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A cornelius keg (also known as Cornies) is a metal container mostly used to hold home brewed beer. Cornelius kegs were originally made by the IMI Cornelius Company for the soda industry. Since the arrival of new technology such us Bag-In-Box (BIB) packages Coke and Pepsi bottlers started selling their cornelius.
Specifications Cornelius kegs comes in many sizes: They can hold a maximun of 130 PSI. They have a tap in middle of the top which is used for cleaning, filling and tapping. There are 2 pin-valves for forced CO2 (IN red-coloured) and liquid (OUT black-coloured) and a safety one for releasing presure in case this is too much, Coke and Pepsi has their standards for the pin-valves Coke ones are Pin-Lock and Pepsi ones are Ball-Lock, really isn't any advantage or disadvantage to either system conectors. According to a page on the Quality Wine and Ale Supply web site, there is a currently (as of 10/27/2006) a shortage of Cornelius kegs. The page states that the price of stainless steel is very high presently and that both used and new Cornelius kegs are "in short supply." It goes on to note that both Pepsi and Coke have abandoned the Cornelius keg in favor of "aseptic bags." This is followed by the assertion that all of Pepsi's used Cornelius kegs have been sold to the Chinese. (Confirmation of this assertion would be nice.) If that is the case, then, as the Quality Wine page asserts, there could very well be a shortage in the market for used Cornelius kegs. See the paragraph at the top of: http://www.homebrewit.com/aisle/2220 (10/27/2006) | ||||||||
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