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Seems to be a lot of posts on this subject.
Thought I'd share my story.
First batch with the new Spidel fermenter. I bought the ball valve for the bottom and the thermowell with blowoff tube for the top. Also got 2 mason jars to deal with the counterpressure from the cold crash.
With a keg completely full of starsan, I purged 2 kegs (10 gallon batch) by pushing CO2 through the beer line. Rather than messing with the pressure valve on the keg, I put on a gas ball lock with an open end into a bucket of starsan.
I clamped the silicone tubing from the blowoff, gave the gas line a puff to clear it, and attached with an adapter to connect the gas line to the 1/2" silicone blowoff tubing.
With CO2 at 2 pounds, I filled the kegs from the ball valve.
So the end result is 2 beautiful oxygen free kegs of beer and 1 keg full of starsan.
While basking in my utter genius, I put one keg in the keezer to carb up.
2 days later I pulled a pint to see how it was going. Hmmm... What is this clear liquid?
I mixed up the 3 kegs and put the starsan keg in the keezer pressurizing at 22 lbs. for 2 days. I've made some bonehead moves in my day but this one tops them all.
Fortunately, no beer was harmed in this stupidity......
Thought I'd share my story.
First batch with the new Spidel fermenter. I bought the ball valve for the bottom and the thermowell with blowoff tube for the top. Also got 2 mason jars to deal with the counterpressure from the cold crash.
With a keg completely full of starsan, I purged 2 kegs (10 gallon batch) by pushing CO2 through the beer line. Rather than messing with the pressure valve on the keg, I put on a gas ball lock with an open end into a bucket of starsan.
I clamped the silicone tubing from the blowoff, gave the gas line a puff to clear it, and attached with an adapter to connect the gas line to the 1/2" silicone blowoff tubing.
With CO2 at 2 pounds, I filled the kegs from the ball valve.
So the end result is 2 beautiful oxygen free kegs of beer and 1 keg full of starsan.
While basking in my utter genius, I put one keg in the keezer to carb up.
2 days later I pulled a pint to see how it was going. Hmmm... What is this clear liquid?
I mixed up the 3 kegs and put the starsan keg in the keezer pressurizing at 22 lbs. for 2 days. I've made some bonehead moves in my day but this one tops them all.
Fortunately, no beer was harmed in this stupidity......
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