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My uncle left me an old lucky lager keg with a wood bung in the side and the OG hand pump. I wanted to convert this keg to a boil kettle.

1. Is it possible with that wood bung?
2. Does this keg have some value that I shouldn't cut it up?

thanks
So Cal

SoCal Surfer wrote:My uncle left me an old lucky lager keg with a wood bung in the side and the OG hand pump. I wanted to convert this keg to a boil kettle.

1. Is it possible with that wood bung?
2. Does this keg have some value that I shouldn't cut it up?

thanks
So Cal

1. Yes, if you pull the bung & weld up the hole.
2. Not a clue. My 1/2 bbl keg is an old Hoff Stevens - side bung with a sankey coupler on top. There's a few models with the side bung, not all had the sankey coupler. Not sure about the Lucky's. If it is sankey, you can buy new plastic bungs to replace the wooden one & use it as it's meant to be used.

I have a few golden gate kegs that I use to ferment wine, cider, and bulk aagng beer. I replaced the wooden bung with silicone ones. Both of them benefit from extended aging and they don't tie up my corny kegs or fermenters.


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SoCal Surfer wrote:My uncle left me an old lucky lager keg with a wood bung in the side and the OG hand pump. I wanted to convert this keg to a boil kettle.

1. Is it possible with that wood bung?
2. Does this keg have some value that I shouldn't cut it up?

thanks
So Cal

http://morebeer.com/brewingtechniques/l ... arker.html

An old issue of brewing techniques on the B3 site (above) has some pics of older kegs with the bung in the side. I think the 3rd edition of The Complete Joy of Homebrewing had an illustration as well.

The keg might have value if you can find someone who has the capacity to brew 1/2 barrel size (15 gal.) batches and wants to cask condition a beer in a keg and then serve with a hand pump, CAMRA-style.

The Campaign for Real Ale says Real Ale is "beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide". I am a CAMRA purist in that I don't keg my beer - bottles only.

Beer_Baron wrote:

SoCal Surfer wrote:My uncle left me an old lucky lager keg with a wood bung in the side and the OG hand pump. I wanted to convert this keg to a boil kettle.

1. Is it possible with that wood bung?
2. Does this keg have some value that I shouldn't cut it up?

thanks
So Cal

http://morebeer.com/brewingtechniques/l ... arker.html

An old issue of brewing techniques on the B3 site (above) has some pics of older kegs with the bung in the side. I think the 3rd edition of The Complete Joy of Homebrewing had an illustration as well.

The keg might have value if you can find someone who has the capacity to brew 1/2 barrel size (15 gal.) batches and wants to cask condition a beer in a keg and then serve with a hand pump, CAMRA-style.

The Campaign for Real Ale says Real Ale is "beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide". I am a CAMRA purist in that I don't keg my beer - bottles only.

Most of the side bung kegs are Hoff Stevens, which are just a regular old sankey that happen to be shaped differently. That would probably work better in a Golden Gate. There's another firkin-style out there with a side bung, but the brand name is escaping me. It's likely a Firestone product, but so are a lot of different models/brands of kegs.

ok. that's a lot of info. thanks kids! Hmmmm..?????