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wot do you need to use beer kegs as fermentation buckets???
wot do you need to use beer kegs as fermentation buckets?????
Wort and yeast. An airlock might help too.
Release the pressure from the keg, pull out the snap ring and remove the spear. Then just use a big drilled rubber stopper and a hose that fits in the drilled hole as an airlock/blow off tube.
How hard do you think it would be to install a dump valve and invert the keg to use as a conical? A tri-clamp would fit the opening (like what 1n1m3g uses), then the bottom could be cut out, becoming the top of the fermenter. I realize the angle isnt that steep, I wonder how yeast and trub would collect for dumping?
Thirsty, I've seen something similar. There's a couple guys on Homebrewtalk that welded SS funnels with dump valves to the kegs and I guess it worked out pretty well. Without having the conical part I'm not sure how well it would work. I thought I remembered reading somewhere that the degree of the slope of the conical is pretty important.
thirsty wrote:
How hard do you think it would be to install a dump valve and invert the keg to use as a conical? A tri-clamp would fit the opening (like what 1n1m3g uses), then the bottom could be cut out, becoming the top of the fermenter. I realize the angle isnt that steep, I wonder how yeast and trub would collect for dumping?
I have been considering exactly this for a mashtun design. It would be a little easier because I don't need to seal the top for fermenting. Just a big cut out for adding grain and water. I'd use a false bottom to suspend the grain bed over the opening. I just think that this configuration would yeild superior draining.
I think the same thing would probably work well for fermenting too.
Because of the sides not being as steep as a traditional conical, I would bet that you wouldn't be able to drop all the trub, but you could probably get 80% to come out. It might require that you increase the batch size a little bit just to be able to flow a little extra beer out with the trub.
I googled using korney kegs for fermemtors and found some pretty good posts on other message boards.
SOme say they just remove the pullring pressure valve and use tubing into a growler of water during fermentation. Some cut off some of the outlet tube to keep the trub from being syphoned out when serving. Others have drilled hole in the removable top for a stoper and airlock to fit and use that and have a second top to use when fermentation is over and want to use it for pressuring and serving.
I really like the idea of using a korney as fermentor as I want to get an extra korney or two for the few times a year I could have a few different brews kegged for family gatherings. Meantime I can use them as fermentors. Cost wise they are close to the same as buying carboys. Excellent idea. AND I can then free up a couple of theglass carboys for making more wine.
google it and you'l lfind lots of info.
DC
deafcone wrote:
I googled using korney kegs for fermemtors and found some pretty good posts on other message boards.
I have been meaning to order a couple of these http://www.midwestsupplies.com/products … rodID=8286 They dont hold pressure, but for a fermenter who cares. If you could snap on an extra lid, you could use the post holes as blowoff tubes. I am sure 3/8" hose will snap right on the post threads. $5 for a fermenter, kind of worth the effort seeing the inside is all stainless. Plus built in handles!
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