Honey Lemon now on tap!!!

After much waiting and some expenses, the keg is finally set up and running!  I now have Honey Squeeze My Lemon on tap.  It was a bit of a process figuring everything out but now that it's up and running, nothing could be better. 

This is a 20lb CO2 tank and a 5 gal Cornelius keg (often called a Corny keg for short)  

For all of this to come together I ended up buying practically every piece from a different person.  I got the CO2 tank off of Craigslist and the keg from a homebrewer from another homebrew club.  The regulator came from a catalog from Blue Hills brewery and the fittings and tubing came from the Homebrew Emporium in Cambridge.

This is the regulator the gauge on the top tell you the pressure your putting into the keg and the gauge on the far left tells you the pressure inside the CO2 tank.  The red lever on the bottom that looks like it has a screw coming out of it, is actually a valve and that's not a screw its called a hose barb and you hook up your tubing to that and that's where the CO2 travels to your keg.

It's a little easier to see how it works now that its set up.  The tube running from the CO2 tank is running into the keg and the other tube is running from the keg to the tap.  That's not beer though, this was just sanitizer that I ran through the lines to make sure everything was clean before I added any beer.

Time to brew and have a brew

There it is, the Honey lemon from a tap! Mmmmm beer!  The green pellets that every one tells me looks like rabbit food is actually hops and that is lemon peel next to it.  This was taken during the brewing of the next batch of HSML.

I currently don't have a refrigerator yet so the keg is residing in the bulkhead area of the basement where the temp is a nice cool 55 degrees.  It would probably be colder if it wasn't so darn nice out side but you won't hear me complaining.