How I Keg Beer Using Gravity Oxygen Free | Non-Pressure LoDo | O2 Free Transfer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I demonstrate how I transfer beer from my regular plastic fermenter to a keg Oxygen Free using gravity. I also give you a list of parts you need if you want to copy my method for yourself.
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Beer Brewed: Pale Ale
3.5kg Gladfield Ale Malt
400gm Light Crystal
200gm Wheat
Boil: 25gm Chinook @ 60min
Dry Hop: 50gm Galaxy 25gm Enigma
Fermented 7 days at 18-21c in a gravity fermenter, cold crashed and served from Fermenter King Junior
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My brewing gear currently consists of:
Digiboil 35L Kettle with False Bottom
The Brew Bag 400 Micron Brewing Bag
25W External Pump + Silicon Hoses
1 x Fermenter King Chubby
2 x Fermenter King Juniors
Keg-King Spunding Valve V2
Kegland Blow Tie
2 x Plastic Gravity Fermenters
5L Glass Carbouy
Small Batch All-in-One Mini Beer Keg Kit
Inkbird ITC-308 WiFi Temperature Controller
Kegland PH Meter
Licensed Music Tracks:
Open Arms by Sean Williams
Gravity by Stanley Gurvich
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Great video. I'm proud to give you the 100th thumbs up! Been working on a hazy session ipa recipe and I want to ferment and transfer closed, just like this or maybe a loop back from the purged keg. Cheers!
That is very smart! I'm going to use this week after next. Thanks.
Awesome mate thanks for the vid
America here asking about the clear plastic keg. Where did you get that? Are they common? Nice for seeing volume remaining. Negative aspects?
Top tip.... thanks heaps
That is a curious setup ... I don’t normally feel comfortable with a small 1 inch (30mm) tube being inside of two connections, it clearly works fine; but just makes me nervous.
Ive had no problems with my setup so far. The 1 inch solid plastic tube fits very tightly into the fermenter and the silicon tubing plus it was designed to be this way for bottling wands. I could put a hose clamp on the silicon side for safety sake but its tight enough that im confident it won't come off and it has no pressure on it anyway
Filling the keg with CO2 won't reliably push out all the O2, it's more effective to fill it with water and drive it out with CO2. I will add that this is only really needed for beers with lots of hop flavour and aroma.
Instead of opening the pressure release valve have you considered not using the CO2 cylinder and instead connecting the keg's gas post to the fermenter bung hole?
I have done it that way but don't now, although you could easily do that as well. I just prefer to use the C02 tank instead as I know its 100% C02 whereas the keg may still have some residual O2 but that's also probably just me being a bit paranoid!
Great vid!! What the song at end???
It was probably a track I got off of artist.io I use their service for my business and they're tracks end up in my brewing videos as well
i was going to purge my keg then do loop i think that should work the same as the co2 in the keg is getting pushed back in to the fermenter will be my first keg. theen i am going to the pressure fermenting last time with the old fermenter
Really keen to try this method, thanks for the video! I had a quick question if thats alright...I've never transferred using a spigot, only ever a siphon, so I'm just wondering, how common is it for the spigot to clog? I'm brewing a NEIPA (hence trying to find an oxygen free transfer method) and (aside from the yeast cake and trub) there will also be 2 hop bags in still in the bucket by the time it comes to cold crash and then closed transfer....so I'm wondering if this (along with regular yeast cake/trub) ever causes an issue with this method of closed transfer.
I haven't had an issue so far, I have a sediment reducer on the inside of the spigot which works really well. The only way you'll find out yourself is to give it a go!
So the keg is purged and filled with CO2?
The thing you have to be concerned with is hot side aeration aka boiling wort, after the wort is cooled there is very little danger from oxygen to your beer, otherwise, when you aerate prior to pitching your yeast you would ruin your beer.
Clear Keg?
Yep, they're PET 19L fermenter/kegs like a unitank i geuss