First closed transfer observation

[North Raleigh Brewer]

OK after about 8 years of brewing I decided to try transferring my beer to my kegs closed. I didn’t think it would make much of a difference but I figured I’d give it a try. My usual (and now old) technique is to attach a beer transfer tube to my speidel spigots and just open the spigot until my kegs are filled. I just bought a speidel gas post adapter (very cool product) that connects to the tops of the speidels where the air locks go. I connected a liquid in ball lock disconnect to my transferring tube and hooked it up the the liquid in posts. Then I used about a few psi’s to push the beer into the kegs closed after purging them. Pretty standard technique I think.

I brewed 4 kegs (in a 30 gallon kettle) with identical recipes except I used different hops for dry hopping during fermentation in the speidels and then again for my keg dry hopping. At the last moment when transferring I decided to transfer two kegs open (my old way described above) and two closed (also described above). I decided to do this to compare the open versus closed technique even though with the different hops in all 4 kegs it wouldn’t really qualify as any type of experiment but rather just an observation. Here’s what they look like after about two weeks in my kegerators. One picture is from my upstairs kegerator and the other is from my basement kegerator. In both pics the open transfer beer is on the left and closed is on the right. It appears I had more of an oxidation issue than I thought based on appearance. They all taste great though. Has anyone else that has transferred open and closed observed this much variation?

 

[day_trippr]

And there it is, in all it's graphic, horrible glory

Thanks for posting this. I have a feeling non-believers will be pointed to this thread in the future...

Cheers!

 

[shoengine]

And there it is, in all it's graphic, horrible glory

Thanks for posting this. I have a feeling non-believers will be pointed to this thread in the future...

Cheers!

Loddites?

I'm about to do my first closed transfer but I don't often rebrew so I won't be noticing any difference I'm sure.

 

[Blazinlow86]

Loddites?

I'm about to do my first closed transfer but I don't often rebrew so I won't be noticing any difference I'm sure.

I'd imagine you'd notice that your beer keeps ALOT longer. If you're only making say 5 gallons and or don't have several taps going it may not last long enough to see the difference though. Cheers

 

[shoengine]

I bottle nearly every batch. I'll make a hefe later this year. That'll be a litmus test.

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

2 weeks isnt going to change a beer that much unless something else is up. The one on the right is clearly more hazy...

Do another test.

Fill both glasses and let them both sit for 2 days without touching them...betcha the one on the right starts to settle and the top half looks looks like the left one...stuff floating in beer changing the look doesn't mean Oxidation...it means theres stuff floating in your beer changing the look

You said they both taste good...so they're ya go