Brewmegoodbeer
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Im building a conical and im thinking: is a racking arm necessary? Could you not drain the yeast and trub and then when it runs clear, drain into your bottling bucket?
Racking Arm on Conical Required?
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oldstyle69
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yes, you could. you could also just add a bottling wand to your conical and not transfer to a bucket.
On the home brew scale a racking arm is not needed. We recommend dumping the yeast (primary), then cold crashing and then racking out of the racking port. The material/liquid left behind will mostly be yeast, hops and trub. Racking arms look cool and are useful on large tanks but not needed on the home brew side (read: gimmicky).
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Speaking of conicals ; ) Any new updates, features, or pics you are willing to share? Really interested to see what you have to offer since you will be full sanitary for a reasonable price.
How about a lid teaser pic lol! Sorry guys on the delay! It's been such a huge project and we want to get it right the first time. We have a ton of modular features we want to offer down the line so this means trying to plan out 1 year in advance on top of getting the design perfect the first time!
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Hey that is at least something. I can see your argument for no racking arm. The recoverable volume it would give you with vs without is (guessing) a pint or 2 at most for a 7-14 gallon fermenter.
We've put more time into engineering the best place for the racking port so there is no need for a racking arm.
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