Beer Engine

[davidgzach]

I’m thinking about buying a beer engine and making some cask conditioned ales.  Anyone have one and what do you think?  I’m afraid I’m going to brew 2-3 cask ales and get bored with it…

Dave

[dkfick]

I have a pin sized cask (stainless) and I don’t really use it that often.  I pretty much only use it at club events and parties.  Hard to drink 5 gallons of beer within 2-3 days without a lot of help :D.  I didn’t end up buying a beer engine… Though my homebrew club bought 2 casks and a beer engine (Which I store at my place…) The beer engine is definitely nice to have with the cask.  If I had it to do over again I wouldn’t have bought my pin because I was able to get the club to buy some… and I pretty much only use my pin for club events anyways…

[majorvices]

We have one at brewery and even down there we don’t use it very often.

I have a stout faucet and nitro tank at home and I love that. I put my IPA exclusively on nitrogen for home and it’s awesome. For home use I’d recommend that over a beer engine.

[davidgzach]

@majorvices

We have one at brewery and even down there we don’t use it very often.

I have a stout faucet and nitro tank at home and I love that. I put my IPA exclusively on nitrogen for home and it’s awesome. For home use I’d recommend that over a beer engine.

Good stuff Keith, thanks!

[davidgzach]

@dkfick

I have a pin sized cask (stainless) and I don’t really use it that often.  I pretty much only use it at club events and parties.  Hard to drink 5 gallons of beer within 2-3 days without a lot of help :D.  I didn’t end up buying a beer engine… Though my homebrew club bought 2 casks and a beer engine (Which I store at my place…) The beer engine is definitely nice to have with the cask.  If I had it to do over again I wouldn’t have bought my pin because I was able to get the club to buy some… and I pretty much only use my pin for club events anyways…

I think I may pass…

[phillamb168]

I’ve got one and use it fairly often. The trick is to get a CO2 aspirator and hook that up to the gas post on your corney. That way you don’t have to drink everything in a day. That being said the ideal would be a stout tap on nitro, but those are very expensive out here, and very hard to source the gas mix if you’re not a professional.

Another consideration is where to put it - these are typically mounted onto a ledge of some sort and need enough room around them to pull all the way through.

[hopfenundmalz]

You can make a poor man’s cask breather out of a low pressure propane regulator for about $30 or less. They is how we serve the beer with a hand pump, and then return it to a cold room/fridge when done for the night, as we don’t go through that much in a night.

[dkfick]

@phillamb168

I’ve got one and use it fairly often. The trick is to get a CO2 aspirator and hook that up to the gas post on your corney. That way you don’t have to drink everything in a day. That being said the ideal would be a stout tap on nitro, but those are very expensive out here, and very hard to source the gas mix if you’re not a professional.

Another consideration is where to put it - these are typically mounted onto a ledge of some sort and need enough room around them to pull all the way through.

It’s the opposite in the states… The Beer Engine itself is a super expensive purchase… It alone would be more than the stout faucet, beer gas tank, and beer gas fill.  I do +1 on the aspirator… I have one of those… but you still have to drink the cask beer within a few days… or it goes flat… But then you can transfer it to a keg and recarb…