The FridgeTap® is a DIY complete kit; a CO2 pressure regulated beer tap that uses brewery approved CO2 gas. Made in the US with high quality stainless steel, brass and aluminum. The top-of-the-line regulator is made in Japan, and has an integrated puncture pin and seal for the included 74g CO2 cylinders. One CO2 cylinder will easily preserve and push all the beer out of 1/6 and ¼ beer barrels. This kit includes 2 CO2-Filled 74g Cylinders.
How it Works The FridgeTap® comes as a DIY kit. DO NOT BE AFRAID!
• Get all the contents out of the box and mock fit all the components
• The coupler attaches to the keg – connect the hoses, but do not trim them
• Find a place on the fridge door to drill a hole. Make sure the handle will clear the freezer door.
• Insert the faucet, mount the drip tray on door face under faucet – allow for a tall glass
• Run the beer line from the faucet to the coupler
• Connect the gas line from the regulator to the side of coupler
• Arrange the inside of the fridge for the keg space
• Connect the keg, lock down the handle, relieve some pressure
• Screw in a CO2 cartridge and hang it on side of keg
• Open the faucet tap- slowly turn on the regulator a little at a time until good flow.
Variations
The FridgeTap® is available in two different configurations depending on the keg style you are using. 99.9% of the time, go with the default.
1. The standard default is P/N 50550 with the most widely used in North America, the US Sankey base.
2. The next most popular is P/N 50590 which is used on some European kegs. Ask your beer retailer to be sure.
Please call us for this version! Are there others? Yes, and all you must do is contact us and we will try to make it happen for you
Keep it COLD
We cannot emphasize enough how important it is to keep the keg in a super cold environment. Ideally, between 36F to 40F. Seriously. Cold beer matters especially when you apply CO2 to the keg, otherwise, you will be an expert on foam. You have probably seen a YETI or similar hard shell cooler. It is thick with insulation for a reason, to keep heat out and cold in. Putting a keg in your fridge is the ultimate solution for cold beer. Cold beer keeps the CO2 in solution in the beer. Our CO2 gas and regulator maintains the CO2 content.
Be Kind…Air Kills Beer™
When you see someone pumping air into a beer keg, rather than CO2, they are forcing the degradation of the beer as the hand pumped air forces the carbonation out of the beer…no wonder it goes flat so quickly! The FridgeTap® DIY kit comes with everything you need except a drill, a screwdriver and the keg! Each unit comes with two of the 74g CO2 Filled cylinders which are truly beverage grade and brewery approved.
*California Residents' Prop 65 Warning: This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. Why is this applicable to this product? To learn more please click here.
Back Story
In 1989 we were at a 2-day party in a rural area of Ohio. There were 20 of us at an old farmhouse with a huge empty barn. We brought a keg, roasted a pig, chased down and cooked a few chickens. But we had arrived late the first night and could not kick the keg. So, the next morning, we wanted the party to continue and tried the keg. It was still on ice, but we had been using a hand operated air pump. At that time, we did not realize that pumping air into a keg causes it to lose CO2 carbonation. We literally pushed the CO2 out and the result was horrible flat beer. That next week, back at Leland Gas Technologies in New Jersey, we immediately took that hand pump off the picnic tap and replaced it with one of our regulators and screwed in a 74g CO2 cylinder that we had in stock. The Leland CO2 PicnicTap® was born and is hand made in New Jersey to this day. Since then, we have sold thousands of this device to consumers and breweries around the world. Breweries love the CO2 PicnicTap® because they are very fickle about the quality and consistency of their beer. They spend a lot of time and effort to ensure quality and our device took away the variability of not having the correct CO2 content in their beer, a vital ingredient and key to proper mouth feel. We round up our friend group and go back to that farmhouse every year. But now, when we arrive, everyone puts on a huge smile when we break out the CO2 PicnicTap®. We quickly became the hero of that party and the memories we have built can never be forgotten. This FridgeTap® is the cousin of the famous Leland CO2 PicnicTap® which we quickly developed once we realized that the CO2 PicnicTap® could not fit in a refrigerator! We finalized the CO2 FridgeTap® in the Fall of 2012 just as superstorm Sandy slammed into our current manufacturing facility in South Plainfield, New Jersey where our well-trained technicians build out these great tap products. You too have a chance to obtain the highest quality restaurant grade draft beer equipment in the world and you can be the hero of the party.
