Keg Beer

Pretty sure that as long as you keep CO2 pressure on them that they are good indefinitely. Kegs never last long enough for me to find out around here!

Cool, been reading up on it a lot this week and I know for sure that I will buy a CO2 tank for it.

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Keep in mind, heavy beers like Guinness require a different tank than say, and American light beer.

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Guinness isn't a heavy beer - its actually quite light in comparison to most beers.

Either way, while you'd ideally serve Guinness with beergas (nitrogen+co2) instead of straight co2, you can still serve it with only co2. You just won't get the same creamy head that you'd get pushing it with beergas.

The thing that probably will prevent most people from putting a keg of Guinness in their kegerator is the fact that it requires a different coupler than most american beers. For that matter, a lot of european beers use a third type.

I used to have one and always used one of these:



Holds about 60 beers. Most of the microbreweries use them anyways.

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Beer will never go bad in a keg or bottle.. Its flavor just changes over t

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Which is what I consider 'going bad.'

When I bartended in hunstville, I got a lot of insight from a very wise older guy who was and had been a distributor for Bud for decades. According to him, kegged beer does, in fact, go bad. Bud would exchange unopned kegs that had been sitting in a cooler for a long period of times with new ones.

Look at getting 1/4 barrels or pony kegs so you're not stuck with the same beer for as long. And make sure your fridge can handle the weight of a full keg. Those things are not light.

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Look at getting 1/4 barrels or pony kegs so you're not stuck with the same beer for as long. And make sure your fridge can handle the weight of a full keg. Those things are not light.

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Good call. You would want to have some support under the fridge for a full keg, or even half. I too, recommend getting smaller kegs. Much easier to toss around, and if you want a change of beers, you don't have to finish off a full keg.

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how long the keg beer will stay good?

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Depends on the date the beer was produced. Kegs will have some kind of date code on them you can use to tell when it was produced. If refrigerated, most normal beers should taste fine for 3 or 4 months or more from when it was produced.

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Here is my setup:

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That really makes me want to do this should I ever have the room. Which room of the house do you keep this? I figure something like this would have to go in a garage.

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We have a formal dining room that we have never used that we turned into a party type room for cards and get togethers.

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A friend of mine did this as well and had the dining room tiled just like the kitchen. He went a step further and built an entire bar from scratch. He got some plans online and built it over the course of a few months. Only thing it's lacking is having a water line run to it for a sink and ice machine but according to him it would have been a real pain to do and expensive. The bar is right by the kitchen so not like it's a big deal.