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One Tap Picnic Homebrew Kegerator Premium Regulator Pin Lock
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One Tap Picnic Homebrew Kegerator Premium Regulator Pin Lock
Price: $169.95
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With a kegerator kit from Learn To Brew you begin to savor the taste of cold, fresh draft beer at home and save money too! A 16oz mug of commercial draft beer costs about half of the same beer in a bottle and home brewed beer is even cheaper!  The kegerator conversion kits offered by Learn To Brew are ideal for any fun filled occasion.

Kegerator conversion kits are the easiest and most economical way to convert a new or spare refrigerator into an impressive home draft beer system. Our kegerator kits are designed to give you all the equipment required to easily dispense your beer.  All you need is a refrigerator or freezer.  You can easily convert a standing or chest freezer into a kegerator by using one of our temperature control units.
All of our kits are made using commercial grade components – the same you would expect at your local bar or restaurant and all of our kegerator kits come fully assembled.

Included with this kit:

  •     Double Gauge Commercial Premium CO2 Regulator
  •     4 Feet of CO2 Gas Line
  •     5 Feet of Beer Line
  •     1 Pin Lock Liquid Disconnect
  •     1 Pin Lock Gas Disconnect
  •     1 Black Picnic Faucet
  •     New Aluminum 5lb CO2 Tank (Ships empty by law**)
  •     Reconditioned Stainless Steel Pin Lock Keg*
  •     All Necessary Clamps (All kits come fully assembled)
  •     Included Free: An additional set of o-rings for each keg!
  •     Installation Instructions

Add an extra 5lb CO2 tank to ensure you never run out unexpectedly!

Add an extra 5 gallon stainless steel keg to ensure your beer is always ready to tap!

*All of our reconditioned kegs are washed and a pressured tested and o-rings and gaskets have been replaced.

**CO2 can be refilled by any local welding shop or fire extinguisher shop.


This is a used Coke-style pin lock keg. All kegs are pressure tested and all leaking O-Rings are replaced.  Since they are used and reconditioned, the outside of a keg may have minor dings and scratches. The keg requires pin lock attachments for both gas and beer sides. It is a good idea to have a spare set of replacement o-rings on hand and some keg o-ring lubricant. Lubricating the o-rings will help to make them last longer, but eventually they will become brittle and have to be replaced.

Why Choose Pin Lock?

There is a vast supply of reconditioned pin lock style stainless steel soda kegs that are available for home brewing.  Pin lock style kegs were originally manufactured to hold and dispense Coca Cola products prior to Coke products being dispensed by a bag in the box system.

Pin Lock style kegs are made of stainless steel.  This makes them perfect for dispensing beer and wine for the home brewer.  A Pin Lock keg is so named because of the tiny pins located on the product tank’s plugs.
 
These pins are used to lock and hold a quick disconnect in place and allow the home brewer to dispense beer from the keg or add carbon dioxide to the keg.  See Figure 2 for an example a pin lock liquid disconnect.
 
There are two types of pin lock disconnects, one for dispensing liquid and one for adding carbon dioxide (CO2) gas into the home brew keg.  Each pin lock plug fits only one of the quick disconnects.  That is to say that only the gas disconnect will fit on only the gas plug and only the liquid disconnect will fit on the liquid plug.  There are two ways to keep the quick connects connected to the right plug.  First, a gas disconnect is often colored grey either on top of the pin lock disconnect or on the base.  The liquid pin lock disconnect is often colored black on either the top or base.   The easiest way to remember which pin lock is for what use is as follows:  the word gas begins with the letter “g” and so does grey, the word beer begins with the letter “b” and so does black.
 
Another way to remember the difference between the two pin lock disconnects is that the gas plug has two pins and the liquid plug has three.  One major advantage of using pin lock kegs for your home brew versus ball lock is that the pins force the users to only connect the gas disconnect on the gas plug and the liquid disconnect on the liquid.  Ball lock plugs vary only slightly in size, do not have easily identifiable difference and are often incorrectly used with the wrong disconnect causing the user to crack or even break the device.  A small crack in a ball lock disconnect can cause CO2 to leak out of the keg slowly draining your CO2 tank.  Pin lock kegs prevent the user from forcing the wrong connection on the wrong plug and help prevent the user from damaging the disconnect or the pin lock plug.

Another advantage of pin lock kegs versus ball lock is that the lid to a pin lock keg does not have a relief valve where leaks commonly occur.  Ball lock kegs have a relief valve on the lid and this poses as potential point for CO2 gas to leak if the relief valve is not properly seated into position.   With a leak around the relief valve, the CO2 tank will empty and the beer will lose its carbonation.  Furthermore, a reconditioned ball lock keg will commonly cost around $30-35.  A new relief valve for a reconditioned keg will cost an additional $15.00 dollars to replace.  This is a total of approximately $50.00 spent on one ball lock keg.  The user may not have to immediately replace the relief valve on a ball lock keg, but eventually the valve will break and need to be replaced.  With a reconditioned pin lock keg, there is no additional expense because there is no relief valve.

If the user needs to release the pressure from a pin lock keg, the use simply needs to attach an open disconnect to the keg and allow the gas to escape.
Pin lock kegs cost less than ball lock, are easier to use, and easier to maintain leak free.