Filling a sankey and carboy size.

[MrFancyPlants]

I have a 13.5 sankey keg that I was going to fill with my hazy kveik ESB, but I am questioning whether I will have enough to reduce the headspace. I thought these were 5 or 5.5 gallon carboys, but now I am not so sure. My last batch with two of these produced about 7 G of beer. I did fill these up a little more than the last batch when I added some and dry hopped a little less than a pound of wai-iti

I have been tempted to try a pressure transfer, in which case I wouldn’t be so pressured (no pun intended) to fill the thing.. but I have always used an auto-siphon for better or worse.

Another option would be to put on of these carboys in a 5G keg and brew one more on the dregs and top off the sankey from the ball-lock keg, if I don’t drink it all waiting for the last one.

I had been looking forward to filling the sankey so that I would definitely have some around to condition over time. I plan on oxy cleaning well to get the orval bret out of the sankey for this batch. I like bret and all but just want to see how this kveik cleans up over time.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

I just realized there were gallon markings on the middle carboy, putting me at just over 4 Gallons excluding the trub. That makes a little more sense that I wasn’t getting 5 Gallons out of my batches. It looks like the other two are at least roughly the same size.

I do have about 2 Gallon of the same grain/yeast in a small ball-lock still, so I’ll go back to the tried and true transfer method this time, and top of the big keg with the little keg.

I may spring for a 15G torpedo keg for fermenting in so I can do pressure transfers. Anyone solera in one regularly? If time on trub isn’t a huge issue, could I transfer out 5 to a corny and put in 5 fresh wart by pouring it in the top?

 

[MrFancyPlants]

I know there are a lot of threads on pressure transfers, but I’m hoping this could be my last batch with an auto siphon:

I’m thinking through this, and It makes more sense to keep the larger keg for secondary or brighting solera, so I don’t have to clean out the trub periodically.

primary 4G in a 5G corny, dry-hop and spund through the serving keg to purge

Pressure Transfer from solera secondary to serving.

Pressure transfer from primary to solera secondary.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

Loving the rocky head on this house beer