fredtheseal
Well-Known Member
Ok, first some background information...
I brewed 10 gallons of Pumpkin Ale 4 weeks ago. I fermented this 10 gallon batch in an unmodified sanke keg with the spear replaced by a stopper and blowoff tube. The beer is done fermenting and had a chance to sit and "clean up" for a few weeks. To get the wort into the sanke keg, I ended up doing 2 5 gallon batches, putting the sanke into the fermentation chamber (chest freezer) and then pouring each batch into the keg using a funnel. I know my auto-siphon will reach the bottom of the sanke for racking into kegs.
My question: For those of you who do 10 gallon + batches, how do you get your fermentors into position for racking into a keg or bottling bucket? It needs to be at an elevated position and the only way I see is getting a buddy to help me lift it out of the freezer and setting it on a counter or other platform. Is this just how everybody else does it? I'd imagine anything bigger than 10-15 gallons would require using a pump to transfer into the fermentor and fermenting in an elevated position from the start.
I brewed 10 gallons of Pumpkin Ale 4 weeks ago. I fermented this 10 gallon batch in an unmodified sanke keg with the spear replaced by a stopper and blowoff tube. The beer is done fermenting and had a chance to sit and "clean up" for a few weeks. To get the wort into the sanke keg, I ended up doing 2 5 gallon batches, putting the sanke into the fermentation chamber (chest freezer) and then pouring each batch into the keg using a funnel. I know my auto-siphon will reach the bottom of the sanke for racking into kegs.
My question: For those of you who do 10 gallon + batches, how do you get your fermentors into position for racking into a keg or bottling bucket? It needs to be at an elevated position and the only way I see is getting a buddy to help me lift it out of the freezer and setting it on a counter or other platform. Is this just how everybody else does it? I'd imagine anything bigger than 10-15 gallons would require using a pump to transfer into the fermentor and fermenting in an elevated position from the start.