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Hands on Review: Intertap Forward Sealing Faucets and Accessories

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Intertap Faucets are a forward sealing faucet.  The forward sealing design helps prevent sticking.  Intertap Faucets have a unique modular, threaded spout design which can fit a variety of attachments including a growler filler, stout spout and ball lock post.  Additional, related options are available including shanks and a self closing faucet spring.

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Wrap Around Stainless Steel Drip Tray – $17.99 + free prime ship

Kegerator Beer Drip Tray Stainless Steel and Plastic Tray with Non Slip Rubber Grip, Large Drip Tray for Beverage Dispenser (TYPE 1)

Kegerator Beer Drip Tray Stainless Steel and Plastic Tray with Non Slip Rubber Grip, Large Drip Tray for Beverage Dispenser

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  • Pls noted the cutout size is 3.75″ Confirm whether it is suitable for your tower.DIMENSIONS: 12.2″ L x 8″ W x 3/4″ H and 3.75″ diameter cutout
  • CUTOUT FOR BEER TOWER: Ensures your beer drip tray is positioned perfectly for catching spills from single, double, and triple tap beer towers.
  • KEEP YOUR KEGORATOR AND COUNTERTOPS CLEAN: Whether you are a bar owner, a coffee shop barista, or a homebrewer, this stainless drip tray will keep your counters clean by catching drips and spills when pouring coffee, beer, wine, or other beverages; The stainless steel cover easily removes so you can dump out any liquid caught inside of the tray; This bar tray is dishwasher safe
  • Removable cover for easy cleaning. No Drain Hole Below.
  • SLEEK STAINLESS STEEL PLATE: Looks great and will not tarnish, rust, or corrode and lifts easily off the plastic base making cleanup a cinch.

 

5/8/21 5 PM Central: This is selling for just $17.99. Shipping is also free to many US addresses with Prime Membership [Try Prime for Free] or a qualifying order.  Prices and availability can change quickly.  Check product page for current info – More About Prices

Kegerator Beer Drip Tray Stainless Steel and Plastic Tray with Non Slip Rubber Grip, Large Drip Tray for Beverage Dispenser (TYPE 1) – note that multiple variations of this product may be available, as such a different version may appear at this link


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Mark II Keg and Carboy Washer – $74 + Free Shipping & Hands on Review & Mods

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Mark’s Keg and Carboy Washer via Adventures in Homebrewing

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Make Better Beer!

Hand crafting beer is a fun and rewarding hobby. The first rule of making better beer is to keep everything that touches the beer clean and sanitized. The Mark II Keg Washer helps to accomplish this task in an easy, efficient, and effective manner.

Save Time, Labor, Space and have fun!

The most labor-intensive and time-consuming task in brewing is cleanup. The Mark II Keg Washer allows you have all your containers and hoses clean by the time your brewing task is done.

Many home brewers set aside containers ?to be cleaned later.? This discourages getting started on the next batch.

The Mark II Keg Washer should be the first piece of equipment you set up and the last thing you put away on brew day or when you transfer your beer from one container to then next.

When transferring beer from one container to the next, we first use the Mark II Keg Washer to sanitize the container that the beer will be transferred to. Then we clean the container that the beer was transferred from.

 

This is awesome!  I have this and like it very much.  It’s one of my favorite pieces of brewing gear.  It’s saved me a lot of time and hassle.  Check out my Hands on Review – beyond the in depth review that includes some mods and hacks.

  • This is on sale for $79.  That in and of itself is one of the best prices I’ve seen going back to 2013.
  • $5 Off Coupon: Adventures in Homebrewing is taking $5 off most orders of $55 or more. Use coupon code CINCO to get the deal.
  • Stacks With Free Shipping!  Adventures in Homebrewing is offering free shipping on most orders of $55 or more with a few exclusions.

Mark’s Keg and Carboy Washer – remember promo code CINCO

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Intertap Forward Sealing Faucets – from $16.14! + Hands on Review & Tapcooler Review

  • Intertaps are awesome!  Check out my Hands on Review of these great faucets.
  • Keg Connection is discounting most things site wide.
  • This sale means Intertap prices start at just $16.14.
  • These also fall under Keg Connection’s Flat Rate Shipping Promotion.  Your entire order ships for one flat rate, no matter how much you order, to addresses in the contiguous US.

Intertap at Keg Connection

Looking for an easy way to bottle from your Intertap faucet?  The Tapcooler allows you to easily counter pressure fill bottles from Intertap Faucets without a lot of tubing and cleanup.  See: Tapcooler Counter Pressure Filler via Great Fermentations and Hands on Review

Flat Rate Shipping

  • Shipping is a flat $9.95 no matter how much you buy site-wide to addresses in the contiguous US.
  • Maximize Flat Rate Shipping: Since shipping is flat rate, grab a keg, some ingredients, a recipe kit or something else it will all ship for that same flat rate.

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Prices, shipping and availability can change quickly. Please note that product prices and availability are subject to change. Prices and availability were accurate at the time this post was published; however, they may differ from those you see when you visit the product page. Check the product page for current price, description and availability.

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Stout Beer Faucets – $49.99, Half Off + $5 Off Coupon

Stout Faucet

Stout Faucet via Adventures in Homebrewing

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Traditional English pub stout faucets for use with lower carbonated ales and stouts. Detachable spout with restrictor disc and flow straightened. This is the faucet to use with a Nitrogen/co2 gas mixture in a Guinness style set up. Features a pull forward to pour and push back for creamer design. Chrome plated body with a stainless spout and stainless restrictor plate.
Happy Pouring!

 

As of this posting, this is on sale for just $49.99.  That’s a whopping 50% off.

  • This is on sale for $79.  That in and of itself is one of the best prices I’ve seen going back to 2013.
  • $5 Off Coupon: Adventures in Homebrewing is taking $5 off most orders of $55 or more. Use coupon code CINCO to get the deal.
  • Stacks With Free Shipping!  Adventures in Homebrewing is offering free shipping on most orders of $55 or more with a few exclusions.

Stout Faucet at Adventures in Homebrewing – remember promo code CINCO with a qualifying $55 order

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MoreBeer Draft Line Cleaning Kit – on sale for $39.95 + free ship eligible + Building a Recirculating Draft Line Cleaner

Beer Line Cleaning Kit D1600

Beer Line Cleaning Kit from MoreBeer

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Life is too short to drink bad beer! Beer flavor gets funky when your tap, line and faucet are filled with beer stone–a left over gift from pints long since poured. You do NOT want to share that with your friends!

Ideally you want to clean your lines after every keg, but at the very least cleaning them a few times a year (we like quarterly) will keep your brew pouring fresh and your friends asking for more! Our Draft Cleaning Kit comes with a 1 qt hand pump that pushes Beer Line Cleaner (4 oz size included) through your whole draft system. The faucet gets removed and cleaned with the included faucet wrench and brush. Perfect for cleaning home kegerators as well.

 

  • As of this posting, this is is on sale for $39.95.
  • Get Free Shipping: Shipping is also free to most US addresses with a qualifying $59 order.
  • Easy Filler Item….  If you’re looking for a filler item to help you qualify for free shipping, consider grabbing some PBW

Beer Line Cleaning Kit D1600

Build a Recirculating Draft Line Cleaning Pump

Convert Your Mark II Keg & Carboy Washer to a Recirculating Draft Line Cleaning Pump!

Prices and availability were accurate at the time this this post was published; however, they may differ from those you see when you visit the product page.  Check the product page for current price, description and availability.

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Taking Orders Again… O-Rings in Food Safe Silicone

Universal Poppet Replacement O-Rings - Food Safe Silicone

Valuebrew offers a lineup of food grade keg replacement o-rings in bulk quantities.  Most offerings are silicone with one Buna-N option.  Everything they carry is food grade, more info below.  They have some unique offerings like bulk pin lock size post o-rings, replacement universal poppet o-rings, bulk internal QD o-rings and color coded Blue and Green post o-rings

Some of these offerings are featured in our Keg Rebuild How-To

  • Valuebrew has struggled with availability on some of their options.
  • For the last day or two they haven’t been accepting new orders. Talking with them they periodically do this to be able to keep up with fulfilling orders.
  • They must be caught back up because they’re accepting orders again.
  • If you were one that tried to place and order and couldn’t, here you go…

Complete Lineup; Food Safe Keg O-Rings

Universal Poppet Tips & Tricks…

One of my tips is to immediately replace OEM o-rings…

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For whatever reason, it’s difficult to find food safe keg o-rings.  Maybe some of the o-rings that are available are food safe, but very few are actually labeled as such.

The fact is we’re putting beer (food) in our kegs and we should be using food safe materials whenever we can.  More Info: Food Safe Replacement Keg O-Rings

Featured in Our Keg Rebuild Post!

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Stainless Steel Carbonation Cap for PET Bottles – $8.39 + free prime ship

Yosoo Stainless Steel Carbonation Cap Home Brew Beer Fast Soda Made Counter Pressure Bottle Filling Fit Most Soft Drink PET Bottles

Yosoo Stainless Steel Carbonation Cap Home Brew Beer Fast Soda Made Counter Pressure Bottle Filling Fit Most Soft Drink PET Bottles

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  • With the cap you can simply fill an old PET bottle with cold liquid and carbonate by connecting to gas side ball lock disconnect.You can make your own soda, carbonate beer, or even make your own soft drinks like juice
  • It is designed to fit onto most soft drink PET bottles, inject CO2 into the bottle, creating carbonation
  • The carbonation cap is highly effective method to add and maintain carbonation in beverages for extended periods of time
  • Please Note:For best results, make sure that your beverage is very cold so that the CO2 can be absorbed much faster

 

Potential Uses:

 

  • PET Bottles as Growlers: These are generally intended to convert 1L and 2L bottles to growlers.  Fill up a 1L or 2L PET bottle with your favorite homebrew.  Put one of these on (purge the headspace by squeezing if you want to) and then pressurize for transport.  This should help to reduce oxygen pickup and maintain carbonation levels.
  • Fine tune or rapidly carbonate beer: You can also use this cap to rapidly carbonate beer.  Same process as for transport, just set your regulator to the proper pressure and shake or agitate the PET bottle to help introduce CO2.  Or hook it up to CO2 and let it sit in you kegerator.

5/7/21 11 AM Central: This is selling for just $8.39. Shipping is also free to many US addresses with Prime Membership [Try Prime for Free] or a qualifying order. Prices and availability can change quickly.  Check product page for current info – More About Prices

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boxtech Submersible Water Pump – 265 GPH – $13.99 + Draft Line Cleaning Build

boxtech Submersible Water Pump, Aquarium Water Pump, Fountain Pump, 25W/ 35W/ 45W/60W Ultra Quiet Water Pump for Fish Tank, Aquarium, Pond, Fountain, Hydroponics and Statuary

boxtech Submersible Water Pump

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  • A multi-functional Submersible pump=Add water+Change water+Circulating water+Sucking fish manure. Equipped with 2 water outlets and 5.6 Ft power cord, can be applied in aquarium, fountains, hydroponic and pond
  • Water pump with bottom suction trainer,100% submersible.The pump motor is sealed with high-quality resin and has better insulation performance, which can effectively prevent Water leakage and Electric leakage
  • Max Flow Rate: 265 GPH per hour, Max Lift height: up to 5.6 Feet. 25W high efficiency motor for energy saving, and low water level design
  • This submersible water pump is multi-purpose water pump with low power consumption, low noise, balanced speed, reliable operation, long service life, easy to maintain
  • Backed by 12 month warranty and professional after-sale service within 24hrs

 

I use a similar pump (different manufacturer, features and specifications) for a recirculating draft line cleaning setup.  Note that fittings sizes are different on this pump vs the one I use in that build.  Adjust accordingly  Another possible homebrewing application would be to set this up for use a part of a recirculating wort chiller setup.

5/7/21 8 AM Central: This is selling for just $13.99. Shipping is also free to many US addresses with Prime Membership [Try Prime for Free] or a qualifying order. Prices and availability can change quickly.  Check product page for current info – More About Prices

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Make sure the components you use are compatible and rated for your intended application.  Contact manufacturer with questions about suitability or a specific application.  Always read and follow manufacturer directions.

Ball Lock Kegs – $45 + $5 Off Coupon AND Free Ship Eligible

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Used 5 Gallon Cornelius Style Ball Lock Kegs via Adventures in Homebrewing

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Pressure tested 5 gallon, stainless steel, cornelius style tank. These tanks are guaranteed to hold pressure. 25″ tall and 8.5″ diameter. Tanks will show normal wear and tear. May have stickers on kegs. May also have syrup residue in tanks as we only dump them.

Kegs include the o-rings and poppits that were installed when we received the tanks. We will often change an o-ring or poppit to get the tank to hold pressure. If you would like to have new o-rings or poppits, the options below allow you to add these. We do not change them but simply add them to the order.

If you are just getting into kegging you will need a kegging setup to go with these kegs. We sell picnic tap systems, tower systems, and kegerator systems.

We know some homebrewers are more picky than others, so please keep in mind that these are USED kegs. Some of these kegs are probably 30 years old. Do not expect new kegs. If you are looking for new kegs, please check out our new kegs. We try and have quality kegs available at all times. With this said, they are going to show normal wear and tear. We try not to purchase from Pepsi or Coke to avoid heavily used kegs. We are not implying that our kegs are not quality…we just want to avoid any misunderstandings. Most of the kegs have black protective tops and bottoms, some are blue. We may have a few green, red or yellow tops. If you want a particular color, please indicate that at checkout time and we will try to accommodate you.

 

5 Gallon Cornelius Keg (Ball Lock) Used – remember promo code CINCO to get $5 off a $55 order

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