REPLACING CO2 GAS LINES - Kegerator

PATREON - / thehomebrewnetwork
Manifold - bit.ly/4waymanifold
Regulator Guard - bit.ly/RegulatorGuard
Tube Cutter - bit.ly/TubeCutter
Duotight - bit.ly/duotight
EVAbarrier - bit.ly/evabarrierline

[@Schikitar]

Good stuff Gash, I've got the same manifold setup in my fridge. My next cheap project will be to upgrade each line with a blowtie valve on each output so I can independently control the pressure to each keg! ;)

[@BuffaloBeerReviews]

that turn may have been 192.5 degrees. Cheers from Buffalo, NY, USA! Love your videos immensely..

[@StassBrewing]

Cheers Gash - got the same fittings. Am getting ready to do a similar thing in my kegerater. Cheers

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Good stuff Stass, get on it! :)

[@kacerhomebeerbrewing]

Same here Gash.. kicked the all hosing system straight to rubbish bin, removed the Font too and made timber one just behind the bar with that Guard screwed on wall. I am using similar manifold for years, since I bought Kegerator ages ago and no drama at all. Cheers for sharing mate!

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Sounds great Kacer HBB I'd love to build something great but still renting here and it makes it hard. Thanks for watching mate, cheers!

[@tomwilliams364]

Nice one Gash, by the way the Jedi juice turned out fantastic, it'll be lucky to see out this weekend, thanks lad

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Thats awesome mate, cheers!

[@imperia1999]

Nice bud I've the same manifold but with 6 connection on it,good tip about finger tight and 180° later which I never did. I did find the last time I lost gas was the fittings, the JG fittings had crumbled not all just the off one. Cheers

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

These ones are a little bit better than JG, as in the sealing around a line, but yeah I could see the odd one failing though, I'll keep an eye on them . Cheers and thanks mate

[@4rdzlla]

Do you need to clean the gas lines and manifold/fittings when building this ?

[@beefa5649]

Good one mate, I need to do this, soon, cheers

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Get on it Barry, leave the ladies alone for 5mins.

[@ninelivesbrewing]

Just bought my first batch of duotight fittings. My old setup with vinyl hosing has leaked twice in the last 2 months emptying brand new CO2 tanks twice in the process (once the day I had to bottle up for a competition!). Very much looking forward to putting them all back together with the new fittings and tidying up the whole system this weekend. Any watchouts after you've been using these for a few years now?

[@cheekysaver]

No way! I thought it would be way more complicated and cost way more money! The think I love about your channel is Aussie $ translates well to Canadian. I have to source differently but in my head this was what I thought the hardest part was. It is not something I can do today... but maybe in the future I can have a keg or 2. I am thinking in a freezer with a temp controller but I don't even know if it would work. I have a lot of education to get in this category. I know for a experienced guy this was easy... but for newbs it is pretty amazing.

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Yep they are great, cheers and thanks for watching!

[@finnroohomebrewing1846]

I need to tidy up my line's a bit to run 2 kegs. Cheers

[@tumaswilson8]

Great video mate love your work! How did you end up attaching it, I like the Velcro idea, I put three screws and attached it to the door but the screws aren't biting properly so I'm off to Bunnings to get some Velcro as a secondary👍👍 thanks again for the tips!

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

I havent attached to door yet, I keep forgetting to order an elbow piece, I m sure the velcro will hold though, I bought the good wall hanging stuff, not clothes making stuff, although that could probably work too

[@kingzor100]

gonna have to do this cause im not sure if the co2 was empty or i had a leak

[@sandbarhopper57]

Loved the video. When you switched lines to EVABarrier, what size I.D. are you using? There's several different sizes and I'm trying to decide which.

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

I use 4mm ID at the moment. Around 2.5m

[@StinkyWizzleTits]

Ive had all sorts of troubles with push in fitting over the years. I might have to try the duo tight ones.

[@frallorfrallor3410]

i had duotight breaking and john guest but no dimfit broken yet

[@patrickglaser1560]

​@@frallorfrallor3410ya, I want to make a blowtie manifold but I always have leaky duotight fittings

[@kennethbuck5745]

I switched completely over to duotite for both my gas and my liquid. I had to switch back for gas. It just doesn't hold a tight fit and leaks when the lines get moved around.

[@OldNorsebrewery]

Nice regulator guard

[@petercatto9795]

Hello my friend,, I have the same connector but a triple and all I did was silicon it to the wall?? then took the sticky tape off and a silicone held it there for at least a year now?? it's like a fish tank and will never come off

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Cheers Peter, thanks mate!

[@totallyrandomlocksandpicks1213]

Hey mate great info, gotta respect an man who bleeds for his art! Sitting here having a NEIPA BIAG (20ltr) tun styled one one of your previous videos. Cooper extract can 4 kg Joe White traditional ale malt 1kg Joe White light Crystal 250grams quick oats and 500 rice husks, 3x30oz cascade hops, tastes good my mates recon, does the job, thanks for the videos Keep up the good work!

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Yeah that regulator guard was plain cut stainless bloody sharp lol lost skin hahaha. That's awesome about your beer mate, makes me happy . Cheers!

[@totallyrandomlocksandpicks1213]

@@HomeBrewNetwork Yeah It's a good recipe, thanks for sharing! couldn't help from commenting as I took a scoop of flesh outta a finger the other day with a barbed fitting using eva barrier 5mm ID 8mm OD found the old harder line works better with barbs? eva's seems too soft? fine for duotight though I recon, Cheers :)

[@2F51RL]

​@@totallyrandomlocksandpicks1213 ; Thanks for mentioning you found old harder line better for barbs. I don't trust ANY push-ins. I have no end of trouble with RO water leaks thru them, so can't see gas being any more reliable. KeeGland ;) does admit (in a low whisper) that ''micro'' leaks are possible with their u-beaut Duotight too, e.g. when line is strained or at an angle. I notice Gash didn't bend the tube in them like he did on the JG ones. Sex sells tho, and nothing say sexy like pushing in your pipe. Hahaha. I'm glad there were lots of out-of-stocks (OOS) in the gas dept during the lead-up to Fermzilla's release. It gave me time to read some things I might've otherwise missed, like force carbonation with commercial CO2 (99.5% pure), being enough on its own to oxidise a carefully nurtured Low Oxygen Brewing beer (per Bryan Rabe) to the degree of throwing away the clean malt flavors at the very end, to say nothing of what it does to hops aroma and storage life. The numbers are well researched and published in brewery papers. Now I'm going to skip right to natural carbonation via spunging and collecting the excess spunge gas (purest CO2) to push the beer around (just like the big boys do). With no push-in fittings.

[@totallyrandomlocksandpicks1213]

@@2F51RL I gotta say most interesting comment reply I read all week, I've been doing the same sort of research my self, bottled on and off for 15 years or more finally set up a a serving, fridge fementer fridge w/stc1000 &heater belt, co2, found the local HB supplies 5x the price of either KK or KK how ever started on barbs and hard line (which I believe doesn't work so well with duotight fittings) Use duotight as I have 12M of it and a few duotight fittings. Actually made my own diy spuding valve same thing as Kegland (KeeGland lmfao ;) gear minus the blowtie simply a ball valve on the end, same principle. Going to have a crack at knocking the sanitiser out of a 19ltr KegKing ball lock with a 50ltr SS keg to be used as a fementer then anaerobic transfer to the secondary/serving keg plan to do 40-45 liter batches (prob 40) depending/allowing for sufficient head space in the fementer. Lucky to have scored 3 x 50lts and A-type micromatic couplers to suit so I've reconfigured them to use ball lock fittings just going to use the gas in as a blow off to a bottle and a one way check valve in the case any thing made it's way towards the pressure gauge. Then once things are working capture that C02 and flush the 19's Eventually I'd like to go back to bottling whilst still kegging, however using a counter pressure filler. Slowing but surely... Happy brewing mate, Cheers!

[@CreweWolfCraft]

Great How too mate Cheers

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Thanks very muich for watching mate, love your work :) Cheers!

[@clintAdventures]

How did you get the west melbourne water profile? i live in melb south east suburbs and wanting to get mine. cheers.

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

You need to find which one is yours www.melbournewater.com.au/water/health-and-monitoring/drinking-water-quality umm trying to find another more detailed report I had..

[@mra9xss]

Cheers 🍻 mate!

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Cheers Lemo! The Lemorator!

[@mra9xss]

The Home Brew Network 😂😂😂🍻🍻🍻

[@KenLovesCraftBeer]

Hey Gash where do you get those 3d printed hop tap handles from?

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

I mate did that for me! I have a 3d printer on my list, not sure when I'll get to it though! I could ask him if you want. Cheers!

[@jcinsaniac]

I note that you did not use any tape - duotight fittings don't require it?

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

no they shouldnt need it, though if worse comes to worse you could use a little, they dont seal at the thread. cheers!

[@UnitBeerMonsta]

But where did you place it and what with?

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Its on the back of my fridge, secured with velcro strips the strong ones that hold up pictures on walls, umm its on the setup video for my series X Cheers! Let me know if you need the link

[@oscadelta]

Hey Gash, did you end up drilling a hole .. is there a video for it?

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

I didnt drill any holes, but trying to remember what youre talking about.. a hole for what?

[@oscadelta]

@@HomeBrewNetwork Sorry mate, only watched this one today. You added a manifold to your kegerator and wanted to mount it outside. You thought you might have to drill the hole bigger to put the 4 gas lines through.

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

@@oscadelta nope I got 4 through

[@frallorfrallor3410]

pushfit is great until they break into 1000 pices, im going all barb fittings or atleast minimizing pushfits

[@ejmillion]

Does gas line length matter at all?

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Not in the lengths used in home brewing, I guess if you had them extremely long they might drop pressure. Cheers!

[@ejmillion]

@@HomeBrewNetwork I was more thinking the other way, was wondering if 50cm from the gas line splitter.

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

@@ejmillion Be fine mate! Cheers!

[@davidbeiler6364]

no leaks?

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Nope still using

[@davidbeiler6364]

recipe for amber?

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Umm yeah its on video somewhere, hang on

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

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[@mattmholliday]

If your not pushing it in an inch your not pushing it in enough. Words to live by

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Get it in there! :D

[@mattsawdy6579]

was thinking the same thing... lol