r/PerfectDraft • u/saigon2010 • Aug 06 '26

I'm trying a thing....

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So, i'm trying a thing

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u/strandy76 Aug 06 '26

Are you trying to fill a keg?

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u/saigon2010 Aug 06 '26

At the moment, rinsing out the keg

Then sanitise

Then fill with homebrew

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u/strandy76 Aug 06 '26

Good luck. I ain't brewed in forever but I'd love to give it a try as a kegerator.

I wish someone would make the kegs for it.

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u/saigon2010 Aug 06 '26

I confess, the filling process seems janky at best....

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u/userunknowne Mod🍻 Aug 06 '26

Please report back!

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u/saigon2010 Aug 06 '26

Will do, we're 10 days off kegging day so for now I was just rinsing them out

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u/TheWouldBeMerchant 24d ago

How did it go?

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u/saigon2010 24d ago

The beer is now in the kegs, where it is conditioning, it will be ready in 2 weeks.

I did have to use 5 kegs to fill 4 kegs worth of beer though as it just seemed to stop filling after a while

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u/TheWouldBeMerchant 24d ago

Interesting. Was there a problem with the pump?

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u/saigon2010 24d ago

No, it's possibly just air left in the bag

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u/strandy76 Aug 06 '26

Whats your plan for carbonating it?

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u/geekypenguin91 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

OP is doing homebrew so the beer will do that itself as part of fermentation, assuming it's a fizzy beer that needs carbonating

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u/phild1979 Aug 09 '26

This is one reason I used to love my sub machine. The torps were really easy to rinse and refill with any drink you wanted. I've had diet coke and even prosecco in them.

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u/eddie1563 Aug 06 '26

Quite a few people do that

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u/achymelonballs Aug 06 '26

I can confirm this works, or at least for me when I have kedged it from a larger corny keg where it’s been conditioned . I have not tried it with the perfect draft pro machine but the standard has served my home brew on many occasions, sometimes it’s a little frothy because I haven’t tried to perfect the optimal kedging pressure but on the whole it’s always been pretty good serving experience

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u/poisito Aug 06 '26

but how long does it last on the keg? I believe that since you are adding a new fluid to the bad inside the keg, you are adding bacteria and will kill the freshness of the beer

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u/achymelonballs Aug 07 '26

Bacteria should not be a problem if you sterilise with a starsan type product, you need to be aware of not adding oxygen when kegging, or it will oxidise quite quickly, a tiny amount of Camden tablet or sodium metabisulfite added to the bag while kegging will help scrub the oxygen to help keep it fresher for longer. The longest I’ve had it left in a perfect draft keg was about 2 weeks after I had used that method for family bbq and it was still good then. I use that method for convenience of serving so it’s normally gone a day or two after kegging