Closed transfer with floating dip tube?

[kitr]

Has anyone considered using a carbonation lid with the clear beer attached to the lid's post? You could fill using the standard dip tube and even have a screen on the clear beer attachment?

 

[marc1]

Has anyone considered using a carbonation lid with the clear beer attached to the lid's post? You could fill using the standard dip tube and even have a screen on the clear beer attachment?

I use a CBDS on the fermenter and serving keg and see no benefit from an additional dip tube. My serving kegs are purged with fermentation gas and I closed transfer into them.

I don't really even understand the issue trying to be addressed with it. If your receiving keg has lots of O2 in it, that's your problem, not the perceived turbulence (?) created by the CBDS. I don't get how a slow fill through a CBDS is somehow worse than a dip tube.

Maybe people don't understand how the CBDS works?

 

[kitr]

My thought process was being able to fill the keg via the liquid dip tube straight from the Fermentor and then serve out of the other one with the screen...... I like the idea of the screen but ive heard you cant fill via the screen on the clear beer attachment?

 

[marc1]

My thought process was being able to fill the keg via the liquid dip tube straight from the Fermentor and then serve out of the other one with the screen...... I like the idea of the screen but ive heard you cant fill via the screen on the clear beer attachment?

Works fine for me with the screen on both.

If something gets through the screen on the fermenter it's too small to clog the screen on the keg.

I could see the fermenter one maybe having problems in some cases, especially if you don't cold crash. I usually see some yeast sludge on the fermenter screen, but it has never stopped a transfer.

 

[cheesebach]

Works fine for me with the screen on both.

If something gets through the screen on the fermenter it's too small to clog the screen on the keg.

I could see the fermenter one maybe having problems in some cases, especially if you don't cold crash. I usually see some yeast sludge on the fermenter screen, but it has never stopped a transfer.

That's good to know - so in your fermenter you're using the add-on stainless screen that CBDS sells? And have you tried this with an IPA with a good amount of dry hops (after cold crash)? Or do you not dry-hop in the primary? Do you typically do a closed transfer using gravity, or do you push the beer out using CO2?

 

[marc1]

That's good to know - so in your fermenter you're using the add-on stainless screen that CBDS sells? And have you tried this with an IPA with a good amount of dry hops (after cold crash)? Or do you not dry-hop in the primary? Do you typically do a closed transfer using gravity, or do you push the beer out using CO2?

Yes it's the add on screen.
I've used it with heavily dry hopped ipas. I always cold crash before transfer. I use low pressure CO2 to transfer, although it works out that the keg is slightly below the fermenter. This way I don't move a heavy full fermenter, which is also good for keeping the settled stuff at the bottom.