Anybody ever use an antique ceramic keg?

[septic]

Hi knowledgeable and experienced brewers. I have no idea what I am doing. I am currently waiting for some up-cycled olive oil flip-top bottles of cider to start exploding in my fridge. But I ran across this:

I was thinking of buying it and pounding in this:

And then sterilising as best as possible and just pouring in some cider and then feeling happy while drawing pints of drink from old-timey kit.

Questions:

1.) Has anyone done this?
2.) Is it feasible to drill another hole for some low pressure CO2 to displace the O2 and inhibit microbial growth?

Thoughts?

 

[Victor Churchill]

Pounding hard wood things into ceramic container sounds risky to me. I know in the dim & distant I have seen taps that can be inserted into a rubber demijohn bung (possibly with a 1/4" poly tube between)
Pretty cask though.

 

[Stevieboy]

Reckon you'll need a drilled cork or rubber bung. Fun though.

 

[septic]

Thank you gentlemen for your thoughts. I like the idea of drilled corks and rubber bungs -- not a bad band name either. I will give those some thought.

Does anyone have any idea how these sorts of containers were used/made to function -- eg, how is it that these containers were tapped when they were in use?

 

[AJA]

Is that not for soda/ginger beer?
Sure I've seen them on Bargain Hunt.

 

[Stevieboy]

drilled corks and rubber bungs -- not a bad band name either

There was a local band a few years back in the Bournemouth area called Liquer and Poker.....