Comments on: A portable CO2 setup for serving homebrew out of kegs http://alexwetmore.org/archives/444 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:41:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: AlexWetmore http://alexwetmore.org/archives/444/comment-page-1#comment-3915 AlexWetmore Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:56:39 +0000 /blogs/alex_wetmore/archive/2006/07/26/a-portable-co2-setup-for-serving-homebrew-out-of-kegs.aspx#comment-3915 I haven''t killed either of my paintball cylinders yet. I expect that they''ll deliver about 10 kegs of beer. Force carbonating is another issue. It takes a higher volume of CO2 to do that, and I expect that you''d kill a cylinder after doing a keg or two. I find that I get about two years of life out of a 20lb CO2 cylinder (I might make 20 kegs of beer in that time). I probably lose some of that to leakage, purging of fermentation tanks, etc, but that is still 20x larger than the small paintball cylinders. I don''t think that the paintball cylinders would be large enough to be the primary source of CO2 for a homebrewer. I haven”t killed either of my paintball cylinders yet. I expect that they”ll deliver about 10 kegs of beer.

Force carbonating is another issue. It takes a higher volume of CO2 to do that, and I expect that you”d kill a cylinder after doing a keg or two. I find that I get about two years of life out of a 20lb CO2 cylinder (I might make 20 kegs of beer in that time). I probably lose some of that to leakage, purging of fermentation tanks, etc, but that is still 20x larger than the small paintball cylinders. I don”t think that the paintball cylinders would be large enough to be the primary source of CO2 for a homebrewer.

]]> By: Dave http://alexwetmore.org/archives/444/comment-page-1#comment-3914 Dave Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:48:36 +0000 /blogs/alex_wetmore/archive/2006/07/26/a-portable-co2-setup-for-serving-homebrew-out-of-kegs.aspx#comment-3914 I just found your site while researching using paintball CO2 cylinders for dispensing from kegs. You say you got 4 kegs dispensed, did you ever find out what the maximum number of kegs you could dispense from one cylinder was? I''m also wondering if it might be possible to force carbonate a couple of kegs from them too. I just found your site while researching using paintball CO2 cylinders for dispensing from kegs. You say you got 4 kegs dispensed, did you ever find out what the maximum number of kegs you could dispense from one cylinder was? I”m also wondering if it might be possible to force carbonate a couple of kegs from them too.

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