Need something to seal the hole for airlock in bucketfermentor

[h22lude]

I don't think that he is doing it under pressure. I think he's just opening the valve on the fermenter from an elevated position above the keg and the goodness flows down to the keg, meanwhile the co2 in the keg is being displaced by this goodness and pushed back up into the bucket.

Hmmm interesting. So he fills an empty keg with co2 and I assume the beer coming out of the bucket through the spigot goes into the dip tube (which is beer out) and the co2 being pushed up from the beer filling in the keg goes out the gas in post into the airlock.

 

[JohnMeeley]

Simple two piece airlock, bubble style is a two way. Fill with vodka.

 

[Hoppity]

Get 2 same size stoppers, one has hole that fits airlock, the other is solid. Increase bucket lid hole size to fit both. Change to latter when cold crashing. Or just change to two gamma lids, one drilled one not. Voila.

You can get 7 gal buckets w/same circumference as Homer 5gal. Add spigot and Gamma Lids and you're home free.

 

[sloanfamilydsm]

Anybody said to put a cork in it yet?

 

[Hoppity]

Anybody said to put a cork in it yet?

The thread or the lid?

 

[thekraken]

Hmmm interesting. So he fills an empty keg with co2 and I assume the beer coming out of the bucket through the spigot goes into the dip tube (which is beer out) and the co2 being pushed up from the beer filling in the keg goes out the gas in post into the airlock.

Yep, you got it. To fill the keg with co2 I would first fill the keg all the way with sanitizer and push that out with co2, rather than try and purge an dry keg that's full of air.

We probably should put a stop to this tangent. Go ahead and do a search for closed loop transfer or start a new thread if you have more questions.