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What you can pour
Cocktails, beer, wine, mocktails, what to avoid.
If you can pour it cold, you can Tanky it. Cocktail pre-mixes, wine, beer, spritz, negroni, margarita, sangria, kombucha, cold brew, iced chai, sparkling water, the lot. The only drinks to avoid are thick/pulpy/heavily-carbonated under high pressure (raw fruit pulp can clog the tap line; straight soda over-pressurises).
Yes. Best results: pour beer in slowly down the side of the tank to minimise foaming, then gas it. The CO₂ keeps existing carbonation alive without over-pressurising. Light lagers, pale ales, IPAs all pour well. Heavy stouts work but expect more head.
Absolutely. Ice in the tank keeps things colder for longer on hot days. Leave 10-15% headspace at the top so the lid can seal and pressure can build. Crushed ice melts faster but blends temperature better; cubes last longer.
No, Tanky pressurises and dispenses, it doesn't carbonate. Use pre-carbonated or pre-mixed drinks for best results.
Yes. Still wine pours beautifully and picks up a light spritz from the CO₂, basically a frizzante. For sparkling, pour gently down the side of the tank to keep the bubbles. Sangria works too, as long as you strain out all the fruit first, pulp and chunks clog the tap line. Keep the fruit in the glass.
All three are ideal, they're some of our most-poured non-alc options. Cold brew in particular develops a smooth, nitro-style head from the CO₂. Just strain out any tea leaves, fruit, or sediment first so nothing blocks the tap.
Yes, pre-fizzed mixers are perfect, they keep their bubbles and the cartridge tops them up. Add fizzy mixers last when you're filling, and don't go past the max-fill line so there's headspace for pressure. Just remember Tanky can't carbonate a flat drink from scratch, it pressurises and pours what's already in there.
Anything that won't pour clean from a tap. The main ones: raw pulp, fruit chunks, and whole herbs (they clog the line, so strain juice and garnish the glass instead); dairy or cream (build the clean base in Tanky and add milk in the glass after pouring); and blended or frozen slushies (they won't flow through the tap). Shaken sours and muddled cocktails like a mojito or old fashioned are built per glass, not kegged. Everything else, if you can pour it cold, you can Tanky it.
