i overestimated how easy it would be to get a hold of a small brite (2-3bbl size) so we are stuck carbing in kegs until we can get one ordered or find one used. ugh.
we have some plastic poly tanks, with glycol lines inside, so we can do a decent crash in the fermenter. racking arm should let us pull clear beer off fairly easily, but since we cant pressurize the tanks to push, its just gravity feed down into the kegs.
my preferred method would be to purge kegs, chill them to reduce foaming (no head pressure), and fill by weight until we get the 50L in the keg with a bit of headspace. then toss them in the cooler to carb for a few days. no co2 meter, so just relying on our gauges (calibrated as much as possible) and physics.
any tips on the carbonating in the keg? things we might have missed?
leave lots of headspace? as little headspace as possible? 3 days enough? 5 days? fill by weight or until foam shoots out?
we have some plastic poly tanks, with glycol lines inside, so we can do a decent crash in the fermenter. racking arm should let us pull clear beer off fairly easily, but since we cant pressurize the tanks to push, its just gravity feed down into the kegs.
my preferred method would be to purge kegs, chill them to reduce foaming (no head pressure), and fill by weight until we get the 50L in the keg with a bit of headspace. then toss them in the cooler to carb for a few days. no co2 meter, so just relying on our gauges (calibrated as much as possible) and physics.
any tips on the carbonating in the keg? things we might have missed?
leave lots of headspace? as little headspace as possible? 3 days enough? 5 days? fill by weight or until foam shoots out?
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