Storing Unused Homebrew Kegs | Homebrew Finds

How do you retailer your homebrew kegs when not in use? I’d say there are three ways in which homebrewers sometimes retailer kegs.

1. Closed and below stress
2. Closed and no stress
3. Open and no stress

I’m going to undergo every choice with some execs and cons.

Closed/No Stress

Check out the image above. That’s an AEB keg. It was sealed in March with no stress. Model new and clear in my temperature managed basement. The image above was taken after a 7 month take a look at. The keg remained closed and in a temperature managed atmosphere your complete time. As you’ll be able to see quantity of condensation fashioned regardless of initially showing dry.

I’m going to say that storing a keg closed with out stress is the worst strategy to retailer kegs. There isn’t any approach to make sure that the keg is freed from moisture.

Closed Beneath Stress

I haven’t personally observed condensation points when storing a pressurized keg. My guess is that the stress makes condensation much less probably.  I do know this can be a fashionable methodology for storing kegs with a foremost motive being… if it’s nonetheless below stress while you go to make use of it, you may be positive it’s leak free. Some individuals take this a step additional and sanitize earlier than pressurizing, so the keg is “able to go.”

This system has some downsides for my part.

1. This places o-rings below un-needed fixed compression. I do know we need to consider keg o-rings are everlasting, however they’re removed from it. They get brittle and put on out – Associated: How Usually Ought to You Exchange Keg O-Rings.
2. I feel this can be a waste of CO2.  Sure, it’s not an enormous quantity of CO2, however it’s not a trivial quantity both.
3. After we do that, we’re additionally nonetheless probably trapping some moisture within the keg.
4. So far as sanitizer goes, I don’t need to have any dampness in my empty kegs, even when it’s sanitizer. The sanitizer goes to pool on the backside and the edges and prime can be principally dry. I’d a lot moderately keg right into a freshly sanitized keg with nonetheless moist surfaces and elements. Associated: Star San Ideas & Methods

Open No Stress

From my AEB Keg Evaluate

I’ll make the case that that is the best way to go. Clear, dry with the keg lid cracked open or hanging from a submit. Air can get in, no trapped moisture and no CO2 wanted. A fast rinse and sanitize and the keg is sweet to go. For kegs saved over an extended time period a fast PBW soak, rinse and sanitize.

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