Spike fermenters.

[awoitte]

I think your overthinking this. If you seal the fermentor at room temperature then cold crash to freezing a negative pressure will build and possibly damage your vessel. This can be avoided by connecting a co2 tank at .0001psi or more while cold crashing or just charging to 10ish psi prior to cold crashing. Cheers

Thanks, and you're right, the answer was pretty simple/clear. I think my brain has gotten a little overwhelmed while reading the other 29 page Spike thread over the last 3 days =)

 

[NewJersey]

I JUST bought flex + a few minutes ago.
Glad I wandered over here and opened this bad boy up.
Thanks, guys

 

[awoitte]

Brewers hardware yeast harvester helps out with both trub dump and yeast harvest immensely.

Without the harvest, I did lose more beer than I should have. With the harvester, on the first attempt it worked great.

For someone who's just looking into harvesting yeast, is the top or the bottom the good stuff?