Beer Barrel Recommendation with a pressure meter?

Never seen or heard of anything like it...

--------->Denny

I always thought you could buy such an item, let me explain.

I have a KING KEG pressure barrel but always seem to have trouble with low pressure with beer coming out a tricke when the keg is half empty. C02 cannister bursts in through top valve of keg seems to only improve pressure matters slightly and there appears to be no leaks in keg.

Is it me or do you professional homerbrewers use some form of pressure gauge/meter to the take guesswork out of maintaining pressure in the keg.

DC

I have no idea about your situation, I'm afarid...never heard of the product you're talking about. I use 5 gal. SS soda kegs, a CO2 tank, and regulator. The guages on the tank give me the info you're looking for. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

-------->Denny

Thanks for your comment.

Having looked at websites on the regulator you mention below in your reply, this appears to be the bit I'm missing from my setup which would take guess work out with barrel pressures.

Many thanks you've put me on the right track which I'll now investigate.

regards DC

Denny what pressure are you running at with your soda tank setup as I am seting up a similar system now

I like about 2.5-2.75 volumes of CO2 in my beer. I set my fridge at

40F, so I carbonate to about 12 psi. There's a relationship between carbonation, temp. and pressure you have to maintain.

--------->Denny

thanks much as I plan on keeping my frig temp about the same as I also plan on storing potatoes in the bottom containers which I can often get very cheep on sale at times and other time full retail so I tend to buy 15-20 lb extra when there on sale I am also puting in a stout faucet powered by a 4th 5 gal corny soda keg and a nitrogen tank and regulator running 75%/25 % co2 and nitrogen

My wife grows LOTS of potatoes and we keep them in back of the kegs in the beer fridge...must just be a natural thing to do!

----------->Denny