re: Anybody brew their own beer?

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Yeah, I just realized you had to buy and use a pressure pouch with each 5L batch. The mini-keg looks interesting, I may get one and if I like it, pick up 2 more. They hold 1 and 1/3rd gallon, so I guess that will get me most of a 5 gallon brew.. or do you think one should just load one mini-keg at a time and keep the rest of the brew in the secondary fermenter for a while?

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If you don't have a kegging system in place (which is the ideal solution for all but portable situations), then I'd buy enough of the mini kegs to fill whenever they're done in your secondary. Siphoning multiple times from the secondary increases your chances for getting a spoiled batch, not to mention being a pain in the arse to siphon off a gallon at a time.

If you do have a kegging system, you can just have your keg rigged up and fill one mini keg at a time. Of course, you'd only do this for portable purposes if you've got a kegerator in place.