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Can anyone help me figure out what's going on with our CO2 transfer?
We've recently starting fermenting our hoppy beers in our sanke kegs and trying to CO2 transfer like a commercial brewer would, so that we avoid oxygen pickup.
Needless to say we haven't had any success.
Here's what we're doing:
Attach hose on coupler to CO2 tank
Attach beer out line of coupler to hose running to other coupler with check valve removed (beer "in" port).
engage couplers, turn on CO2
Nothing happens
Now, before I hook the hose up to the other coupler on the receiving keg, I will purge off some yeast from the bottom of the fermenter keg. When I do, there are no problems. It flows straight out into the bucket I collect the yeast in.
but when I attach that hose to the coupler, nothing happens.
This has happened a couple times now, and we've given up and decided to rack over manually with the plastic cane, and just deal with the oxygen pickup.
I've attached pics so maybe someone can point out what I'm doing wrong?
(couplers unengaged here in the pics)
Is this just something dumb I'm missing?
We've recently starting fermenting our hoppy beers in our sanke kegs and trying to CO2 transfer like a commercial brewer would, so that we avoid oxygen pickup.
Needless to say we haven't had any success.
Here's what we're doing:
Attach hose on coupler to CO2 tank
Attach beer out line of coupler to hose running to other coupler with check valve removed (beer "in" port).
engage couplers, turn on CO2
Nothing happens
Now, before I hook the hose up to the other coupler on the receiving keg, I will purge off some yeast from the bottom of the fermenter keg. When I do, there are no problems. It flows straight out into the bucket I collect the yeast in.
but when I attach that hose to the coupler, nothing happens.
This has happened a couple times now, and we've given up and decided to rack over manually with the plastic cane, and just deal with the oxygen pickup.
I've attached pics so maybe someone can point out what I'm doing wrong?
(couplers unengaged here in the pics)
Is this just something dumb I'm missing?