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Morning all!
I’m thinking of making the switch from bottling to kegging, and am on the hunt for a fermenter which will allow me to transfer using CO2 straight to my keg.
My first thought was to get a BrewBucket, but as I tend to do mainly 10-15litre (2.5-4 gallon) brews, would there be any reason not to just get an extra keg and ferment in that?
I’ve already had a good read of most of the info I can find on fermenting in kegs, and I can’t find anything that looks like it would be a problem as long as I leave enough headspace to prevent the poppets getting gunked up with krausen.
With a floating dip tube I should be able to avoid most of the trub, added to which the keg would be about a third of the price of the BrewBucket, and would allow me to pressure transfer without modifying the BrewBucket lid.
...is there anything I’m missing here? It seems like a perfect solution for me, but I’m very aware that as a relative noob (30 brews and none in SS/kegs), I still at the stage of not knowing what I don’t know!
Thanks in advance for your help with this one,
Henry
I’m thinking of making the switch from bottling to kegging, and am on the hunt for a fermenter which will allow me to transfer using CO2 straight to my keg.
My first thought was to get a BrewBucket, but as I tend to do mainly 10-15litre (2.5-4 gallon) brews, would there be any reason not to just get an extra keg and ferment in that?
I’ve already had a good read of most of the info I can find on fermenting in kegs, and I can’t find anything that looks like it would be a problem as long as I leave enough headspace to prevent the poppets getting gunked up with krausen.
With a floating dip tube I should be able to avoid most of the trub, added to which the keg would be about a third of the price of the BrewBucket, and would allow me to pressure transfer without modifying the BrewBucket lid.
...is there anything I’m missing here? It seems like a perfect solution for me, but I’m very aware that as a relative noob (30 brews and none in SS/kegs), I still at the stage of not knowing what I don’t know!
Thanks in advance for your help with this one,
Henry