The way this came about has to do with me bottling some homebrew with my Blichmann beer gun. I was going to post a link to my page about it, but apparently I haven’t created one yet…look for it soon.

My kegerator is setup with a dual tap and for the bottling gun I needed an extra gas line. I picked up a ‘T’ for my CO2 tubing, along with several other parts and split off one of my main lines to make a third. All-in-all it worked well, however the problem I had was how to keep the third line shut-off when I’m not bottling. I added a shut-off valve to it, however with all the hoses, 2 kegs, and some beer bottles in the kegerator, anytime I moved something the valve seemed to get bumped. So I removed the valve and just kept a gas connector on the end of it as a plug.

I don’t recall exactly what I did, but one night after work, I went to poor some of my Amarillo Shoal Pale Ale and NOTHING. I quickly opened the kegerator door and looked at my gauge..EMPTY. Ugghh!

I was frustrated enough, but, after I picked up a refill on my CO2 ($12.00 at a local gas supply store – not bad) I took out everything in the kegerator, took apart all the hoses and put it back to the ‘stock’ setup. I was back in business and could kick back and enjoy a cold one.  They lost a little carb, but not too bad.

Fast forward a little while… I must not have learned, because I really wanted to bottle some to share, so I connected it all back up – just made everything tighter. I am placing an order for a 4-way CO2 distributor, and some other parts, to do this properly. I will also be moving my CO2 to the outside of the kegerator so I can fit 3 kegs inside a lot easier. Maybe one day I’ll build a bar and add a 3rd tap, that would be awesome!