VEVOR offers a wide range of parts, connection types, and draft beer system specifications to meet your needs. Many kegerator accessories can be used to fix or upgrade a draft beer system. These include new draft beer towers and beer faucets, corny kegs, cleaning kegs and line-cleaning equipment, and precision CO2 regulators. The range includes corny kegs for homebrewing and forced carbonation. The materials used to make each kegerator accessory are food safe. They also seal well and work with standard kegerator and draft beer system configurations in both home bars and business draft installations.
Are you setting up a new home kegerator system with all the parts you need for a full draft beer setup? With VEVOR kegerator accessories, you do not have to deal with the performance and compatibility issues that come with poorly designed draft beer system parts. By picking the incorrect kegerator accessories, you could end up with flat or over-carbonated beer due to inaccurate CO2 pressure regulation. Using the right kegerator accessories for your system keeps the draft beer system running smoothly. The result is a consistent, high-quality pour from every faucet on every keg.
When building, upgrading, or maintaining a kegerator or draft beer system, the type of accessories is the most important factor to consider. The different types of draft beer keregator accessories each perform a specific job in the system, such as storage, connection, pressure regulation, dispensing, or maintenance.
Corny kegs, formerly known as Cornelius kegs, are the standard pressure vessels for homebrewing and forced carbonation. They are made of food-grade stainless steel and can hold finished beer under CO2 pressure for forced carbonation and dispensing. A ball lock or pin lock post fitting on the keg lid connects the Corny keg to the CO2 regulator. It allows CO2 to enter the beer's headspace at a set pressure, carbonating the beer to the desired CO2 volume within a controlled timeframe.
The ball lock post configuration is the most common way to connect a corny keg at home. It has separate gas-in and liquid-out posts that keep the CO2 source and beer outlet from crossing over while the beer is being dispensed. Connect a cleaning keg to the draft line system using the same couplers and gas connections as a beer keg. The cleaning solution can flow through the draft lines, faucets, and tower parts without disassembling the dispensing system. That is possible because cleaning kegs have the same external dimensions and post fittings as standard corny kegs.
Kegerator accessories are crafted from food-grade stainless steel. Corny kegs and cleaning kegs feature pressure-rated lid seals and relief-valve safety fittings. The post designs meet the standards for both ball-lock and pin-lock draft systems.
Keg couplers and keg pumps are the parts that connect the commercial keg valve to the draft beer pouring system. The coupler type and connection standard are set by the keg manufacturer's valve specification, not by the user's choice. When you try to connect a commercial beer keg, the wrong coupler type will stop it from pressurizing and connecting.
The D-type Sankey coupler is the standard kegerator accessory for most North American domestic beer brands.
An inserted probe and a quarter-turn locking action on a keg coupler engage the keg valve, opening it. The coupler body connects the CO2 supply line and the beer outlet line, forming a sealed connection that maintains keg pressure. Keg pumps replace the standard coupler's CO2 supply connection with a hand-operated air pump that pressurizes the keg headspace with room air instead of CO2.
It is suitable for party taps where the keg will be consumed all at once. The oxidation effects of air contact on the beer are acceptable because it will only be consumed over a short time. Keg couplers come in all the main coupler types. Kegerator accessories feature food-grade internal seals, stainless-steel probe construction, and pressure-rated body castings that keep the seals intact.
Draft beer towers, beer faucets, and CO2 regulators are kegerator accessories that are part of a finished draft beer system and regulate pressure and ensure a good pour. You can put a draft beer tower on top of a kegerator cabinet or a bar top. It has a single upright column that holds the beer line, tap handle, and faucet. Kegerator accessories make the dispensing point easy to reach above the bar surface. The tower body of the kegerator accessories acts as a thermal barrier. It helps keep the beer line inside the tower at keg temperature, preventing foam from forming when the line warms up between pours.
Beer faucets control the flow of beer from the beer line to the glass. They use a forward-pull lever action to open the faucet valve for a smooth pour. Compared with a fully open faucet valve, a partially open one creates more turbulence in the beer flow, wasting beer and making serving less efficient.
CO2 regulators control the pressure of the CO2 supply going from the CO2 cylinder to the keg. Primary regulators lower the high storage pressure of the CO2 cylinder to the working pressure range of the draft system. Secondary regulators let you set a different pressure for each keg in a system with multiple kegs, since different types of beer require different serving pressures. CO2 regulators have two gauges: one shows the pressure in the cylinder, and the other shows the pressure at the working output.
The first step is to find the right types of kegerator accessories for the draft beer system setup or upgrade. Continue to check whether the chosen parts fit together correctly and meet the required quality and system performance for the installation.
Kegerator accessories must work with the correct keg standards, CO2 supply configuration, and draft system layout. It is a basic specification requirement that checks whether each kegerator accessory connects correctly and maintains stable pressure at all system interfaces.
When connecting the keg outlet to the draft beer tower faucet, the draft beer tower beer line diameter and fittings must match the beer line tubing size. It prevents the pressurized beer line from needing extra connection points or reducers that could cause leaks. The pressure regulator's inlet thread needs to match the CO2 cylinder's outlet valve thread. The standard CO2 cylinder valve thread for most draft beer CO2 supply cylinders in North America is CGA-320.
Regulators with inlet threads that do not match the cylinder's valve thread require an adapter fitting, which introduces a potential leak point. Choose the right corny keg post fitting compatibility (ball lock vs. pin lock) across the corny keg and the gas-in and liquid-out disconnects. It will ensure the correct, cross-connection-proof assembly of the whole keg-to-faucet system.
The working parts of kegerator accessories determine how precisely, conveniently, and cleanly the draft beer system works for daily cleaning and serving needs. The carbonation consistency over the full service life of a CO2 cylinder depends on how well the regulator controls the output pressure. Better regulators keep the output pressure stable from full to almost empty, while worse regulators let it drift as the cylinder pressure drops. For consistency, it depends on how precisely the beer faucet's flow control works.
A faucet with a smooth, positive valve action that opens fully with a single forward lever motion makes a clean, turbulence-free pour with consistent foam formation. Draft beer tower insulation keeps the beer line at almost keg temperature between pours. Hence, the warm line beer that causes foamy pours at the beginning of each serving is eliminated. Insulated tower bodies and recirculating glycol systems in premium tower configurations keep the beer line at near-keg temperature at all times.
When you have more than one keg at home, keg collars make it easy to tell them apart. You can print or write a label on the outside of each keg that lists the beer style, brew date, carbonation level, and serving pressure. That way, you can keep track of the different beers in kegerator accessories with multiple tap connections.
VEVOR has all the kegerator accessories, keg standards, pressure specs, and connection configurations you need. Our collection includes kegerator accessories, including cleaning supplies, corny kegs, keg couplers, draft beer towers, keg pumps, keg collars, beer faucets, and CO2 regulators. All kegerator accessories are made from food-safe materials and are compatible with standard kegerators and commercial draft beer systems. Check out our full range of kegerator accessories to find the right parts for building, upgrading, or maintaining your draft beer system.
The type of kegerator accessories keg coupler to use depends on the valve standard used by the beer brand and the country of origin of the commercial keg being tapped. It does not depend on the kegerator or draft system being used. Most North American beer brands use the D-type Sankey coupler to connect their kegs.
A corny keg is a reusable stainless steel pressure vessel that can store and serve finished homebrewed or widely sourced beer under CO2 pressure. A cleaning keg has the same exterior measurements and post fittings as a corny keg. However, it is filled with a cleaning solution for the draft lines rather than beer.
A good CO2 regulator has either a two-stage pressure reduction device or a precision single-stage diaphragm. It keeps the output pressure stable as the CO2 cylinder goes from full to almost empty. That is possible because the input pressure drops as the cylinder empties.