{"id":61,"date":"2013-09-25T16:28:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T21:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/?p=61"},"modified":"2014-10-02T23:06:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T04:06:55","slug":"fill-a-growler-from-your-keg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/25\/fill-a-growler-from-your-keg\/","title":{"rendered":"Fill a Growler From Your Keg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wanted to fill a growler from your keg without the beer tasting like cardboard the next day?\u00a0 Have you never, ever run across BierMuncher’s post<\/a> on the topic?\u00a0 Well today’s your lucky day!\u00a0 Hold on, because it’s really complicated…<\/p>\n

The Parts<\/h5>\n
1 x 5\/16\" siphon tube<\/a>\r\n1 x #6 Drilled Stopper<\/a>\r\n1 x Party tap kit<\/a> (unless you've already got one)<\/pre>\n
The Tools<\/h5>\n
Coping saw<\/a> (or other fine-toothed saw)\r\nFine grit sandpaper<\/a><\/pre>\n
The Procedure<\/h5>\n
\"Cut<\/a>
Cut thee carefully…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Cut the large black seal off the bottom of the tube.\u00a0 Then cut the hook off the top of the top, but make the cut diagonal.\u00a0 Use the sandpaper to smooth all the burrs off both ends, both inside and out.<\/p>\n
Then work the drilled stopped up the siphon tube, with the small\/bottom side of the stopper closer to the diagonally cut end of the tube.\u00a0 Check it against your growlers so that the tube touches the bottom of the growler and the stopper seals well in the growler’s mouth.\u00a0 For a normal-size growler, the bottom of the stopper will be a bit over 9 3\/4″ from the pointy end of the tube.\u00a0 You’re done!<\/p>\n
The Pour<\/h5>\n
\"filler-finished\"<\/a><\/p>\n
You’ll need a party tap (or “cobra” tap) since this doesn’t work with Perlicks and the like.\u00a0 Once you’ve hooked the party tap up to your keg, slip the flat end of the filler tube into the outlet of the party tap. It’ll be snug, but that’s good.\u00a0 Twist it in if you have to, but it shouldn’t take too much force.\u00a0 You also don’t want to shove it in too far, otherwise you’ll block the tap’s gasket mechanism. No worries, you’ll get it.<\/p>\n
Now purge your growler with CO2.\u00a0 It also helps if the growler is cold, but it doesn’t really matter.\u00a0 Insert the tube into the growler, making sure the stopper forms a good seal.\u00a0 Pull the tap trigger and watch the beer flow!\u00a0 It’ll foam a bit at first but you shouldn’t get too much.\u00a0 The flow will stop as the pressure builds up inside the growler, so now just squeeze the stopper a bit to let some CO2 out and keep filling until the foam hits the neck of the growler.<\/p>\n
Mmmm fresh beer.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have you ever wanted to fill a growler from your keg without the beer tasting like cardboard the next day?\u00a0 Have you never, ever run across BierMuncher’s post on the topic?\u00a0 Well today’s your lucky day!\u00a0 Hold on, because it’s really complicated… The Parts 1 x 5\/16″ siphon tube 1 x #6 Drilled Stopper 1 … Continue reading Fill a Growler From Your Keg<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}