How do I serve beer in my home bar?

I have a home bar and have - hand pull beer engine, under bar cooler, gas regulator, freeflow font, co2 cylinder,keg couplers and pipework. Can I pull a traditional beer (cask) through my cooler using my beer engine? Do I have to have the barrel horizontal or can I pull beer with a spikey thing vertically - if I can what about the hard and soft pegs?

Now onto keg beer - what pressure should I set my regulator to , to pull a lager through the freeflow font/

A ny other tips would be greatHow do I serve beer in my home bar?
You could theoretically use a cask with your tapping system.

The problem is you have to make an air tight seal with the barrel. You might try placing a large cork with a couple of holes in it (one for a dip tube and one for the co2 line) in the bung hole with the keg lying on it's side.



You will have to come up with some kind of band clamp to hold in the cork due to the pressure in the barrel.



7 psi serving pressure



If you are making home brew, set the regulator at 30 psi and shake the keg for 10 minutes to force carbonate the beer then reduce to serving pressure.
I don't know because I'm not very technically knowledgable about how it gets to taste like it does, but if anyone knows, it will definitely be these guys:-



http://www.camra.org.uk/



Should be contact details on there for the group nearest to you and I bet they will know all you ever wanted to know about it.How do I serve beer in my home bar?
sorry, don't know, but when you get it fixed up I'll come round and test it for you
Wow You know how to show off...!!!

But your forgot to invite your distributor WHO has all the answers.How do I serve beer in my home bar?
buy bottles or cans



quicker in the long run



your guests will be dieing of thirst man
You will probably want some sort of cask breather system rather than hard/soft pegs for a home system unless you can be sure of drinking the entire cask in 2 or 3 days.

It is probably worth you getting the Camra book on Cellarmanship.