Thought I would share my hacks to go from start of ferment through kegging without introducing any extra oxygen and minimal costs. I bought the ferment in a kettle kit for my anvil 5.5 kettle. I first started thinking about doing havks to keep oxygen out while using the spigot after fermentation was complete. I jury rigged a barb and nut attached to the grommet in the lid and using a bit of tubing and a fermentation cap I was able to get it so I could slowly feed 1 psi into the kettle while the spout was open to keep the liquid flowing without it sucking in oxygen (or starsan if the airlock was still on!). After getting that setup, I realised I could use the same lid hack to vent fermentation gas into the keg to purge it of O2 prior to transfer. Once fermentation is done I can feed the gas from the keg back into the kettle while doing a gravity transfer so I don’t even have to use bottled co2. Finally, to keep o2 introduction out of the way during dry hopping, I put my dry hops in a hop bag along with a spoon and stuck it to the inside of the lid with a magnet on the outside. When I am ready for the dry hops to go in, I will pull the magnet to let the hops drop into the beer.
