Recent content by Nagorg

+1 to not worrying about it. If you do have a clarity issue later, you can always fine with gelatin.

Fair enough, but definitely on the lower end. OG:1.054 and FG:1.009 lands you just shy of 6%. Don't get me wrong, its nice to be able to enjoy 3 beers and not be trashed. That's what I mean by "more of" a session IPA. Translated; more sessionable!

So more of a "Session IPA" huh?

Yeast?

The last keg in the line is my dedicated storage keg. So it does stay in the last keg. :mug:

So I can re-use the Star-San. I typically clean and sanitize multiple kegs at a time so its actually being pushed into other clean kegs before finally finding its way back to the storage keg. Star-San can be kept and used a long time this way; why waste it?

Actually it doesn't with a normal dip-tube. This is how I (and many others) sanitize and purge our kegs. After washing the keg, I then close it up and push (with CO2) a full 5G of Star-San into it from another keg that I store the sanitizer in. I then push it out (with CO2) and back into the...

@MikeCo @mac_1103 What about during the CO2 purging process where you are pushing Star-San into an empty keg? I'd think that would have to generate a lot of Star-San foam... No?

QUESTION for the folks with these things... Do ya'll do closed transfers with these things in the keg? Any issues at all during the fill? With a standard dip-tube, the beer comes in at the bottom. But with one of these, it would be floating up as the beer level rises. Guessing this may not...

If I were to try one of these, I do think I like the Clear Beer Draught System design better than others I've seen. Theirs looks to be designed to keep the pickup tube below the surface of the beer which should avoid the chance of picking up CO2 from the headspace.

FWIW, things like this are exactly why I've resisted trying the floating dip-tubes. They sound pretty cool but I don't have any real problems with the normal dip-tubes and dont like the idea of having something else to sanitize/fiddle with on packaging day. :p

Not an exact timing but I'd say about ~20 seconds to pour a pint with my ~9.5ft line and ~11psi. I'm not needing to win a race or pouring a ton of beer, but with that pour rate it can be hard to get a good head. I do have a shelf/drip-tray under my faucets and if I set the glass on it during...

I've considered those since the idea is intriguing. But the not so great reviews and somewhat high cost tell me I'd be better off adding a secondary downstream of a higher PSI if I wanted a similar outcome. That wouldn't be as clean but would likely be less problematic and less costly.

Bubbling this thread up... lol I can attest that ~7.5ft lines using 4mm ID EVABarrier tubing at ~11PSI and 38% flows a touch slower that I'd like. I think I'll trim another foot off and see if I like 6.5ft better. I originally made ~9.5ft lines and that defiantly pours too slow at ~11PSI...

Last beer was a IIPA, a Double Two-Hearted Ale clone! Delicious...