tell me about your keg exeriences.

[alienfry]

so we've always just brought beer in cans because it's easy to crush the cans and transport them home easy.

but

i mean, it'd taste better in a bottle and of course that's a huge waste of space so . . .

we're tossing the idea around of bringing a keg (which is 240 12 oz beers right?)

we have two concerns:

1. keeping the thing cold. how?

2. making it last. ration? how?

discuss.

[Tiara]

1. keeping the thing cold. how?

Bring a plastic garbage can. Insert keg. Pour 4-6 bags of ice around keg. Repeat.


As for rationing, a system I saw used before was that only people who contributed to buying the keg could pour beer from it. Other people who wanted a drink had to get one of the "owners" to pour.

[tonka]

how are you going to combat the dehydration/peeing problem? thats gonna be a bitch drinking beer all that time. bring LOTS of water. shade. and hope the beer doesnt contribute to your lack of proper hydration

[melanie]

The deal with bringing a keg is how long do you plan to have it around? If you plan to drink it within 24 hours of tapping it, you're good. But if you want it for several days, you have to have a CO2 system, or you will have flat beer. Other than that, get it ice cold before you go, and keep it cold. The person who mentioned the garbage can was right. Some of my campmates brought a keg of Hamm's last year, and did not bring a co2 system, so we just wanted to drink it in a day. We invited everyone on our block and round the 'hood to come have a draft beer and sing the Hamm's theme.... "From the land of sky blue water......"

[manowar]

The people I camped with last year always had a cold keg to offer (At least everyone said it was cold, since I don't drink we'll have to take their word for it.) The way they did it was to hook the keg spigot up to a buch of plastic tubing like you use for an ice maker. This tubing was then coiled through a cooler filled with ice and connected to a second spigot on the front of the cooler.

[melanie]

What manowar is talking about is a jockey box, which is, again, hooked up to a co2 system. Jockey boxes are great, because the coils in the box (usually a small cooler with a handle) are covered in ice, and the beer does get chilled in the line. But you still need to keep that keg on ice, regardless of where you are, and especially on the playa. If you have a connection to get hooked up with one of these, you are so stoked. But you still need lots of ice.

[gilmore]

Question #1
Plastic 30-33 gal garbage can.
Insert keg & top off with chunks/blocks of ice.
Wrap whole she-bang with blankets and/or sleeping bags.
Always keep it pumped up (pressurized) or it'll go flat.

Question#2
Rationing... Please it's a desert.

[Ozone]

Yes, we did a jockey box last year and it was great. Except we should have got CO2--the beer was cold but slow. We way over-estimated the number of kegs we needed also. Probably because it was running slow and thus hard to give away. We needed to make an ice trip everyday, but we were also using the jockey box for cold water.



This is what one type looks like.

This gives you an idea of the CO2 set-up--though I haven't rigged one of these yet.

[Mr Sin]

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/