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Been thinking of trying my hand at some low abv lagers in the 1.5%-2% range. I’m wanting something light, beerish, & semi hydrating for after my runs. You know something that I can have a few pints of without getting tipsy. Most low or no abv beers kinda suck or the good stuff is usually...

My first attempt when I ran into foam issues I had about 3 feet of hose on the intake and discharge side with one cane in the fermenter, and the other in the purge keg. The fermenter was about 2 1/2 feet above the top of the keg. The pump elevation was about even the bottom of the fermenter...

Just wanted to follow up on this. I transferred 10 gallons basically under the same temp, setup, conditions, & etc with the only difference this time was I increased the elevation of the pump in relation to the intake side / fermenter and I had no foam issues.

I was reading through some stuff on the Briess site and read a little bit about cold extraction. Looks interesting and thought it might be a cool project for a super low abv beer. Anyone tried this? If so, I would be interested to know what you did, how you did it, and what you thought about it.

Starting thinking about this again because I’ve got some beer to keg next weekend and although I plan to maybe try O2 transfer in the future I’m going with what I got / know for now. So now to the questions. 1. My initial concern with the foam was O2 but if the inlet hose is fully submerged...

I brewed today and yes I used the pvc pipe for water. It took some reading with my laser thermometer and around 4 pm it was 98f and Sunny I got 125 on the roof and the pipe was 110-120 after setting long periods without water flow. With flow it basically read the ground water temp of 78f.

If it matters the pipe is about 75 degrees when in use because of the ground water temp. I’m thinking at 90psi if anything is in there from sitting hot during the week after a few minutes of the valve cracked it ain’t in there anymore.

Under metal roof it is out of the sun. I do know it gets hot up there though.

When you’re transferring your beer or siphoning what are you using or what are your draft lines made of? I think most of that stuff falls into the same boat as pvc like even when your order the stuff from a hombrew supplier you will see Prop 65.

Yeah I’m switching to only glass pipe 😂. It seems everything comes with health risk & reason to worry. Nothing is safe. Don’t know why I even care, I’m probably already completely contaminated from all the garden hose water I drank from the leaded brass fittings as a kid. In the summer we...

Been thinking about this and started thinking I don’t think this this is an issue until temps get much higher than what I’m probably dealing with. My reasoning is large amounts of pvc sch40 are used in hot climates everywhere in the south and no one including the supplier is storing this stuff...

Yep pvc has been installed and in use for several months. I think flushing it before use & running the water through a RV charcoal filter will probably take care of it but I might be wrong so just seeing what y’all thought.

Thanks, we are probably all doomed as common as pvc is. My normal practice has been to run a few gallons through it to flush it then I attach my RV filter before any brewing water is collected.

Yeah it is regular old pvc sch40 like for drinking water I got from the big box hardware store. I think it max temp rating is like 130 or something. I have about concerns of pvc leaching of chems at high temps. I’m sure the pipe gets very warm up there but I’m thinking flushing should get ant...

Last winter I decided to run a water line on the other side of my shop using pvc. I use this supply for brewing water supply also. The clearest path was to run it over head a few inches of the tin roof. The tin / corrugated is my point of concern because it gets hot in summer in the south...

Bobby_M I think you’re probably right about the hazy IPA style being the canary. I like an hazy IPA once in a while but don’t care to brew one. Early on in my brewing adventures I remember when almost everyone was also secondary fermenting in glass carboys. That was one practice I’m happy I...

I BIAB 10 gallon finished product, 60 minute mash, 60 minute boil, & probably 60 minute chill with my immersion & aquarium pump. From start to finish including cleaning probably 6 hours. I know I could shorten mash time & boil times but the time between makes it not so rushed. I do crush the...

Thanks very clever! Man I first started brewing and transferring to kegs in the early 2000s and was just taught to gravity transfer with a siphon setup and push a little Co2 in before during and after as the keg liquid level comes up the purge it a few times through the prv. I think I learned...

Bobby_M so you’re saying push it in through the outlet post correct? This was my first time not using a gravity transfer with a siphon. I just hooked a hose & cane to both sides of the pump with suction side in the fermenter and discharge in the keg. The fermenter cane had a tip on it.

Yeah this beer was around 68f and the ambient in the shop was around 95f. I wonder if the temp differential played a part. Do you think this foam is something to worry about?