AZ_IPA said:You could simply saw off the entire bottom of the carboy so you would have easy access to take the cone out to clean it. Then you could put rubber gasket(s) on the sawed off glass with some latches so you could attach it back on.
RoughandReadyRanch said:Just use the damn thing already so we can see what too much time on your hands looks like! Are you going to crash this thing? I am sure experience shows that the yeast doesn't drop ( am too lazy to look it up) but if crashed I don't see how the sides of this thing will have any relevance on a yeasts ability to drop and compact in the neck and eventually clear out. You may have to run the cake off twice in order to catch any stragglers but I am just not seeing the issue here. Good luck and please get some better support on that thing. See what a carboy can do to a person working as a medic and I just see accident waiting to happen in these pics. Also a post of the valve close up would be nice.
I just don't get how anyone here is completely ignoring the fact that you're dealing with rough cut glass that you're going to be abrading with a stopper, dropping minuscule glass pieces into your beer all the time.....no thank you!
But he'll dump the glass via the conical.
Do some research...it's not because I say it doesn't work (note that I said doesn't...that means I've tried it. I'm nor guessing). Dozens, maybe hundreds, of people who have tried it say it doesn't work. If you used something other than a carboy, it might work. But the slope of the carboy shoulders isn't steep enough to drop yeast. That's not naysaying, that's not opinion, it's a fact.
If you come up with a foldable flexible cone, doable.I'm working on it. Create an artificial slope inside the fermenter. Pics to come. Not high on my to do list, so don't hold your breathe.
If you come up with a foldable flexible cone, doable.
I ran into the same problem using a plastic bottle as a grain hopper for my small mash tun, not enough slope.
Without constant vibrating the hopper, like many do with a grain mill, no go.
Solved the problem with an off the shelf aluminum funnel I modified.
Is that a mirror on the ceiling? If so, you have apparently ran out of gadgets you need, and now are adding gadgets of questionable necessity!
Yes SirIs that a mirror on the ceiling?
you have apparently ran out of gadgets you need, and now are adding gadgets of questionable necessity!
Yes Sir
The inserted funnel's slope is not ideal, occasionally some grains stay behind.
The only way to know if the hopper is empty without climbing close to 8' or installing a vibrator is the mirror.
Originally the hopper was equipped with a sensor which will be used for another grain hopper project.
Cheers,
ClaudiusB
Well, climbing up there might not be ideal, but that must be how the grains are put into the hopper in the first place.
You act like there's not a motor driven auger that transports the grains to the hopper. You know there is...
The issue is that the trub will not settle only in the neck of the carboy. Looking at a carboy and using common sense leads to that conclusion. The shoulder doesn't have enough of a slant to keep the trub from settling there. So what you'll end up with is a tiny bit of trub in the neck that can be flushed out by the valve and then about 95%+ of the trub settled on the shoulders. Even with cold crashing and draining multiple times, the bulk of it will likely stay in place with maybe just a steady bit of it streaming out with the otherwise clear beer. So to avoid the trub steadily finding its way in the cleared while draining out of the bottom(previously the top), the beer will instead have to be siphoned out of the top hole(that was drilled in what was previously the bottom). And if that's the case, then there was never a reason to go through all the trouble to cut the hole and build a stand for the now inverted carboy when, in the end, the beer will be siphoned out of the top just like using a carboy the traditional way.
While the mash paddle slap is the simple option, I do like the idea of using an adult toy in brewing....Well, climbing up there might not be ideal, but that must be how the grains are put into the hopper in the first place.Yes Sir
The inserted funnel's slope is not ideal, occasionally some grains stay behind.
The only way to know if the hopper is empty without climbing close to 8' or installing a vibrator is the mirror.
Originally the hopper was equipped with a sensor which will be used for another grain hopper project.
Cheers,
ClaudiusB
I'd say a slap or two with the ole mash paddle would do wonders to encourage the barley to step into the chute.
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BeerGrylls said:Wow, the bile. RDWHAHB brother. Do you slap your kids when they change the subject?
RoughandReadyRanch said:Common sense would lead me to the conclusion that you sir are a dick. All pleasantries aside you are likely correct and due to a large amount of drinking on a long workless Monday I seem to have missed what you have made so pleasantly obvious. I now see your point, but you're still kind of a dick.
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No SirWell, climbing up there might not be ideal, but that must be how the grains are put into the hopper in the first place.
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I remember that pic. Hilarious.
Clearly, BBs shrink when hot enough. But the whole stretch thing is the opposite of shrinkage...
Cheers!
That's why you hang a weight around the neck. Stretchy dink.
One idea I had, but it'd a long shot, is some sort of an Arm that enters into the neck of the carboy (somehow) and is angled to scrape the trub off the shoulders of the carboy could help to the end of pulling the trub out of the fermenter. I haven't figured out how I'd make that happen though....
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With a better bottle, one could hang it upside down, hang something heavy from the neck, partially fill it with really hot water, and stretch it out so the slope is far more severe. Better Bottles are shrinky dinks... heat them and stretch them any way you want. Look what my friend did to 2 of his:
Have you thought of using magic?
Yeah, or a bent piece of copper wire through a grommet. But magic is the more elegant solution, no doubt.
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