So SWMBO will be taking the kids and herself to the inlaws later this week and I will be joining them at the weekend so I thought it would be a good time to get a few new/different things fermenting.
I was thinking of doing a Edworts Apfelwien and this ginger beer recipe Ginger "Beer" (with wine yeast)
But I only have 1 fermenting barrel, although I have just got my cornie kegs setup but no beer to put in them yet (3 kegs, QDs, tube, cobra taps).
I have seen some people fermenting in cornies but it seems that they are removing diptubes/pressure reliefs etc. and doing full ~5 gal batchs.
What I was thinking is to leave the cornie standard and just hook up a gas disconnect with some tube going into a blowoff jar and doing 2.5-3 gal batchs. Once they have done fermenting I was going to use CO2 to transfer the cider/"beer" to another cornie for carbing with priming sugar. I would use a liquid to liqid disconnet jumper to move the "beer" between kegs but somehow "dump" the yeast cake (and wash it) that will come out first.
Ok question time:
1) Any thing that is hugely obvious that I shouldn't do?
2) Is the headspace going to be an issue (too much/too little) and should I purge the keg with co2 (before or after pouring in the "wort")
3) Is it even worth moving it to a secondary keg to get it off the yeast cake (just though it might be benificial to help get a clearer end result since I would be carbing ontop of the yeast cake)
Thanks in advance!
I was thinking of doing a Edworts Apfelwien and this ginger beer recipe Ginger "Beer" (with wine yeast)
But I only have 1 fermenting barrel, although I have just got my cornie kegs setup but no beer to put in them yet (3 kegs, QDs, tube, cobra taps).
I have seen some people fermenting in cornies but it seems that they are removing diptubes/pressure reliefs etc. and doing full ~5 gal batchs.
What I was thinking is to leave the cornie standard and just hook up a gas disconnect with some tube going into a blowoff jar and doing 2.5-3 gal batchs. Once they have done fermenting I was going to use CO2 to transfer the cider/"beer" to another cornie for carbing with priming sugar. I would use a liquid to liqid disconnet jumper to move the "beer" between kegs but somehow "dump" the yeast cake (and wash it) that will come out first.
Ok question time:
1) Any thing that is hugely obvious that I shouldn't do?
2) Is the headspace going to be an issue (too much/too little) and should I purge the keg with co2 (before or after pouring in the "wort")
3) Is it even worth moving it to a secondary keg to get it off the yeast cake (just though it might be benificial to help get a clearer end result since I would be carbing ontop of the yeast cake)
Thanks in advance!