Fermenting in a Cornie...

I did my first fermentaiton in a cornie, sanitized the cornie; put the diptube cit 1/4", poppet and ball lock on the OUT side and on the in side a ball lock without a poppet; the connector on that and some hose into starsan...

48 hours later I wonder why no active fermentation and check the pressure relief and pfffffffffft.

Obviously the gas connector needs a poppet to depress the pin valve which I forgot about - how are you guys keeping that depressed? For now I just have the pressure relief in the open position. I don't want to ruin a gas connector if I dont have to, is there an easy way to press it open?

i am currently doing this as well started fermenting a week ago yesterday in the corny. all i did was sanitize the corny placed wort and yeast in connected dis-connect to the gas in with a blow off tube. purged any oxygen out by shooting some CO2 in and releasing the valve. blow of tube started burping a few minutes later.

Gumbys_Brew said:

i am currently doing this as well started fermenting a week ago yesterday in the corny. all i did was sanitize the corny placed wort and yeast in connected dis-connect to the gas in with a blow off tube. purged any oxygen out by shooting some CO2 in and releasing the valve. blow of tube started burping a few minutes later.

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you left the poppet in?

hayabusa said:

you left the poppet in?

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yeah i asked around the site a bit before i actually started fermenting and MoRoToRiUm on here posted pics and mentioned he does this all the time with no problems and so far 1 week into my fermentation i have no problems at all. seems to be working great.

i would say it is safe to put the poppet back in and i bet fermentation will go smoothly

How much wort are you guys fermenting in a corny? 4gal? 4.5gal??

Alamo_Beer said:

How much wort are you guys fermenting in a corny? 4gal? 4.5gal??

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i have about 4.3 in there and have no yeast in blow off just bubbles burping frequently

I took the post off the cornie and just installed an usual 3 piece airlock. I used 3/8" silicone tubing I had for transfering, cut off a 2" piece and it slips easily over the airlock and with a little work slips fine over the threads for the cornie post.

Gumbys_Brew said:

i would say it is safe to put the poppet back in and i bet fermentation will go smoothly

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i ended up just removing the gas connect and put tube over the post - i wasn't to worried about it since airtight isn't required, and i am sure i was protecting it from falling debris...

i will definitly use the post / tube in the future though... 4 more days to gas transfer to secondary cornie anyway. happy drinking.

I slide tubing right over the post threads and into a water jug. Works well, very simple.

hayabusa said:

i ended up just removing the gas connect and put tube over the post - i wasn't to worried about it since airtight isn't required, and i am sure i was protecting it from falling debris...

i will definitly use the post / tube in the future though... 4 more days to gas transfer to secondary cornie anyway. happy drinking.

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good to hear everythings going good

Gumbys_Brew said:

good to hear everythings going good

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Thanks - I think I will reserve the cornie fermenting to simple, small beers and Apflewein since the headspace doesn't accomodate a big krausen without losing it all thru the tube. If I do a big beer i think other vessles will be best. I love the idea of being able to transfer from keg to keg though. I need to cut some sankes to accomodate corny lids!

I have been wanting to this also just can't find a cheap sanke

hayabusa said:

Thanks - I think I will reserve the cornie fermenting to simple, small beers and Apflewein since the headspace doesn't accomodate a big krausen without losing it all thru the tube. If I do a big beer i think other vessles will be best. I love the idea of being able to transfer from keg to keg though. I need to cut some sankes to accomodate corny lids!

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Gumbys_Brew said:

I have been wanting to this also just can't find a cheap sanke

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send me a PM with your email - i might be able to help from north dallas area.

Might consider using these Welcome.