Hey All,
I'm piecing together all the parts and accessories for our cellar and I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to spend $300-$400 a piece on sanitary pressure guages. The gauges will be mounted to a tee on the vent arm of our tanks. At the previous brewery I worked in we didn't use pressure gauges on our FV's, just 15PSI relief valves. We only used pressure gauges on our brites and they we're the standard threaded variety. I'd like to use pressure gauges on all of our tanks at my new brewery and could see standard gauges getting gummed up/destroyed and more importantly harboring bacteria on our FV's. The brite's I'm not worried about as they should never have krausen blowing out the vent arm. Are sanitary gauges a must when applied to the vent arm of an FV and if so does anyone have experience with the GW Kent sanitary gauges? They're about a third of the price but I've had some bad experiences with cheap GW Kent stuff.
I'm piecing together all the parts and accessories for our cellar and I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to spend $300-$400 a piece on sanitary pressure guages. The gauges will be mounted to a tee on the vent arm of our tanks. At the previous brewery I worked in we didn't use pressure gauges on our FV's, just 15PSI relief valves. We only used pressure gauges on our brites and they we're the standard threaded variety. I'd like to use pressure gauges on all of our tanks at my new brewery and could see standard gauges getting gummed up/destroyed and more importantly harboring bacteria on our FV's. The brite's I'm not worried about as they should never have krausen blowing out the vent arm. Are sanitary gauges a must when applied to the vent arm of an FV and if so does anyone have experience with the GW Kent sanitary gauges? They're about a third of the price but I've had some bad experiences with cheap GW Kent stuff.
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