[lightba6]

Hi,

I make my own beer and have enjoyed playing around with recipies and coming up with something new every time I make a new batch. I have set up a homemade kegorator running off of a CO2 system. Works great. But I find that I'd like more variety, so I'd like to expand my system to handle 3 different products at any given time. I may make one of these products seltzer water, as my fiance is german and only drinks carbonated water and I'm tired of lugging bottles home from the store. Anyway, that's not a big deal--I can easily figure out running two kegs off the same CO2 tank. My question has to do with nitrongenated beers. I want to experiment with using Nitrogen with some of my beers instead of CO2, as I figure I'll end up with a creamier beer, which I like.

Let me first say that I am aware that I can simply go buy a complete Nitrogen system setup and my problem is solved. But from what I see, they aren't cheap, and as this is basically an experiment for me, I'm not really looking to drop that kind of money just for 'creamier' beer. So with the understanding that I'm quite happy to sacrifice consistancy and 'ideal situations' for lower hardware costs, my question is this: is there anyway to essentially use my existing CO2 setup hooked up to a nitrogen tank to make this work? I will probalby not always have a nitrogen beer on tap, so I would like to basically have a 3 keg setup. I will keep two of them on CO2 (again, one will probably be water, but I could make it beer if I wanted to). The other one I may swap between Nitrogen and CO2. So if I just basically replicate my CO2 system and simply swap the CO2 for a nitrogen tank, would this work? Again, I am aware that this isn't idea, as without a nitrogen mixer, I'm not going to get consistant taste. Truth be told, that's almost a plus for me, as I enjoy something different each time (hense the reason for wanting three taps running instead of one).

I'm pretty new at this stuff, so forgive me if the answers are obvious. I'm getting by on pure chance, but I enjoy my beer, which I suppose all that really matters. Just looking to take it to the next level.

thanks!