Kegs are pressurized and decked out with valves and tubes, and they're built in a way which lets brewers artificially carbonate the beer. Meanwhile, a barrel is just a barrel. Nowadays ...

Armed with a beer keg and some ingenuity, [AndrewW1977] got down to work, building a rig that could get the job done. The build starts by cutting the keg in half. A series of zigzag steel pieces ...

Mold. Gunk. Gross! We talked with two local draft-cleaning companies to learn the telltale signs of a dirty draft system, just in time for Tacoma Beer Week.