Episode 274 | Using PET Kegs For A Pale Lager
The Brülosophy Podcast
Marshall Schott
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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The most common material used to make kegs is stainless steel, but over the last few years, manufacturers have released kegs made of alternative materials. In this episode, contributor Will Lovell sits down with Marshall to chat about the use of PET kegs and the results of an xBmt comparing them to standard stainless kegs.
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| 1:00.0 | There's evidence to suggest that beer was initially stored in ceramic vessels, though |
| 1:04.3 | as brewing knowledge progressed, would became the material of choice followed by glass, |
| 1:08.0 | aluminum and stainless steel. But as a relatively recently, those aren't the only options. |
| 1:13.5 | This is the Bruloscopy podcast. I'm your host, Marshall Schott. On this episode, I'm joined by |
| 1:17.2 | contributor Will Lovell to chat about the impact storage in a PE-teap keg has on beer, specifically a |
| 1:23.5 | pale auger. So as long as I've been in home brewing, Marshall, what I remember is stainless steel |
| 1:28.7 | as being the only option if you want to get into kegging. So it's really exciting that companies |
| 1:32.5 | like Keglin have come on more recently and got into using other materials like Polyurethane. |
| 1:37.7 | Yeah, yeah. Like you, when I started kegging back in 2011, the only option I was aware of were |
| 1:42.6 | these stainless steel corny kegs for home brewers, at least. And on the commercial scale, |
| 1:46.4 | that was Sankie kegs, which again, they were all stainless steel. And at least that's what I'd |
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