Pressure Barrels

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Permalink Reply by Doublehoppy on August 8, 2009 at 12:33pm

Yes, I use them. I think they are very good for serving relatively low carbonated beer - like english ale. They do deliver a very frothy head but once this settles you get a nice low level of carbonation, but with no prickleness you would need for certain styles. They aren't suitable for lagers.

You will need a way of supplementing the natural pressure as the keg empties and the ullage space increases. A sodastream bottle with an attachment does the trick.

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Permalink Reply by Craig on August 8, 2009 at 12:44pm

Ok thanks for your help. Do you need to naturally carbonate at all? Can you just put the flat beer in and carbonate with the Co2?

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Permalink Reply by Doublehoppy on August 8, 2009 at 1:39pm

In theory I guess you can. Not sure why you would want to do this thou? It's pretty simply to boil 80 - 100 gm white sugar then add to the keg, then add the beer from primary into it. I do also remove all the O2 with a couple of zaps from the sodastream bottle.

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