Hi there. I'm setting up a very-Nano brewpub rig in southern Tasmania (100 litre brewhouse), and initially plan to carbonate in kegs. The "sit it on CO2 for a week or so, and hope you get the right volume" approach doesn't really appeal to me, and I'm wondering if the device linked here at Morebeer could be a short term solution?
The process would be as follows, presuming cleaned and sanitised 50 litre kegs:
I recognise the risk of venting CO2 creating a potentially dangerous situation, I have some mitigation steps to deal with this
Any thoughts, comments, suggestions? Bear in mind that here in Aus, and particularly in Tassie, I'm limited in what I can buy - most US stores won't send to Aus, or charge like a wounded bull to do so
Cheers,
David
The process would be as follows, presuming cleaned and sanitised 50 litre kegs:
- Two gas lines run from a manifold, one to a gas fitting, second to a liquid fitting. Second line has a rotameter in line
- Carb stone is fitted to the liquid pickup hose of the fitting. This line is cut to about 3/4 of it's length, to keep it off the settled yeast
- Remove spear from keg, set aside in a sanitary manner
- Fill keg to 49.5 litres
- Fit Morebeer adapter, attach gas to gas post
- Set gas regulator to required pressure (let's say 12psi) - this is our head pressure
- Set rotameter (we'll need to tweak this as we go), connect fitting to liquid post
- Wait for rotameter to stop doing it's thing, leave beer for two days
- Serve beer
I recognise the risk of venting CO2 creating a potentially dangerous situation, I have some mitigation steps to deal with this
Any thoughts, comments, suggestions? Bear in mind that here in Aus, and particularly in Tassie, I'm limited in what I can buy - most US stores won't send to Aus, or charge like a wounded bull to do so
Cheers,
David
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