proper CO2 Cask Breathers - found
proper CO2 Cask Breathers - found
Wahey
Finally got hold of some proper Cask breathers to use with a CO2 system. They've got 3/8" JG connects and connect to a gas reg set @ 1-3psi. Highly recommended.
The Harmony Hut eBay shop has them - e-mail Paul because they're not on the Ebay listings.
For those not in the know a cask breather works with a real-ale style hand pump, it maintains a protective blanket of CO2 over your beer in the keg by letting in gas as you draw off the beer at the other end.
Frothy
Finally got hold of some proper Cask breathers to use with a CO2 system. They've got 3/8" JG connects and connect to a gas reg set @ 1-3psi. Highly recommended.
The Harmony Hut eBay shop has them - e-mail Paul because they're not on the Ebay listings.
For those not in the know a cask breather works with a real-ale style hand pump, it maintains a protective blanket of CO2 over your beer in the keg by letting in gas as you draw off the beer at the other end.
Frothy
Last edited by Frothy on Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I may be missing a trick here but isn't it a bit of an over kill connecting a beer engine to a cornie, a regulator, a Co2 bottle and than still having to buy a cask breather when you only need a pop bottle
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I just don't see the point.
A cask breather supplies CO2 at "demand pressure" into your keg displacing the volume of Beer pulled but the difference between doing this and supplying Co2 from a secondary regulator at .5 - .75 psi is surely minimal. At these levels the pressure of Co2 being supplied is well below that suspended in even the least carbonated beers so will not account for any secondary carbonation.
Either way CAMRA in their infinite wisdom will tell you it's no longer "Real" ale. (Like anyone cares)
Have to add that's a class schematic frothy, a work of art.
A cask breather supplies CO2 at "demand pressure" into your keg displacing the volume of Beer pulled but the difference between doing this and supplying Co2 from a secondary regulator at .5 - .75 psi is surely minimal. At these levels the pressure of Co2 being supplied is well below that suspended in even the least carbonated beers so will not account for any secondary carbonation.
Either way CAMRA in their infinite wisdom will tell you it's no longer "Real" ale. (Like anyone cares)
Have to add that's a class schematic frothy, a work of art.
Couple things to point out:
1) the breather "connects to a reg set @1-3 psi", if you are running "kegged" beer off your gas as well then you'll need more psi or split off a new regulator
2) as for "just letting in .5-.75 psi", very hard to regulate at that low of a level
1) the breather "connects to a reg set @1-3 psi", if you are running "kegged" beer off your gas as well then you'll need more psi or split off a new regulator
2) as for "just letting in .5-.75 psi", very hard to regulate at that low of a level
Johnny Clueless was there
With his simulated wood grain
With his simulated wood grain
The other alternative to a cask breather would be a check/demand valve to sit between the engine and the cornie to allow you run a higher CO2 pressure to the cornie. CFBS have details here :- http://www.cfbs-beer-pumps.co.uk/accessories.html
Chris...
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