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I may be wrong, but the air should displace itself through the fermenter since it is a straight line up. I was going to use my CO2 to fill the container and displace CO2 into the fermenter rather than air (with all its nasties). The extra pressure will escape through the top of the fermenter. I...

Thanks for the reply. I need to keep this "closed" I want to open the ball valve when I fill the fermenter, and let the trub/sediment settle directly into the container. That's where I am stuck. Devising some type of closed, reliable setup. I want to keep the size to about a quart to reduce waste.

I recently bought a Minibrew 15 gallon conical. I have my first batch fermenting now. I have already dumped some trub but was thinking that it would be more efficient, (and less wasteful) if I could fashion some kind of catch device that attaches to the 1" ball valve and let the sediment trub...