OK, I've been ill so maybe I'm missing something and if I am please tell me.
I recently kegged a 5 gallon batch of APA that was heavily hopped and dry hopped with pellets, then cold crashed for 3 days. The yeast I used was also not a particularly flocculent strain so the result after 2 weeks on gas in keg was that the 4 or 5 first pints were heavily dirtied with yeast & hop sediment. It made for some cloudy (although still delicious) brews. The rest of the keg served well but there was still some sediment slowly eeking it's way into each glass.
It should have cleared better after 3 days cold, but I think the yeast had a lot to do with staying in suspension and clinging to hop particulate.
Anyway, what I'm wondering is if after filling and charging your 5 gallons of beer to your desired CO2 volumes, can you invert your keg and swap the QDs on your beer/gas lines. This would make the CO2 go in the dip tube which should now be in your headspace and your beer out line would be on the short gas tube well above your sediment cake once the beer settles out after a couple weeks on gas.
Is there a reason why this would not work? I'm assuming you'd need some kind of support for the keg so you are not resting the weight of it on the QDs, but other than that I cannot think of any reason why this wouldn't work.
Tell me I'm wrong or I'm going to try this.
I recently kegged a 5 gallon batch of APA that was heavily hopped and dry hopped with pellets, then cold crashed for 3 days. The yeast I used was also not a particularly flocculent strain so the result after 2 weeks on gas in keg was that the 4 or 5 first pints were heavily dirtied with yeast & hop sediment. It made for some cloudy (although still delicious) brews. The rest of the keg served well but there was still some sediment slowly eeking it's way into each glass.
It should have cleared better after 3 days cold, but I think the yeast had a lot to do with staying in suspension and clinging to hop particulate.
Anyway, what I'm wondering is if after filling and charging your 5 gallons of beer to your desired CO2 volumes, can you invert your keg and swap the QDs on your beer/gas lines. This would make the CO2 go in the dip tube which should now be in your headspace and your beer out line would be on the short gas tube well above your sediment cake once the beer settles out after a couple weeks on gas.
Is there a reason why this would not work? I'm assuming you'd need some kind of support for the keg so you are not resting the weight of it on the QDs, but other than that I cannot think of any reason why this wouldn't work.
Tell me I'm wrong or I'm going to try this.