Perlick 630ss

Comment by David M on November 9, 2014 at 7:47pm

Great setup. Nice how you integrated the STC1000. Where do you store your gas bottle - in the fridge or external?

Comment by Dave on November 10, 2014 at 10:24am

It is external, I was able to feed the pipe through with one of the coolant hoses.  

Comment by Peter Smith on November 10, 2014 at 11:39am

can you take another picture of the gas manifold and talk me through your thinking.....  re carbonating then serving beers

Comment by Dave on November 10, 2014 at 1:13pm

I wanted to try and keep things as simple (and cheaply) as possible.

One of these would have been just the job but the price was a bit out of my league.   

I found the manifold you can see from here. It is simply a hollow square tube with threaded holes.

Works perfectly the only thing I wasn't expecting was that "extra" hole on the top which didn't come with a fitting. Fortunately I had that gauge which I purchased a while ago intending to upgrade the gauge on the low pressure side of my regulator but it didn't fit.

The main Co2 enters from the right and is distributed accordingly. I have blanked the left most fitting for now.

With regard to carbonation and serving pressure. I'm not a fan of super chilled and over carbonated beer. I have found that somewhere around 6-8 psi at 10 degs C provides enough pressure to serve and will carbonated the beer after about seven days to my desired level. 

Comment by Peter Smith on November 10, 2014 at 1:38pm

I really like that setup and at $15 I am sold...   where did you get the pressure guage?

Comment by Dave on November 10, 2014 at 10:55pm

The Gauge was from http://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/gauge30psi.htm

I bought it along with some fittings and the RIMS tube.

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