Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Kegerator Project - Let there be beer

Well here is my Witbier poured from my Kegerator. I got my Co2 bottle filled up today and just hooked up a keg. I did hit a little snag in that my adapter to fit two beer lines to one gas regulator has gone walk about. I am pretty sure it came with the regulator so somewhere between getting the stuff at work and bringing it home it got lost, or I lost it in my house somewhere. This means I can only hook up one keg at a time until I get a new one.

Anyway from the picture you can see An Bán Oráiste pours like a Belgian Wit should. In fact, it looks better than from the bottle as the yeast is not everywhere. Compare it to the sample from the bottle a few weeks back. It has less flavour than the bottle as I am missing all the yeasty goodness but it is actually very respectable and if you like Hoegaarden then you will like this. The spice comes out better on draught as it was overpowered by the yeast and orange in the bottle.
I am very chuffed with myself now. Once I get my double adapter I will have two beers on draught at any one time. I think I wasted a little Co2 before I got the hang of my regulator but it should be ok.
Posted by TaleOfAle at 6:54 PM

3 comments:

  1. I was just telling my wife I have to get some corny kegs. I'll have to wait till we have room for a sexy keggerator like your though :)
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  2. That's pretty cool! It still sounds too complicated to me to be worth the effort though. Is it? It sounds like a good beer experience, but it was good before this too? I'm sure I'm not understanding fully. Nice job though!
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  3. It is certainly worth it for a number of reasons.
    1. Kegging beer is far quicker and easier than bottling it.
    2. It is beyond cool being able to pour your own beer from a draught system.
    3. It is easier than it looks to build one.

    So there you have it. Oh I have seen complicated Kegerator instructions but when it came time to do my own, I found it was easier than I thought. I guess it depends on the fridge you get. The only hard thing was getting the time to get my co2 bottle filled.

    Oh and you can still bottle some beer from the taps if you want to give some away.
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