Is anyone using a shortened dip tube in a cornie keg and a double-ended ball lock tube to cold clarify their beers?
It's my thought that leaving a cornie of most beers (not the high hops or hefe's) in my conditioning freezer untouched for a few weeks would clarify it. If the dip tube was shortened an inch, and a double ended tube connected into another cornie, I could use a screw driver to push down the gas-in poppet on the 2nd keg and push the beer over into it, leaving the bottom 1" behind, hopefully with all the settled stuff.
Anyone done this? I'd probably only do it for beers that I was going to have to drag to a party or my brother was picking up, so they could be tapped and used right away without becoming cloudy again. I might also use it for the competition beers, or for something like aging a doppelbock at 38F-45F for a while as a tertiary fermenter, then pulling out the beer to it's final keg.
Without getting too expensive I could probably only use one of the kegs at a time like this (maybe that one stray pin-lock keg I have), so it would definitely need to be done sparingly.
It's my thought that leaving a cornie of most beers (not the high hops or hefe's) in my conditioning freezer untouched for a few weeks would clarify it. If the dip tube was shortened an inch, and a double ended tube connected into another cornie, I could use a screw driver to push down the gas-in poppet on the 2nd keg and push the beer over into it, leaving the bottom 1" behind, hopefully with all the settled stuff.
Anyone done this? I'd probably only do it for beers that I was going to have to drag to a party or my brother was picking up, so they could be tapped and used right away without becoming cloudy again. I might also use it for the competition beers, or for something like aging a doppelbock at 38F-45F for a while as a tertiary fermenter, then pulling out the beer to it's final keg.
Without getting too expensive I could probably only use one of the kegs at a time like this (maybe that one stray pin-lock keg I have), so it would definitely need to be done sparingly.