valve or with a two variants of the S30 valve one without a pin that you can use with a L30 S30 CO2 cylinder. shown below. I used to use these but found it difficult to get a replacement cylinder locally, so changed my valves to the S30 with Pin that allows you to use CO2 bulbs that can be found in your local Wilco's or online with reasonable postage costs.
Modifications I've made
You can see in the photo above I've added a tyre valve this allowed me to measure the pressure in the barrels when using the Cylinder or the Bulbs with a tyre pressure gauge. simple to fit and works well.
Since I added a couple of Cornelius kegs to my kit I've decided to standardise all my CO2 valves so I can use a singe source for all my vessels.
To do this I'm modifying the barrels as they become empty (after I've drank every drop of beer from them!!) by adding Ball lock valves that are usually fitted to Corny kegs, this way I can now use my CO2 supply (which i will cover in another blog) to carbonate the beer in the barrels and maintain pressure throughout serving.
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