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Default corny kegs

Corny kegs will work fine, just sanitize them well. You might try storing
your wine in them with nitrogen instead of CO2 to prevent carbonation,
unless it's sparkling wine.

"Alex" > wrote in message
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> Do stainless corny kegs make good long-term storage and transport
> vessels? I am going to move and have 3 batches in secondary right now.
> I can get used kegs online for $15 each and I can always use them for
> other things later. I would just purge with CO2, fill, and then store
> under about 5 psi - or whatever it would take to get the lids to seal.
>
> On another note, my sparkling wine turned out just fine. I have my
> regulator set to about 20 psi and am using a picnic tap on 15 ft of
> 3/16 hose. Very little foam and lots of bubbles. Defiantly cheaper
> than the bottled stuff in the store.
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> Alex.
>