Fermentap for Carboy

Anyone used or seen this product before? Does it work well?

Fermentap for Carboy - eBay (item 170283908673 end time Dec-08-08 12:32:50 PST)

Also, how would you use an airlock with this? Drill the glass ?!!!

Haha that's pretty sick, I basically turns your carboy into a conical fermentation vessel. If the bid doesn't get too high I'd say give it a whirl. Otherwise, you could probably make one!

Reno_eNVy_446 said:

Haha that's pretty sick, I basically turns your carboy into a conical fermentation vessel. If the bid doesn't get too high I'd say give it a whirl. Otherwise, you could probably make one!

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Oh yeah, that...do a search on here for info on it (change the advanced search to "posts" instead of thread titles...

Evidently it suxks royally...leaky as hell.

In that case, scratch that as one to consider.
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I know the product has been discontinued, but is there something similar or how would you make the cap? Thanks

I thought that this would be a good idea, but then I compared the angle of a carboy neck with typical conicals. Considering how sticky yeast and byproduct is I can imagine the mess stuck to the neck of the carboy.

I have gone a totally different direction and am using standard Sanke kegs.

Tom

Are you inverting the Sanke?

No, just allowing the keg to pressurize from the fermentation, chilling the keg (already in the fermentation chamber) to help compact the yeast, taking the usual sg readings will clear the dip tube and create a "crater" around it. I then use the pressure (plus some stored during the ferment) to move all beer off to serving kegs at under 2 litre a minute. Finally to clean, I pump in 2 litre of sterilized water, shake and then (still under pressure) draw off about 4 litre of yeast cake to be stored and used for the next batches.

Tom

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