For the past two years I'd been dragging a corny out of the fridge and sitting it under my beer engine to dispense. Finally got it plumbed in this week, after getting inspired from this video, and used your awesome idea for a drain tap between the demand valve and tap - works like a charm! Top marks buddy!

Great How-to

Brilliant. Cheers for this video, built a bar in the garden whilst on furlough last year and got my 50th birthday bash in the summer and you have sorted my next project

Hi. What a great idea. When I get time I need to try this. Every time I finish using my beer engine say on a Sunday night I unclip and unscrew the push connect from the corny and waste a pints worth of all whilst wandering back and forth from my shed where the fridge and keg is to the bar area next door to shed. It's quite a ball ache. Brilliant. Thanks you 👍🍻

I love the hand rubbing at 12.55……anticipating the goodness

Thanks for your quick response. I will give this a try. All the best to you.

Excellent video thanks, once I've built my bar I'm definitely going to have to dust off my old angram beer engine and do this

The drain tap is a great idea, ill be picking my beer engine up next month so will be setting mine up similar to yours after watching this, cheers

Beer conservation tip right there. I like it !

That looks fecking amazing

Brilliant. Now I need this.

Great video mate, and a cracking looking pint that

Great set up Richard, I'll need to get one, cheers

Great video buddy, love the look of the beer in the glass. Would love to get a shot of it in that condition. Great job

Brilliant mate great how to set the keg and hand pull up, good idea putting the tap on for cleaning. Cheers

Helped very much, thanks for that!

Just stumbled across this while researching corny kegs, very good and informative especially the use of demand valves as opposed to check valves. I have been dispensing through hand pulls/beer engines from 20l polypin bags (one use only), these are good especially for travels on boat campervan etc as I also have a cold box setup with a hand pump. However I have a bar setup at home and I'm looking for a cheaper option as in kegs. With my present setup the transfer from fermenter to bag is closed so I don't need to worry about exposure. As for carbonation I crash cool before the end of fermentation sg close to 1.010, this works well with my recipe beer as beer is clear and has a good head retention (torrified wheat). Using Co2 is a new thing for me and I want to be able to use it in my system as a protector and not for carbonation.

Fantastic video very informative will have to add this to my setup👍

Great vid mate. Got a few ideas to improve my cask setup now

That was an awesome video, thanks for posting. We have been wanting to put one of these on our homebrew draft system for a while now. I like the idea of rebuilding a used engine, but here in the USA we're probably not going to find any used. The drain valve at the bottom looks like a great idea. Thinking of maybe a solenoid valve for an automatic line purge at the end of the night. Again, thanks for posting.

Cheers for the vid, best on KZfaq (I should know, watched a few of these recently) Hopefully I'll be ready to join you all on the next zoom brew day, get that Dr Hexter's on the beer engine :)

Ingenious!

Awesome 🍻

jut got one myself and so far the beers definitely (to me) taste so much better than from the Kegerator. :)

Awesome 😎 cheers

Thanks for the video. Ideal for the pub setting but for the homebrewer it's hard to beat c02 fed taps

Just following up the pint 365 does have a built in check valve :/back flow device

Excellent video Richard, and your one on reconditioning the beer engines. Where did you get the Blackened Sun pint glass from? Gary doesn't even use those in the taproom!

Brilliant! You can scarcely find a beer engine in the US. I'd love to have one to explore this treat...Looks like you have this all worked out, without having to deal with firkins, splines, shives and the short lifespan of cask ales, but you have the look, taste and convenience...Well Done!

Love your video.Because of your video I purchased a hand pump and demand valve from the UK. I live in Ontario Canada.I was wondering if this hand pump can be used with home brew that is not cask ale? I am brewing home brew and fermenting in a corny keg. I would like to pour the beer through a hand pump and demand valve from the corny keg. If this can not be done can I transfer the beer from the corny keg into the beer in the box bags supplied by jig saw company from the UK. I live in Canada .I would use low psi around 2 to 3 psi. I am new to this so any info will help. Thanks for your time.

Southern pint = Flat I'm a Scotsman living in Yorkshire so I know what a decent pint should look like!!!

digging the the intro music. Who was it? Great vid too!

I like the tap bit for cleaning, but Im not getting why id doesn't pull the beer through as well, if the tap was closed then it would pull beer through yeah ??. When you connect the beer line in to the demand valve, i'm guessing it just pushes in and seals ?? Andy.

Could you point me in the direction of the valve you have for the drain tap? Thanks

Awesome stuff! I've debated getting one solely for stouts to try and get a creamier feel. Out of interest, do you still use it at all two years on?

Great video! Question: do you put some priming sugar into the keg upon transfer, or do you rely solely on a low PSI setting to carbonate the beer?

Nice northern head there

Great video, I'm in the process of rigging up the same set up. How long do you think you can leave beer in the 3/8 pipe from Corny to check valve? I get the point of cleaning out the engine and 1/2 tube ... wasn't sure how regularly I should clean through the full length ... had assumed I'd need to do that fairly often. I won't be emptying the corny's that quickly (i.e. not in a single BBQ sessions for example).

Floating dip tube I'm guessing is pretty much the same as the Fermzilla? I've seen people cut down the existing stainless tube but wondered if it'd be worth getting a couple of spare gas in tubes (1" long) and attaching the non floating end of the floating dip tube to that?

1/4 cup for 5 gallons is perfect. Vent a day before, hook up a cask breather and boom!

Just watched a recent video by the apartment brewer where you were mentioned. He used a cask breather after the regulator. Looked them up and they cost about £50. Do you know what the benefit of using one over hooking up the co2 directly to the regulator? I’ve set up as above and works very well 👍🍻

Great info. Just set my engine up with the demand valve and gave it a good clean based on your last video. Different brand of engine England Worthside Limited so a few puzzles but all solved. Why not just disconnect the beer out line at the end of the session from the keg. Vent the line to air and pull thru the last beer. Then put that ball lock connector opened into the starsan and pull it through all the pipe and the demand valve?. Otherwise you will have beer sitting out of the "cellar" in the line and demand valve. I have got that exact creamer sparkler with my engine do you know it's brand or any other info. Your Harveys shouldn't have a sparkler on it anyway you can't get much more south than Lewes, what yeast did you use? Or i will wait for the video.

Also, do you think its possible to connect direct to a home brew barrel tap and draw the home brew through the beer engine ??. Cheers. Andy

How do you cool the beer line and the cylinder?

Cheers from Vermont USA Nice video, I just purchased a pint 365 engine , do you know if it has a built in check valve ? I will send them email to confirm, What about beer left in line from keg to check valve? Thanks

How long does Ur beer last or how long do u keep it on this set up as I heard mixed times

How do you usually clean the beer engine?

great video thanks. you have the keg in the fridge and you connected up to the pump......i noticed you have a pipe going into the "IN" valve? did you keep the Co2 on whist pouring?

Hi mate I love your videos but I’m confused as to if I need a demand valve as I’ve seen other peoples videos do not use one Thanks in advance