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Faucets and Towers

Part four of our Kegging Homebrew video series, Faucets and Towers.

For this video its a quick chat about the ins and outs of faucets.  I use rear sealing faucets but I make a case for why you might want to consider using forward sealing faucets, like Perlicks.

Those faucets come at a slightly higher price tag, but perhaps slightly less maintenance.

I use a wooden collar to mount my faucets because it is pretty straight forward and easy to do.  There’s no worrying about drilling through refrigerant lines or putting permanent holes in the fridge itself.  I think using a collar set up with a chest freezer makes access to the kegs and the lines and tank much easier.

While I haven’t done anything special to the wood of my collar yet, you can always paint it, stain it or dress it up somehow.

Lastly, a lot of people dream of multi-faucet towers with their kegerator.  I had priced several out when thinking about draft beer years ago. In the end, a tower can create issues with dispensing. The beer lines Need to stay cool to keep the beer from foaming up.  Draft towers will need to get heavily insulated, or have a coolant line running up through it, or a fan to circulate cold air out of the freezer and into the tower.

For me it would be a large amount of extra maintenance for something that sits in my garage and only really gets seen by my buddies. Besides, people tend to forget what the kegerator looks like after they get to pour their own beer out of it.

Enjoy this slightly short video as compared to the previous two:

If you have questions we haven’t covered, or things you think we skipped over; let us know.  We have one more video coming up in the series and after that we can do one more to recap and answer questions about kegging.

BREW ON!

More Kegging Homebrew Videos:

Video 1 – Introduction To Kegging Homebrew

Video 2 – Everything You Wanted To Know About Corny Kegs

Video 3 – Learn Something About CO2 Tanks and Regulators

Video 5 – Balancing You Kegging System

Video 6 – Hombrew Kegging Tips

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2 Comments

  1. Linda

    Hey brew dudes !
    Thank you for all the info!!!
    After watching all these videos I have a question
    I’ve set my dial to 10psi and am wondering how long I need to apply this pressure before the contents are good to go. My aim is to bottle the keg after carbonation saturation.

    You guys Rock
    Cheers
    Linda from California

  2. Mike

    Hey Linda!!
    Thanks for following along with us and your kind words. You know I can’t say exactly. I usually go about two weeks at 13-15PSI. I taste the beer every couple days though. I would expect at 10PSI for it to take at least 10 days. Just be patient for the first week then start tasting it. You’ll know when it’s ready. Just don’t drink the whole batch while doing the “testing”! Cheers!

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