My local gas store has been closed during COVID-19 lockdown so I've had to be careful about the amount of CO2 I use. One useful way I've found to conserve CO2 when purging kegs is to simply use the leftover gas already stored in a keg that's been finished. An empty keg at beer serving pressure is more than enough to fully push out the sanitiser. All that's needed is a jumper from one gas post to the other.
I use the co2 from fermentation to push the sanitizer out of the serving keg. Free gas and as pure as you could ever want! I usually chain together multiple kegs to harvest co2 gas.
@@glenforneris3816 I do the same. Purge the keg of sanitizer and oxygen with C02 from fermenting then capture about 10 PSI for closed transfer head pressure to keep the foam down. Cheers.
loved the video. I tried something similar before but struggled with tubing on the plastic speidel spigots, even with hose clamps. Could you share what you used? / how you keep them in place ? + anything needed on the keg side? Thanks
Hey! I used silicon tubes with no clamps on the Speidel spigots, and with clamps on the kegs ballposts. This is the tube I used (norwegian website) www.bryggselv.no/silikonslange/400236/silikonslange-9mm-1m
I plan on it. I did a semi-closed transfer this week and loved it, but I feel like o2 is probably still getting in a little so I want to do full closed. I have the SS brewtech brew bucket and what I tried to do was hook up a hose from spigot to the beer post on the keg. It worked great however on the top, I remove the airlock so it doesn't get sucked in and left the hole open on the top. Next time, I will find a way to connect up the co2 to the top. Your video was a big help to understand this part. Thank you! Cheers!
@@WreckedBrewery I also use the SS Bucket, I drilled the lid and attached a gas post, works well but you do get gas escaping through the lid seal even at low pressure.
Hello Christian. I'm watching you from Poland. Your home brewery is impressive. Your films are inspirational. Thanks to you I discovered Brewfather aplication, it's cool. Now I testing it. Unfortunately I don't understand Norwegian :-). You thought about English subtitles. Cheers, Piotr.
Hey Piotr! 😀 Thank you for the kind words! Its super nice to have a brewery like this. Everything is in order and ready to go at all times 😀 Brewfather is by far the best brewing software out there. Go premium, you will not regret 😀 Its a bit tricky to text my norwegian videoes to english but I am looking into it 😊 Cheers, and happy brewing 😀🍻
You can reuse your sanitizer a number of times before you dump it down the drain. I use mine four times before dumping it. As long as it's clear and the ph is correct multiple use is not a problem.
Uffda 😬 Skulle visst hvor kleint det er å se seg selv på engelsk du 😜 Det blir litt av hvert framover. Kjenner flyten er bedre på norsk, men vi tåler litt engelsk også innimellom 😀🍻
can you tell me the tubing/hose sizes that you use and how it is connected to your keg beer disconnect. I have just got a couple of the 30l Speidel fermenters with the stainless spigots (although i will also get the plastic as you have as spares) I can already see i need a thicker type hose to attach nicely to the spigot (approx 10mm ID tube i guess) and a splice to my usual set up which uses 3/8" OD to fit into my John Guest fitting and beer disconnect. I am confused how i can do this. Please help :)
Newby question, What's the best way to get hoppy fermented beers from the grainfather conical into a 0.5 Liter bottles. Carbonate either on corny keg with co2 or on bottle with suger. What would you prefer. And would you cold crash it. How would you proceed.
This video showed me how to do a closed transfer and truly made it seem easy. Thank you so much! Can I ask you a question that will help me a lot? Why do you bother cold-crashing your NEIPA in the spigot fermenter, potentially risking oxidation? I would think cold-crashing to drop hop material to the bottom would not matter so much with a spigot system (it's not like you are worrying about clogging a siphon that draws from the top where there is floating hop matter). Why not transfer warm and crash in the keg? I have a CO2 harvesting system but still worry about oxidizing NEIPA, so I just wonder why you feel it is worth the (small) risk. Thank you!
Hey! As long as there is a positive pressure in the fermenter whilst Cold Crashing I don’t think there’s a risk of oxidation. I have to CC because there is just too much material from the dry hopping etc that otherwise would have come into the keg 😊
First, i really enjoyed the video. I do have a question... When you use co2 to push the starsan (ss) out, your adding pressure to your keg. I could see there being very limited o2 in there like you said... however, when you go to release the pressure in the keg to match or less then the pressure of your fermenter, your releasing that co2 for something... wouldnt you be adding air to this keg by releasing the pressure? just trying to better understand so i can give this a try my self. great vid!
Hey Michael 😊 I think I understand your concern and question. It’s not possible for anything to sneak inside the keg’s valve when the co2 is released. It’s like a one way door when the pressure is higher on the inside. However if you continue to hold the valve open AFTER the pressure is released, then you are absolutely right 😊 So just stop in time because you can have a little bit of pressure in the keg when transferring the beer 😊
That is a very cool system. I want to avoid air intake/suckback into the fermenter when cold crashing and then do a closed transfer. I use standard buckets and S type bubblers. I am not confident that the buckets will be OK under negative pressure and shrinking. Have you tried this? What type of fermenters and airlocks do you use on these? Maybe i will upgrade for my hoppy beers. I don't have the funds for fancy stainless steel yet. Thanks for the vid.
Hey Tom! I don’t think the standard buckets can handle negative pressure. The ones I use are Speidel buckets, and they handle it. Have not tested just how much they can handle tho. Stainless is brest, but pricey 😀😀
I have the 30L Speidel and I have used 2 spigots, with the top spigot used as a blow-off. I'm also thinking of hooking that blow-off to a sanitized keg to capture CO2 from fermentation. @TheNextBatch , I have been resisting cold crashing with my Speidel fermenter as I don't have a good way to add CO2 to keep it from imploding. I've thought of filling a big balloon with CO2 at attaching it to the top spigot, but I have not tried that yet.
Great video! So as I understand with Speidel plastic fermenter it is safe to let it have negative pressure during cold crash? If it is, I know what am I buying next. :) I am thinking having the same process, just instead of using sodastream, I can fill the headspace of the fermentor with CO2 from the purged keg.
I'm trying to avoid using CO2 and transfers. I ferment, condition (natural) and serve from the same keg. I have a floating dip tube that worked fine at first, but now seems to get disorientated and just sucks the CO2. Wonder if anybody else had this problem?
Thanks for sharing. I tried doing a CO2 push transfer and it took about an hour and thought I was doing something wrong. Is a slow transfer for a 5 gallon (19L) batch normal?
Sorry det heter vel 60 liter speidel gjæringskar 😩. Har du prøvet oksygen fri overføring på den? www.bryggselv.no/speidel/101940/gjæringskar-60l-med-tappekran-and-gjærlås
This video is about closed transfer. It does not matter what you want to call the beer 😀 But, yes, it was an IPA. East Coast IPA, also called NEIPA. This method does not enhance the beer, but it keeps it from getting oxidized and ruined.
