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Why not collect your CO2 and use it for everything? For carbing, for dispensing, for pushing beer around, etc? I know some folks do it with Better Bottles. Why not take it a step farther and serve with it too?
Back when I was in college, we had a little device that could be used to step up pressure on pneumatic devices. It was some sort of pneumatic hand pump. I can't remember the specifics though. Anyway, I was wondering if it could be done? It'd be a way to keep yourself "off the CO2 grid" so to speak. One less trip to make in your beer brewing endeavors.
Anyway, I'm thinking to plastic bottles, upside down, connected at the bottom, and filled with water. One bottle has a blow off tube on top that runs into the sink. The other has an intake tube to accept the CO2 from your ferment. The CO2 pushes out the water and pretty soon you have 5 or six gallons of unpressurized CO2.
Now use the hand pump to squeeze that CO2 into a tank for storage.
Back when I was in college, we had a little device that could be used to step up pressure on pneumatic devices. It was some sort of pneumatic hand pump. I can't remember the specifics though. Anyway, I was wondering if it could be done? It'd be a way to keep yourself "off the CO2 grid" so to speak. One less trip to make in your beer brewing endeavors.
Anyway, I'm thinking to plastic bottles, upside down, connected at the bottom, and filled with water. One bottle has a blow off tube on top that runs into the sink. The other has an intake tube to accept the CO2 from your ferment. The CO2 pushes out the water and pretty soon you have 5 or six gallons of unpressurized CO2.
Now use the hand pump to squeeze that CO2 into a tank for storage.