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Re: Kegerator Upgrade for Guinness

Brown145 — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:20:28 -0000

Check a local pub that serves Guinness. If you need to make friends with the bar manager. I worked at a pub in college and I get all my kegs through them.

Re: Kegerator Upgrade for Guinness

Jesse — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:13:22 -0000

Where do you guys live ?! Im in Montréal, Québec, Canada and the only place I can find kegs are at the Beer Store in Ontario (2hr drive), and they obviously don't have any Guinness :(

Re: Kegerator Upgrade for Guinness

Greg Allard — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:41:43 -0000

Great idea. Done. Thanks for the donations.

Re: Kegerator Upgrade for Guinness

doug — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:54:30 -0000

You should add a link in the nav for 'donate'.

Re: Kegerator Upgrade for Guinness

Durkin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:53:57 -0000

Some friends & I put together our own Guinness tap system last year, for roughly your same costs. Guinness itself, however, has gone up 15% since last year. For our St. Patrick's Day Party we have scaled down the psi to 18-22 psi to accommodate the thirsty masses -- it's a faster pour but not organoleptically significantly different pint and we go through the first keg in less than 3 hours. We ratchet it up the next day for the purists that are left. It saves on the N2/CO2 tank and does not appreciably diminish a fresh keg.

Re: Kegerator Upgrade for Guinness

Greg Allard — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:17:50 -0000

Adjusted the psi and temperature for the guinness keg just a bit based on the recommendation of a Guinness delivery guy. 28 psi and 35 degrees F.

Re: Kegerator Upgrade for Guinness

billymcclure — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:56:33 -0000

Rock.

Re: Keg Empty

Greg Allard — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:46:40 -0000

Oh and the pony kegs are a bit more than half of that so probably about 90 pounds.

Re: Keg Empty

Greg Allard — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:39:22 -0000

About 160lbs. Getting it up stairs is a good workout. Or good for getting your back sore for a couple days.

Re: Keg Empty

joe — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:31:11 -0000

how much dose a 16 gallon and a 8 gallon keg weigh

Re: The Kegbot Ideas are back on the Drawing Board

Greg Allard — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:00:09 -0000

Thanks for the links. I'll probably go without the weight detection and automatic pour since I would like to be able to tilt the glass and I don't have all standard sized glasses. I think measuring how much flows out will be the method I use.

Re: The Kegbot Ideas are back on the Drawing Board

Phelps — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:12:12 -0000

Arduinos are pretty fun. There is already plenty of code for sending tweets from an Arduino, but I'm not sure what hardware you would want to use for dispensing. If you already have some sort of electronic tap in mind, that would be best, although a servo on the handle could work too.

Sparkfun has some fingerprint scanners that may be the way to go for IDing your drinkers.

http://www.sparkfun.com/commer...

It's kinda pricy, but once it is setup, it just spits out a unique serial string, which is perfect for bringing into an Arduino.

I would probably use a flex sensor to detect both when a glass is under the tap (whatever your glasses weigh) and when it has dispensed the right amount ("A pint's a pound the world around!")

http://www.sparkfun.com/commer...

Glass on sensor
Swipe Fingerprint
Dispense frothy goodness
weigh out a pound
wait for flex sensor to register glass leaving
send gratz via tweet

Re: The Kegbot Ideas are back on the Drawing Board

Tim Rosenblatt — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:46:23 -0000

Join us.
http://groups.google.com/group...

Re: Keg Status: Operational

Thomas — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:54:46 -0000

I've been swapping it out with new ones while everyone is sleeping.

Re: Keg Status: Operational

Greg — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:59:16 -0000

The keg still lives on, despite our efforts to deplete it!