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Confused by C02 connectors

Post by snake » Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:53 pm

Hi all,

I have a King Keg with what I think is S30 connection. I'm thinking of buying a corny keg system in addition - I'll use the king keg for real ale types and the corny for lagers or american IPAs. As far as I can see you can run a big, pub style CO2 tank into a corny keg, or get a converter for a soda stream type. I'd like to just have one CO2 source to worry about.

So: am I right in thinking that a sodastream bottle is not the same connector as an S30? Is the usual connection from a big tank different from both? Is there a way to have one gas source for both king keg and corny? Is the setup I'm thinking of silly?

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Re: Confused by C02 connectors

Post by PeeBee » Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:06 pm

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The Sodastream bottle is not the same connector as S30.

You will have a "regulator" to get the pressure down, then connect that up to kegs using whatever is suitable. John Guest connectors are popular (I think they are naff, but I'm just out-of-step with "what's popular").

Bottles containing liquid CO2 have a lot of pressure. About 860 PSI. Get a big cylinder and that is a lot of gas at 860 PSI! Do it right!
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Cask-conditioned style ale out of a keg/Cornie (the "treatise"): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwzEv5 ... rDKRMjcO1g
Water report demystified (the "Defuddler"; removes the nonsense!): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

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Re: Confused by C02 connectors

Post by snake » Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:12 pm

And of course I missed the comprehensive info written by PeeBee! Thanks both for writing it and pointing me in the right direction.

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Re: Confused by C02 connectors

Post by PeeBee » Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:20 pm

snake wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:12 pm
And of course I missed the comprehensive info written by PeeBee! Thanks both for writing it and pointing me in the right direction.
There's not "both", just me (thank goodness the others are thinking, we don't want two PeeBees, one is more than enough). I wrote the guide too.
Cask-conditioned style ale out of a keg/Cornie (the "treatise"): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwzEv5 ... rDKRMjcO1g
Water report demystified (the "Defuddler"; removes the nonsense!): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

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Re: Confused by C02 connectors

Post by guypettigrew » Sun Feb 21, 2021 8:22 pm

PeeBee wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:20 pm
we don't want two PeeBees, one is more than enough).
Having just checked this on my logarithmic quantum deep dive calculator I've worked out that even half a PeeBee would be too much. The optimum amount for high quality brewing seems to be one quarter of a PeeBee.

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Re: Confused by C02 connectors

Post by PeeBee » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:08 pm

guypettigrew wrote:
Sun Feb 21, 2021 8:22 pm
Having just checked this on my logarithmic quantum deep dive calculator ...
:-P ... cheeky so-and-so. Wait until my exponential clone generator is fixed and there's a few hundred of me: That'll sort you.
Cask-conditioned style ale out of a keg/Cornie (the "treatise"): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwzEv5 ... rDKRMjcO1g
Water report demystified (the "Defuddler"; removes the nonsense!): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

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Re: Confused by C02 connectors

Post by Trefoyl » Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:51 pm

PeeBee wrote:
Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:08 pm
:-P ... cheeky so-and-so. Wait until my exponential clone generator is fixed and there's a few hundred of me: That'll sort you.
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Re: Confused by C02 connectors

Post by guypettigrew » Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:10 pm

That's scary---really scary!!

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