Wait, WHAT? Is this Tinder?SWMBO likes a brand called Astro Glide. Doesn't taste too bad in my experience.
Seriously, though, look for plumbers silicone grease at any hardware store. It comes in little white plastic cups. Petroleum jelly will work, but it shortens the life of the O-ring.
Hmmm it saying it's vegetarian doesn't mean you can eat it safely. Does it even tell you the ingredients? I'm not saying it's not food safe, but manufacturers love to use "green" and healthy sounding adjectives to imply good for you qualities when the terms aren't applicable. Like non-fat for instance but the product has 10,000 calories from added sugar with no chance of any fat in the first place. As a vegetarian, I would be concerned about using something made from animals, but "vegetarian" doesn't mean no animal products. It could have eggs or dairy or honey maybe even. I'm not sure if "vegetarian" is a regulated word even in the food industry. On a lotion I wouldn't trust it to mean food safe, which may be regulated or have a standardization authority.
but I don't think there's anything in that skin moisturizer that's going to hurt anything...SWMBO likes a brand called Astro Glide. Doesn't taste too bad in my experience.
Seriously, though, look for plumbers silicone grease at any hardware store. It comes in little white plastic cups. Petroleum jelly will work, but it shortens the life of the O-ring.
I totally get this. I chose it because I only knew that "keg lube" was petroleum jelly, and this stuff turned up as a non-petroleum alternative at a market where I shop. Seems unlikely to cause harm. My thanks to @day_trippr for posting the ingredients!
For what it's worth; When I did my first closed transfers in a carboy I used one of those orange caps;
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awesome— thanks. this is very helpful. I have the orange cap, too, and I think I can cobble something together like the photo suggests. And I feel better using StarSan than some kind of grease.For what it's worth; When I did my first closed transfers in a carboy I used one of those orange caps;
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..I wanted to draw from the top down to avoid disturbing the trub so I started with the racking cane pulled up near the top and slowly lowered it as it drained.. To lubricate, I just sprayed it with Star San.. I know; Not a lubricant, but it made it slippery enough to slide down easily without losing gas.
Oh; The above pic is from brewhardware: https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/ptrcarboypremium.htm
(it's a lot neater than the cobbled together version I had
Thanks for mentioning that! Star Sans' reactivity to silicone and plastics other than PET or HDPE is too often overlooked and you just shone a light on something that was nagging the back of my brain in another thread.
Interesting. My latest batch went through a full and healthy fermentation without the airlock ever bubbling. I was using the orange carboy cap and 3-piece airlock, with the other port capped off. I concluded that there must be a leak with the cap somehow (maybe just slippery from the Star San?) and I didn't sweat it because I knew that fermentation would give me a nice CO2 blanket. But now I am racking out of that vessel to lager in a different vessel that is (hopefully) more airtight. Makes me want to do the bubble test, like we do with our gas grill tanks and connections, to check for leaks on all of these things.
Kentucky Fried Chicken works also.
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