NavyMarine1978

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I have been racking my brain and trying to think of a means of by-passing bottling and being able to serve directly out of my carboy without kegs or co2. Does anyone have ideas? The idea of adding a hand pump system is as far as I have considered but I am concerned about air being introduced into the carboy during the hand pumping process. I am still thinking out loud here. Any ideas or is this impossible?

hoppymonkey

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NO way. The carboys can't handle the pressure and you are just asking for trouble. Skip the experiment and buy a corny or may a tap a draft system.

Revvy

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Do a google search for "pressure barrel Fermenters." They're big in the UK but virtually unknown here in the states, don't know about Canada....

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hoppymonkey

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Never heard of those. They look to be pretty much be plastic casks. Be pretty cool if you like cask beer and don't have the $ for the real thing.

brewski08

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Just get a spray bottle head and wedge it in your bung hole. Just a quick squeeze and you'll be drinking some of that delicious nectar. It could also serve as a BMC drinker repellent.

...but in all seriousness, I'm sure there is a way. I think a carboy could handle the pressure as long as you got a tight fitting, and what you'd essentially be doing is creating a yeast-ier cask ale.

Golddiggie

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I wouldn't trust a carboy to not fail under carbonating pressure levels. You're talking over 30psi at room temp there. Do you really want to have the carboy bust/explode? Never mind the beer loss, think of the potential personal injury that could result.

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YES!

They call those things I mentioned earlier, PRESSURE barrels for a reason.

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brewski08

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Excuse my simple-folk logic, but I don't understand why a carboy couldn't handle this pressure? If the much less massive walls of a beer bottle can resist the pressure, why couldn't the walls of a much more massive carboy?

NavyMarine1978

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I was told of a contraption that used to be sold around here. It was described as a plastic, barrel like, container which housed a bladder which was inflated with air or something to displace head space. The pressure barrels seem to be hard to come by. On E-Bay, a 5 gallon pressure barrel would cost about $140 to ship here.

grem135

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Get your drinking buddies to help supply bottles and bottle your brew, or get a keg. The potential risk is not worth skimping on the time and or cost of doing it right.

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