You can pull up and twist the ring on your lid's pressure release valve 90 degrees to lock it into an open position.

Hi Matt, I tried your closed transfer technique today and it worked out very well. It was my first time doing a closed transfer to a keg. Your instructions were very concise and it only took 11 minutes to transfer. This will be be the last time I transfer from a secondary plastic fermenter ( unless I make a fruit addition to my beer) as I am moving to pressure fermenting in a corny Keg next. I'm pretty excited about that. thanks again for sharing your transfer system,

Hello again Matt - I do something very similar (though I am shiphoning out of glass carboys). The only extra thing on my transfer is that instead of using the gas fitting to vent co2 out of the keg and into the room, and having the vent in the fermenter to let in air.... I have a tube between those two so that the co2 leaving the keg goes into the top of the fermenter. It may be overkill, but I don't like the air (oxygen) sitting on top of the beer in the fermenter.

@TroubleBrewing

3 жыл бұрын

Hey I just checked my email, thanks for the image! A few things... 1) I am familiar with that setup but I mainly wanted to cover a way to do this with a very limited part requirement. 2) plastic fermenters are very sensitive to pressure so when you are recirculating I have seen people do damage to plastic fermenters when doing that way. So I just opt for this. 3) As far as the o2 concern on the top, im sure there is some o2 that gets into the fermenter but there "should" be a co2 blanket over that beer from fermentation where very little o2 would be in contact, in theory. Also there is less risk to begin with since the liquid is not being shaken up.

@craigdjordan

2 жыл бұрын

I do the same. Works well. I had not seen anyone else do this. So, I’m not alone.

@njpmn

2 жыл бұрын

@@craigdjordan you must be digging deep in the archives to find this one. I just bought a couple 6 gallon torpedo Corny's as fermenters. Plan to set them up for similar closed system transfer.

@tman9338

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea

Excellent video, thank you! Will be trying this later in the week. Cheers!

Great video and explanation. I will definitely be using this method. Thank you

Great video dude thank you!

How do you avoid over filing the keg (which I'm assuming will just spill out the gas disconnect)? Could you use a check valve gas disconnect which I'm thinking will just stop the flow when liquid hits it? My brew batches are normally a couple of litres more than the 19 litre corny and i transfer into a purged but open corny so I see when it's full and i just bottle the extra.

I use a really similar method to this. Pushing out the star san with CO2 does a good job of making sure all components are sanitized. I also like to run the star san through my kegerator tap just to be sure it is sanitized as well. I have had a batch of beer that was amazing, but then soured a few weeks after kegging and the sanitation of my tap was the only possible source. To conserve CO2 when flushing, I typically just give it enough CO2 to get the flow going then let it gravity drain out of the keg from there (will work as long as you don't pull vacuum in the keg). One difference is that I don't leave the star san heel in the keg. I think if you checked there would be a few oz of heel. I just turn my keg upside down for 5-10 minutes, let it all drain out, then purge the keg once more.

@TroubleBrewing

2 жыл бұрын

Yea there is no doubt that there may be a few oz of star san at the bottom of the keg. I do my best to be patient and try to push out as much as I can but I never really worried about this after looking into it a bit more and how star san could effect beer flavor/character. I referenced this - brulosophy.com/2019/10/21/the-impact-star-san-foam-has-on-beer-character-exbeeriment-results/

Great (and simple) explanation Matt! That is my setup (with a NB big mouth bubbler plastic fermentor with spigot) and awhile ago I tried doing it that way but also applying a few pounds of CO2 pressure on top. Even with applying a few pounds of CO2 pressure on top the fermentor 'sucked in' which made me nervous (thought it might implode?)!

@TroubleBrewing

2 жыл бұрын

Yea there is really no need to apply the pressure on the top (gravity is your friend). There should be a "layer" of co2 on top of your beer anyway from fermentation so when o2 gets sucked in on the top it should not effect the beer. Also these plastic fermenters are really not built to hold a ton of pressure so things can go wrong quickly if too much pressure is applied as well.

How do you know when there is a pound of pressure in keg? Also when you hook up co2 line to get rid of star san what pressure?

@TroubleBrewing

Жыл бұрын

Hey Joe! When I said a lb of pressure I just ment that there should still be some pressure but not a ton. So just lift the PRV to let most but not all the pressure out. Just need enough to purge the line that hooks up to the fermenter. When hooking up for starsan removal it does not need to be alot of pressure. Maybe like after 1 minute of co2 pushing into the keg you can hook up the line to remove the starsan. Just want to make sure co2 is continuously flowing into the keg to displace the starsan.

Just got into your videos, great content. Can you give me the measurements of the tubing you used? Thanks!

@TroubleBrewing

2 жыл бұрын

The measurement is really dependent on the distance between the table and your keg. But mine is 15". Also thanks for checking out the content!

@nromagnola

2 жыл бұрын

@@TroubleBrewing I was actually referring to the ID and OD. Sorry, I should’ve clarified.

curious how much star san is left in the keg after you push it out...people who cut their dip tubes probably have a decent ammount.

@TroubleBrewing

3 жыл бұрын

Im not sure why you would need to cut your dip tube at all unless you ferment in the keg? But then there is floating dip tubes that pull from the top I would think would work better in that case. Most sediment that settles down after you cold crash it in the kegerator will clear up after a few pints. If you don't use a floating dip tube or you dont cut your dip tube the amount of star san could be negligible. If you are concerned about it though let the keg sit for a few hours after the initial push out and then push it out again with Co2, that will clear up any access Star San in the keg.

Finally a VID for us guys still using plastic buckets for transfers?

Will this work if I am using a floating dip tube?

@TroubleBrewing

2 жыл бұрын

I dont see any reason why it wouldn't work, worst case if it doesn't I would think you would just need to increase the height of the fermenter above the keg by alittle bit? But I would think it would work!

Doesn't oxygen get sucked into the fermenter when you open the top?

@TroubleBrewing

Жыл бұрын

Hey JC, yea im sure it does. It shouldn't be a problem though for two reasons. 1) Co2 is heavier then o2, from fermentation there should be quite a bit of Co2 "blanketing" the beer. 2) As long as the top of the beer is not splashed around there shouldn't be any o2 mixing into the beer due to the blanket AND its hard for o2 to be mixed into anything without agitation.

Just turn the release valve 90 degree and it's going to hold it open.

@TroubleBrewing

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! That also works. Cheers

Since CO2 is heavier than air, would you really need to fully fill the serving keg. Eg, if you partly fill it with CO2, the CO2 will sit at the bottom, with o2 on top. You then fill it with beer via the beer QD, which pushes.from the bottom , pushing.out first the O2 on top, and then the CO2 below it?

@TroubleBrewing

Жыл бұрын

Yep this would work! You dont need to completely fill the keg with Co2, I do try to get most of the o2 out though just incase! But its entirely precautionary.

I feel Homebrew 4 Life influence here.

@TroubleBrewing

3 жыл бұрын

Love those guys! Not sure if they talked about this or not.

I was going to add a comment but then I read the community guidelines.