DavidLenzini
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Hi all. New member, but quite a long time home brewer.
I have just upgraded to a SS Brewtech 14 gallon Unitank and am generally really happy with the flexibility this offers. However I’m quite confused with the whole CO2 set up and how to best package oxygen free (I’ve always bottle conditioned in the past).
Can anyone point me to a 101 guide for using CO2.
Better still, If anyone can help me out with something that is puzzling me? The pressure gauge on the unitank has been stuck on zero from day one. I’ve popped the cap to equalise the pressure, but it just hasn’t moved. It’s installed at the top where all instructional videos and guides suggest it should be and is securely fastened with a TC clamp and gasket (as are all other connections). No other valve has been left open including the blow off cane.
Fermentation has finished (I left the spunding valve open initially - but saw no bubbling at all so closed a few points before terminal gravity). Today I’ve connected gas up and left it pushing CO2 through the carb stone at 10psi for 5 mins or so (and could hear the beer bubbling away). However the pressure gauge never once moved.
Am I wrong to think the pressure gauge should start to move straight away, or is there just not enough pressure in the tank to affect the gauge? Surely there would have been during fermentation?
I guess it’s possible there’s a leak, but surely I’d be able to hear the gas leaking or see the beer leaking from somewhere? And wouldn’t the tank still pressurise but slowly lose pressure?
Just trying to understand if I have a faulty pressure gauge or am I just getting this all completely wrong?
I have just upgraded to a SS Brewtech 14 gallon Unitank and am generally really happy with the flexibility this offers. However I’m quite confused with the whole CO2 set up and how to best package oxygen free (I’ve always bottle conditioned in the past).
Can anyone point me to a 101 guide for using CO2.
Better still, If anyone can help me out with something that is puzzling me? The pressure gauge on the unitank has been stuck on zero from day one. I’ve popped the cap to equalise the pressure, but it just hasn’t moved. It’s installed at the top where all instructional videos and guides suggest it should be and is securely fastened with a TC clamp and gasket (as are all other connections). No other valve has been left open including the blow off cane.
Fermentation has finished (I left the spunding valve open initially - but saw no bubbling at all so closed a few points before terminal gravity). Today I’ve connected gas up and left it pushing CO2 through the carb stone at 10psi for 5 mins or so (and could hear the beer bubbling away). However the pressure gauge never once moved.
Am I wrong to think the pressure gauge should start to move straight away, or is there just not enough pressure in the tank to affect the gauge? Surely there would have been during fermentation?
I guess it’s possible there’s a leak, but surely I’d be able to hear the gas leaking or see the beer leaking from somewhere? And wouldn’t the tank still pressurise but slowly lose pressure?
Just trying to understand if I have a faulty pressure gauge or am I just getting this all completely wrong?