Recently had some problems with carboys. Been using them for 15 years and I'm getting tired of moving them and having a difficult time with pressurized transfers. Also too busy to keep the airlocks filled and don't like suck back on blow off tubes.
I keg with pin locks and have a dozen lying around. Been researching pressurized ferments (thank you WortMonger!) and wanted to make sure my setup would work. If you have experience please weigh in. My goals are:
1. Full 5g batches in a 5g corny
2. Pressurized oxygen free transfers
3. Minimal space needs (flexible)
My plan was to use two corny kegs per batch. One would be the fermenting vessel and the other the serving vessel. The gas post of the fermenter would be connected to beer post on serving vessel. Spunding valve would be on the gas post of serving keg. Both would obviously be sanitized and sealed. This would allow plenty of space for blow off to protect the spunding valve. Assuming no blowoff, I could simply attach a jumper cable between the two kegs, set the spunding to serving volume and attach gas to fermenter to transfer.
Would this work? Is the second keg necessary? Does pressurized fermentation and Fermcap-S really prevent blowout?
I keg with pin locks and have a dozen lying around. Been researching pressurized ferments (thank you WortMonger!) and wanted to make sure my setup would work. If you have experience please weigh in. My goals are:
1. Full 5g batches in a 5g corny
2. Pressurized oxygen free transfers
3. Minimal space needs (flexible)
My plan was to use two corny kegs per batch. One would be the fermenting vessel and the other the serving vessel. The gas post of the fermenter would be connected to beer post on serving vessel. Spunding valve would be on the gas post of serving keg. Both would obviously be sanitized and sealed. This would allow plenty of space for blow off to protect the spunding valve. Assuming no blowoff, I could simply attach a jumper cable between the two kegs, set the spunding to serving volume and attach gas to fermenter to transfer.
Would this work? Is the second keg necessary? Does pressurized fermentation and Fermcap-S really prevent blowout?