Virginia_Ranger
Well-Known Member
Need y'all to reaffirm or poke holes in this for me.....
I ferment in corny kegs and have been thinking about ways to save on some CO2. I'm not looking to replace my tanks or anything but since so much CO2 is produced during fermentation I was thinking why not capture and use it for stuff like transfers and purging. What I am wondering is given enough head space so I don't have blow back, can I create a gas to gas jumper and have the CO2 from the fermenting keg transfer into the a clean sanitized keg?
Initial thoughts on problems to over come:
1. Getting pure CO2 not an O2, DMS, CO2 mix. Possibly over come this one by spunding the first 24 hours of fermentation to purge a bit and then add the jumper (not a scientist)?
2. Making the CO2 go into the keg you want it to (the empty one). I am looking at building a blowtie spunding valve and and essentially would put a ballock on the end of the blow off going into the keg I want to have capture the CO2. This would do two things 1) make sure the PSI is under control and 2) from what I can tell is the blowtie is directional so it would make sure the gas flow is going the right direction.
Please tear this apart or offer solutions. I have time to experiment with this these days .
I ferment in corny kegs and have been thinking about ways to save on some CO2. I'm not looking to replace my tanks or anything but since so much CO2 is produced during fermentation I was thinking why not capture and use it for stuff like transfers and purging. What I am wondering is given enough head space so I don't have blow back, can I create a gas to gas jumper and have the CO2 from the fermenting keg transfer into the a clean sanitized keg?
Initial thoughts on problems to over come:
1. Getting pure CO2 not an O2, DMS, CO2 mix. Possibly over come this one by spunding the first 24 hours of fermentation to purge a bit and then add the jumper (not a scientist)?
2. Making the CO2 go into the keg you want it to (the empty one). I am looking at building a blowtie spunding valve and and essentially would put a ballock on the end of the blow off going into the keg I want to have capture the CO2. This would do two things 1) make sure the PSI is under control and 2) from what I can tell is the blowtie is directional so it would make sure the gas flow is going the right direction.
Please tear this apart or offer solutions. I have time to experiment with this these days .