home brew help?

Question

anyone know any good web sites to obtain 5l kegs for home brew beer?
do you brew the beer in the keg or pour it in when its brewed?
does it require alot of gas?
are they suitable for use with kits?
are they easy to use?
anyone use them?

Answer 1

Try www.midwestsupplies.com. They have all sorts of beer making supplies.

When brewing our beer, we boil it in a 5 gallon stainless steel pot and then pour it into a 5 gallon food grade plastic ale pail (fermenter) that we purchased from Midwest. We allow it to ferment in this plastic bucket with an airlock until it quits bubbling and then we bottle it. Now, if you want to place it in a keg, you can, but we have never done that and don't know how that really works. The people at Midwest should be able to help you out, they have been helpful to us.

Also, we always make our beer with the pre-packaged kits. We aren't good enough yet to put together out own ingredients and be successful at it. We use the Brewer's Best kits. Midwest has some great kits also.

Right now we have some Russian Imperial Stout fermenting. A great wintertime beer as it is really dark and malty.

Answer 2

http://www.maltose.com has them.

You don't brew in them and you don't pour the finished beer in them. You carefully siphon beer into them to avoid oxidizing it.

The beer would be keg conditioned (carbonated) in the kegs.

You can use them with kits.

They're easy to use.

I used them before switching to corney kegs.

Answer 3

Try byo.com everything u need and great advice