Corny Use

[soakins]

Ladies and Gentlemen

Do those of you who use corny kegs us them as kegs? I.e. pumping your beer out with CO2. Or do you use them as casks, and pull the beer out with a beer engine, with CO2 just to 'seal' the top of the beer from the air?

How is using cornies different/better/worse than using plastic pressure barrels?

thanks

[oblivious]

You can naturally carbonate, like a cask or force carbonate with a CO2 cylinder

I naturally carbonate, but over time I top up the co2 to store/serve through an S-30 valve on the corny lid, these can be bought from hop and grape.

[steve_flack]

I force carbonate and dispense with CO2 from a 14lb pub cylinder and regulator.

[RabMaxwell]

I force carbonate dispense with demand valve serve through beer engines.But when i have half a keg left & know i can use it up in 2 days i switch to air to push the rest out as i am a tight twat jock.

[Aleman]

Force carbonate, and dispense with CO2, or use a cask aspirator and beer engine.

I've tried carbonating naturally in the keg but never seemed to get polished beer out, there was always a yeast haze, often this affected the taste of the beer - detrimentally

YMMV as always

[mysterio]

Force carbonate & dispense with CO2 here. Or when I'm using the beer engine I just do my best to purge with CO2 after use.

[Madbrewer]

I don't aim to 'force' the carbonation but use co2 to stop the beer staling and to pressure it enough for dispense. Therefore the Keg is only used for dispense (normally having fallen bright in the plastic barrel) although for when I am camping or going to finish the brew inside of a couple of days, I would like an 'air pump' to produce the pressure required instead of wasting gas - as seen in a Papazian Book forget which). Still looking out for a method of doing that though ....

[RabMaxwell]

I find natural carbonation is ok when you cut a bit of your cornie dip tube in conjunction with using C02 pressure to push the beer to your tap. But beer engines are a different story when using natural carbonation with a fair bit of sediment on the bottom. As they are sucking the beer up you loose a lot of beer before it clears even with a bit cut of your dip tube. You could fit a ubend to the dip tube so that it's drawing the beer down & prevent drawing in the sediment