Great piece of kit and I love it. Another use is to have a small clear plastic bottle and use it as a sight glass. Allows you to spot if the beer is cloudy before it hit the corney.
Loving the idea of having a little picnic tap on it. In west Europe there is barely any beer in PET, but this would be really nice instead of a minikeg to have in a cooler.
Thanks Gash, great little gadget. Used one today to do a closed transfer of 'hop tea' out of a (purged) PET bottle into my keg before the beer transfer. Great way of excluding any O2.
I put mine to good use today. First purged my transfer lines and poured off my hydro sample into a bottle, then bottled a couple of samplers off my Fermzilla. Then used them to clean the transfer lines after kegging. They are a real handy piece of kit for next to nothing in cost.
I use it to clarify my beer, I take a white labs vial, fill it with gelatin and water, pressurize it higher than what my fermzilla is pressure fermenting at, and allow it to transfer in to the fermzilla that way. Oxygen free clarification.😃
Another possible use is between the blow off tube and the fermenter during fermentation - put a vessel large enough to contain the contents of the blow off bottle in the "tee" and then during cold crash - no fear of sucking the water/star san solution back into the fermenter. For added security, you can put a check valve in. Great video - your stuff is always thought provoking. Cheers!
Hey Gash, I hear you when you say you want a ball lock double adapter! FWIW you can use a 1/4" joiner or valve directly on the barb of the carb caps too. I have used this approach to make a double adapter as well as connect a carb cap to my bottle/can filling gun Cheers.
Love how flexible this system is. I use duotight 6.5mm joiners (KL14045) to connect two carbonation caps together to get the extension functionality. Same as what you show, but you dont need a bottle to plug up the third hole.†
I'm running this on my series x to have 4 removable lines heading in to the fridge, gives the opportunity to run different gases and different pressures and still have it all removable for moving the fridge around.
Thats a good idea too, I was thinking using this would free up the other port on the fermenter for aeration and carbonation, or something else. Cheers David!
Serving from even 2 liter bottle is kinda niche thing to do as for the same trouble you could just pour it. If the bottle is anyway finished within one go there is not much point in that. The other usecases are a bit more handy but still in many cases a double male ball lock adaptor would do quite well so a small bottle in the mix would not be needed. One thing that comes in mind would be adding gelatin to the beer so that in the bottle will go gelatin dissolved in water and one side goes to a cold crashing fermzilla and from the other you just pump co2 to transfer it and releasing pressure from the fermzilla. The T-piece would be particularly handy if kegland would make a beer bag style storage medium with pet bottle thread or something like that so you could bring the beer in a box like a winebag in a box and after use it would be either recyclable and tightly packable or disposable but still small so that you could avoid bringing for example a 5 liter keg and have to carry that back home.
Thanks for the tips Gash. I particularly like the idea of using it to set the spunding valve. Currently I just use mine for putting cleaning solution in a pet bottle and cleaning kegerator lines
What would be really something would be some kind of thread adapter for 5L plastic bottles... Big water bottles and that kind of thing. Would be so perfect for taking to the beach, etc.
You must be properly bored mate ;-). Although, I do like the idea of top harvesting yeast from the krausen with this little gadget. David Heath showed how top harvesting is easier and cleaner than harvesting from the “dreg”.
idk why homebrewers that bottle dont start using these to carbonate the beer instead of priming sugar... i want to do this eventually i dont like kegs because im not drinking more then 7 beers a week usually and the beer then starts to taste different in a bad way after some weeks. seems like on one side you can put in the beer and the other side your CO2 up to 10 PSI or 12 or so. am i right? there must be a way to do it. wouldnt the pressure stay in if you keep the cap on of course you would have to buy one of these for each bottle but you can reuse them.
is it possible to carbonate bottles using this thingy. I'm new to brewing and not a fan of adding sugar to bottles, also don't want to invest in a full kegging system at the moment.
Anyone know of how to get this product into Canada? Having a heck of a time finding them here in Calgary, Alberta? Starting to think of trying to find someone to 3D print it.
Brew Hardware makes a ball lock QD to ball lock QD jumper, www.brewhardware.com/product_p/ball_lock_jumperpost.htm, that does the majority of the things you're showcasing in this video and costs far less than the whole carb cap and tee assembly costs. I did have a question about this tee assembly, however. Do you think it is possible to connect a tube to both carb caps whilst in the tee and run them both down in the bottle? I would like to see if I could connect a carb stone and tube to the gas-in side to better carbonate while also having a tube for serving out from the bottle.
That thing has been out of stock for years, I check all the time and have never seen it in stock. in this video thats what I was talking about when I approached a local company, but they said people wouldnt be interested. Cheers Chris!
I am doing fine, still got a job and working from home. Have a new kid, baby boy 7 weeks old named Calib. Hope you and your family are all good. I was going to tune into your cast tonight but am a bit buggered from a bike ride today. Hope you have a good Easter and will try watch your cast next Friday. Cheers
