Summa_Brewologica
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Anyone else use this thing with success? I have a ball lock gas fitting on my brew bucket lid and set the blowtie to 2 psi. This should have been the first red flag because when I pressurized the brew bucket to 2 psi using the co2 tank and regulator, I switched to the blowtie and it didn’t even read. So I moved to a keg and pressurized to like 5 psi, attached the blowtie and adjusted to 2. Seemed to work.
I started a ferment in the brew bucket and used a blowoff tube for the first 3 or 4 days. Until the airlock activity slowed down. Then I attached the blowtie. Held steady at 2 psi for the last 3 or 4 days. Then today I see the needle drop. So I tighten it up a bit. Come back and check it and it went back up. This afternoon I go and check and the needle dropped to zero. So I turn it until I hear air release and back it off again. Check it again this evening and it’s at about 1.5 psi. Spray it down with star San. No leaks that I can see. The lid on the brew bucket is bulged so I can tell it’s holding pressure. Turn the dial just a hair and it immediately jumps a back up to 2.
So does this thing suck? Or could it be that the beer is about done fermenting so when the ferment chamber drops the temp, there isn’t as much thermal activity from the yeast to keep the temp up so it drops more than it did before and the pressure is reacting accordingly?
Anyone else have thoughts?
I started a ferment in the brew bucket and used a blowoff tube for the first 3 or 4 days. Until the airlock activity slowed down. Then I attached the blowtie. Held steady at 2 psi for the last 3 or 4 days. Then today I see the needle drop. So I tighten it up a bit. Come back and check it and it went back up. This afternoon I go and check and the needle dropped to zero. So I turn it until I hear air release and back it off again. Check it again this evening and it’s at about 1.5 psi. Spray it down with star San. No leaks that I can see. The lid on the brew bucket is bulged so I can tell it’s holding pressure. Turn the dial just a hair and it immediately jumps a back up to 2.
So does this thing suck? Or could it be that the beer is about done fermenting so when the ferment chamber drops the temp, there isn’t as much thermal activity from the yeast to keep the temp up so it drops more than it did before and the pressure is reacting accordingly?
Anyone else have thoughts?