We have received many calls from home brewers regarding purchasing our cylinders which prompted us to make some inquiries.

At present you need to hire CO2 cylinders from the gas companies at around $110 per year and that's just the cylinder. Then you purchase the CO2. That's a lot of money per year especially if you do not brew great amounts. If you own your own cylinder you will not receive fills from the gas companies as they have stopped filling personally owned cylinders. If you purchase one of our cylinders you receive it full and the refills are only $20. Our cylinders hold 2.3 kg of CO2 and are small enough to take anywhere.

*See our resellers tab for our fill stations.

If there is not a fill station near you please contact us with your nearest Home Brew Store and we will see if they are interested in being a reseller and refiller. I am sure they will be.

Our 2.3 kilo cylinder will gas and push at least 18 x 19 litre kegs (342 litres)

I connected the gas through the hole in the side of the beer fridge, to the keg, and settled back to wait 2 days for it to gas up at 300 kpa (45 psi) and chill down. Beats waiting 2 weeks for the gas to develop in the bottle! Once the keg was cool, I dropped the pressure to 15 psi (100 kpa or 1 bar), and pulled the trigger!

Being a new venture, I had assessed that Beers 1 through to 5 would be ‘experimental’, and by then I should have the business sorted. Beer number 1 was bloody excellent – so I drank it! Beer number 2 came out similar, and so on. Keg 2 went down well, keg 3 is on the go now.

Summary – brilliant!

All up – keg, gun, reg, cylinder – about $585 give-or-take.
Normal kit is about $75- for each 18 litre keg, $135- for a regulator, and $115- for a gun, line and valves. Allow say $400- for kit with 2 kegs. If you are using conventional CO2 from a supplier, open an account, and give them about $120- up front for a cylinder. You will pay this money to them every year to ‘lease’ the cylinder, plus about $25- for a fill of gas. If you do 20 brews a year, you are paying about $1- a brew for gas and $6- a brew for your cylinder hire. You never own the cylinder – UNLESS – you use Air-Up!

With Air-Up, you BUY the cylinder for $276 – it’s YOURS. No yearly fee, no leases, and you can sell it whenever you like to another brewer, or the brew-shop! The gas-usage looks like being the same – about $1- a brew, but it is a little early to tell. I’ve put three brews through, blown out the dregs, cleaned lines, etc, and the High-pressure gauge hasn’t moved, except with daily temperature variations.

Summary – with an Air-Up cylinder and 20 brews a year over four years - $276- for the bottle and three fills at $20– total $336- for 80 brews = $4.20 per brew. WITH CIG at $120 a year lease, same time-frame, same number of brews – total = $555 = $6.93 a brew. And if you SELL your Air-Up cylinder after four years for, say 50% of purchase price, the refund brings your cost-of-gas-per-brew down to $2.47. With a CIG cylinder, you just give it back and get nothing.

To put this in perspective, the longer you brew, the more you save. The savings based on the above are $2.47 per brew, which leaves you enough cash to build 8 more brews! – That’s 480 cans or schooners or the bubbly gold stuff! And that is 120 cans per year over four years, which is one EXTRA every three days!

Roothie should get EXCITED!!!!!

Initially, 45 psi to drive the gas in. Then let the beer sit for a few days. Then drop the pressure to 15 psi and turn it off. Start pouring. When the beer slows, pump to 15 psi again. It’s normal to have to fiddle a bit. Basically, unless you are having a beer-a-thon, you leave the gas turned off. So gas usage is same as normal. The little cylinder holds about 42 cubic feet of gas, which is about 1000 litres, which is enough without ‘wastage’ to drive 55 brews from an 18 litre keg. Allow half efficiency due to cleaning lines etc, you still get 27 brews.

No. You are not pushing enough gas to freeze up a standard beer reg. For roof-tilers, nail-guns, tyre inflators etc, you need a special reg which won’t freeze with the gas you push through. Dave tells me he can get 1500 2 inch roof nails from a little cylinder, which is a full day’s work for a Roofie – without dragging air-lines all around the place. The little bottle sits in a backpack on their back! Check out the web site.

No. Definitely not! Once you have got a handle on making home-brew, you will find that an hours work and $20 in supplies beats the sugar-enriched, sulphur-dioxide sterilized, chemically-flavoured, ‘use-by-date’ stamped commercial beers EVERY DAY!



Dave and I are working on an upright cooler, with a danfoss compressor in the back. Gas line goes in, beer line comes out. Compressor runs off your second battery just like your car-fridge. Bottle runs off your Air-Up cylinder, which you can also use to inflate about 20 large tyres, - drive your rattle-gun and put out fires! An 18 litre keg holds the equivalent of 48 cans of fluid-replacement-therapy, which are 2 cartons.

I’ve travelled all four corners and the middle of GodZone on the same BMW motorcycle, and I’ve only got WA and Tassie to do in my Disco to achieve the same. I’m getting old now (almost 21, would you believe!) so Vicki and I are looking at boats. Brewing on-board is just a matter of having the breather on a long bit of hose, so the brew doesn’t leak out. A bit of fridge space, some plumbing for the lines, and a 2.3 kg bottle of Air-Up, and Johns your Uncle! Another advantage of kegging is NO BOTTLES to wash! NO breakages, NO explosions, NO cappings, NO adding sugar, NO waiting 2 weeks for the beer to ripen.

Life just got better!