Pressure barrel and tap help

[BROADE]

Hi they I have looked through about half a dozen threads. And can't get a clear answer. I want to move away from bottles and get a pressure barrel. I would like to know. Once I have racked of and added to pb. Can I get some pipe and connect it to a standard hand tap I got from a pub. If so what would I need. And how to go about it. Or would pressure in barrel just come through tap as normal. If I keep injecting co2.. I not got barrel yet. Hand tap I have in bar is founders all day ipa.

 

[AnimatedGIF]

I imagine unless you have a regulator to keep pressure constant, you'd struggle with inconsitent flow from the tap. I was going to do something similar, but didn't get anywhere close to hooking the thing up as the pressure barrel I bought had a pinhole leak. I then bought a corny, and, well, I now have a full CO2 + keg setup - it's a slippery slope...
Also, I fall in to the category of people who will say "Don't waste your money on a pressure barrel!"

 

[Buffers brewery]

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/pint365-beer-engine.88549/
Is this what you mean? Or are you talking about a beer tap like you find on kegerators etc.?

 

[BROADE]

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/pint365-beer-engine.88549/
Is this what you mean? Or are you talking about a beer tap like you find on kegerators etc.?

Yes some thing like that. Not a hand pull but a free flow tap. I was going to use co2 to keep pushing air in rather than a pump

 

[Buffers brewery]

If you haven't bought a plastic pressure barrel yet and you want to dispense through a beer tap I'd agree with @AnimatedGIF and advise going down the corny Keg route. I'm a King Keg user and am in the process of connecting a tap. Yet to prove it works. Not entirely straight forward.

 

[terrym]

Before anyone buys a PB they should read through these
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/whats-your-view-on-plastic-pressure-barrels-pbs.88283https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/...ls-or-bottles-for-your-home-brewed-beer.88284Opinion is more or less divided on whether they are a wise investment, their main faults being they can leak under pressure, or need a lot of attention to make them work as they should. And the basic PBs seem to be less reliable than King Kegs but a that's probably because they cost less. But when they work properly they are really convenient

 

[Rodcx500z]

I bought another in wilkos today so i now have 3 wilko and 1 youngs, the one i bought today has the round profile o ring in the lid will swap that for the square one which i think are better at making a proper seal but thats just my opinion they have a larger surface area and don't deform as much

 

[CD]

I bought another in wilkos today so i now have 3 wilko and 1 youngs, the one i bought today has the round profile o ring in the lid will swap that for the square one which i think are better at making a proper seal but thats just my opinion they have a larger surface area and don't deform as much

I have never had a lot of trouble with the PB tops that seal on a fat ‘O’ ring, apart from one that one of the locating ribs had come off. This picture shows the offending item, and a typical failure on one of the modern tops.

I don’t know whether it is well known, but they altered the thread slightly at some point. The give-away is the width of the inner land of the thread, marked in black, the wider one being the earlier type. They are interchangeable after a fashion, but if a top seems tight or wobbly that’s the reason.

 

[Rodcx500z]

My youngs one i have to change the top seal every 10 brews which is a pita so i am going to ditch it or use it as a fermenter

 

[kelper]

The Pint365 beer engine can be connected directly to a PB and works well. Pint365 - Home Beer like you have never tasted before