Guiness keg only 12 gallons?

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Guiness keg only 12 gallons?

Postby vanwolfhausen » Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:23 pm

I bought a Guiness keg that is same width as regular keg but, a few inches shorter than regular keg. I tested it(Slightly half ass way) but, only seemed to have like 13gallon capacity. Anyone ever heard of this? It is painted w/ the Guiness stensil on outside and very nice looking.

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Postby Stihler » Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:00 am

Hmmm...I've never heard of that.

However, I did some looking online and found a reference to an import keg having a capacity of 13.2 U.S. gallons which seems to agree quite well with your estimate.

Here is where I got that information: http://www.answers.com/topic/keg

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Postby vanwolfhausen » Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:41 pm

Yep, I think thats exactly what it is.haha Oh well I was gonna make it my boil keg but, now thinking I should just make it my HLT.
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Postby jeepguy » Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:53 pm

Use it as a HLT for sure. You want the biggest kettle you can have.
I usually do at least 12 gallons in mine. I did a 14 gallon batch but it was a pain because i had to adjust the burner all the time to avoid boilovers.
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Postby vanwolfhausen » Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:31 pm

Good point, that is exactly what I am going to do.
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