Brew system pics

[spott77]

Where do you guys get the keggles if you have no welding skilz? I might need to get one. As much as I love my 32 qt SS kettle, I think I need more wort space.

Weldless fittings. They work on my system.

Dave

[Wild Bill]

luckily I have a neighbor that works at a manufacturing facility where among other things they make filters for the wine industry. Lots of good SS welders there.

[polski]

great info guys. thanks for the advice.

any tips on tracking down a keg to convert?

[meisterofpuppets]

great info guys. thanks for the advice.

any tips on tracking down a keg to convert?

I'm trying to get in touch with my local micro owner to see if I can take an empty or slightly damaged keg off his hands.

[Monster Mash]

great info guys. thanks for the advice.

any tips on tracking down a keg to convert?

Find some beer distributers and ask them if they have any old kegs. You can check scrap yards also.

[macgruffus]

Find some beer distributers and ask them if they have any old kegs. You can check scrap yards also.

meister has it right ... cooperage belongs to the breweries and not the distributor. The legal way to get a keg for conversion is to get one from a brewery or to buy one from SABCO. Scrap yards might have some but they really shouldn't be buying them either. Don't become part of the problem ...

[Monster Mash]

A distributer will not sell you a keg that a brewery wants back. If they have kegs from a defunct brewery or kegs that a brewery just does not want back they will sell them to you.

If a scrap yard has kegs they are going to scrap them and destroy them. If you buy them you are saving them. No matter if you buy them from a scrap yard or not people will continue to take them to the scrap yard illegally.

How is that contributing to the problem?

[Mylo]

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Kegs belong to the brewery. The scrap yard is guilty by "buying them" off of a person who drops them off there. Then they are guilty again when they sell them to you. Finally, you are guilty for buying stolen property.

Many scrap yards are slowly becoming educated to these facts, and will not accept them in the first place.


Mylo