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First attempt at a closed transfer
I have been wanting to do this for awhile now and I am glad I set it up. Basically I rigged a carboy cap to have a gas in line by jamming a 1/4" flare fitting in allowing a gas line hookup. The other port has a racking stuffed into it. I filled the bottom of my secondary with a blanket of CO2, then pushed the beer out of primary with 3 psi, filled the secondary in about 3 minutes all under co2 with no air exposure.
Filling a keg will be even better, same thing, but the liquid out tube will be attached to the "in" post of the keg, filling it through the dip tube bottom up into a co2 filled keg.
A quick snap of the hardware:
The setup in action transferring a belgian blond to 2ndary
nice!!
Innovation...I like it...good stuff there Thirsty...
That is a cool techinque.
I would probably keep that rig handy if I brewed as often as you do.
I tried that a few years ago and it works great.
But I found it more stuff to clean for as infrequently as I used it.
I still think I have the carboy cap with the tubing and stuff set up somewhere in my used brewing junk pile.
After I started kegging regularly, I also figured I was getting a near oxygen free set up. I purge my kegs of O2, then I rack from the carboy into the keg with a normal racking cane autpsiphon setup. The beer is under a blanket of CO2 in the carboy, and its landing in a keg of CO2. The only O2 was the what was in the racking cane...but that should rise to the top of the OC2 filled keg and away from the beer no???
Of course if you want to use a secondary then the closed carboy setup is the best way to go.
I agree. Autosiphoning straight into a CO2 filled keg after primary fermentation is my favorite transfer method. The first couple of pints may end up with a little bit of yeast sediment, but nothing worse than you'd get out of a primed bottle. And it may be all mental, but I swear I've noticed a large drop in any hints of oxidation since abandoning the secondary/clarification vessel.
For lighter beers that I do want to put into secondaryI am interested in trying out the closed keg transfer method, pushing beer in the out post in order to improve clarity and reduce overall sediment, but I'll probably wait to switch to the screw on adpaters first. Seems like it would be too much of a pain in the ass to mess with the screw clamps every time. Also seems like you would just be creating another dirty keg to clean...
If I had more kegs, I would definitely go the route of secondarying in a keg, then jumping to a serving keg. I have now 9 kegs, and can serve 4, and have room for 2 on deck to switch lines to so I can offer to serve 6. There is usually another 1-2 filled waiting for their spot. That only leaves me with 1 possibly 2, and I usually have 3-4 beers clearing at once.Because of my supply of beer, I can afford to wait for a 3-4 sometimes 6 week secondary, which I keep at 34 degress, so I am always pouring a crystal clear beer as soon as it is carbed. I am fortunate enough to have that time. Although today my maibock kicked, and I just tapped the community pale ale finally after a 3 week secondary, and probably a 2 week wait on deck pressurized in the keg. Result- crystal clear from the first glass.
I do the same thing although instead of hooking up the CO2 I just use a hepa filter that is normally used inline with an aquarium pump and blow into that after purging the carboy with CO2 from one of those hand held dispensers. I also sanitize some aluminum foil and place this around the opening of the carboy I'm transferring into. It has definitely been a huge improvement to how I used to do my transfers.
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