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Hi Guys,

I'm setting up a home bar at the moment. I bought all the gear (cooler, tap, regulator) from the UK on eBay. now the tap is stella branded, the keg fitting is S-Type/Sankey but the gas fitting is causing me some trouble. A mate in the business took a look at it and didn't recognise the gas connection as one he's worked with before, he guessed it might be specific to a gas bottle stella use?? At the minute I guess my options are to completely replace the regulator or to find a bottle that fits my regulator... since I know very little about this whole can of worms I was wondering could anyone shed some light on this? Anyone know what type bottle stella uses of where you could get one?

thanks for any help!

I really doubt that Inbev would bother with a proprietary co2 regulator. It would make no sense, as they would then have to get the gas suppliers to fill special bottles for them. A lot of extra trouble for no benefit.

Can you post a picture of the regulator? The bit that screws on to the bottle, with a coin in the frame for perspective, would be the way to go.

CO2 bottles and mixed gas bottles have different connections and need different regulators - do you think this might be your issue?

"bigears":dcpt0lrk wrote: CO2 bottles and mixed gas bottles have different connections and need different regulators - do you think this might be your issue?[/quote:dcpt0lrk]

i had this issue with my homebar, the supplier in the U.K. thought i said homebrew over the phone and sent me a 4 way co2 reg instead of a mixed gas reg, as far as i am aware the bottle side connection for mixed gas is female while the bottle side connection for co2 is male, don't know if this is any help.

Thanks for the responses guys. Its possible it's a problem regarding mixed gas v co2 connections if UK kegs are based on a different system?

Anyway I think the best idea is if I post a pic of the connection, will do this asap.

cheers!

If you can post a pic of the connector on the gas bottle and the connector on the regulator that should clear it up.

Irish pubs use mixed gas for most beers, lagers/ales on 50/50 and Stout on 70/30. Homebrewers normally use CO2.