First Pressurized Lager Fermentation w/Anvil King Chubby - A Learning Experience.
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2022
- The people at Anvil generously offered to send me a King Chubby pressurized fermenter if I was willing to try it. Expanding my lager brewing season was definitely appealing so I accepted their offer. This first attempt was not perfect, but I learned some things. The second attempt, which is already in a keg, went much better. (Video to come on that as well as attempt #3).
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I have been fermenting in the serving keg, with a spunding valve and a top draw dip tube for several years now. I don't transfer, or even open the keg unless I'm dry-hopping. ferment, chill, and tap. For quick-turnover beers, it works great.
Three to five wraps of Teflon tape should work perfectly. 🍺😀👍
Beer looks great. We are dealing with low pressure so just wrap some Teflon rape around the threads (10 or so wraps) and then thread it on until it starts to get tight and make sure you stop when it faces up. Also, make sure you wrap the tape in the opposite direction (counter clockwise) that you will be tightening so that the tape does want to bunch up.
Fit the dip tube on day 1.
You sir learned the same lesson I did when I did my first pressure fermentation. You don't need to bleed the pressure as that will just mix everything up again so now you have to wait several more days for it to separate. What you should do is clean your keg and then pressurize it to be 1-2 psi less than your fermenter. Attach a transfer tube to the out on fermenter and out on keg so that you don't foam. Let it transfer until pressure is out and then add your co2 tank at 2psi and let it finish transferring.
Maybe after the pressure release you could have cold crashed the beer to knock that trüb down. Also, couldn't you have used the pressure in the fermentor push the beer into your keg? Control the transfer rate with the spunding valve on the gas in post of the receiving keg.
I'm hoping to get a deal during the holidays on a pressure capable fermenter. Thanks for the vid! Now I can hum the Don O song for the rest of the day. Cheers!
My setup: 2 kegs + spunding valve ('new gen' bowtie version = that red/white plastic integrated valve with manometer) + ball dip tube (same as yours) + transfer line with post out/post in connectors.
Hey Dono, great video. Throw that spunding valve away and pick up a blow tie spunding valve from More Beer. They are pretty reasonably priced and work great.
I bought a Spike 17 gallon conical fermenter, glycol chilling coil, and a pressure kit. I built my own glycol chiller. I love it! Best tools I bought so far. I have never brewed a lager beer yet but will soon. Thanks for the video Don! Cheers.
Thanks for sharing. I'm looking at getting into pressure fermentation and your info was great. Cheers!
Welcome to pressure fermentation family!
I use a pressure fermenter and I love it! No hassle oxygen free transfers, fill your keg with sanitizer and push it out with co2. Easy to clean compared to a 6 gallon carboy. I do a lot of ales and ferment at regular temp with 4psi. Once you get use to it you will wonder you didn't do that sooner.
Good stuff, I’ve been hearing a lot about pressurized fermentation and Kevike yeast. New tech in the field of home brewing is definitely exciting after a decade of brewing. Cheers 🍻
I have a coffee cup with a thread on lid and it usually takes me like eight tries to get the drinking hole where i want it, chaps me up a storm. So maybe teflon tape plus trial and error where you start the thread on? I know I’ve got issues, also i stopped using that cup with the lid(for beer only now). Anyhoo cheers and good luck!
Hey DonO. I just recently did my first pressure ferm. lager as well (guess we're both tinkerers). What I did was split a batch of German Pils between a Kegland OxeBar "keg" (basically a 2.2 gal. soda bottle w/ fancy fittings) w/ a spunding valve and a regular fermenter with temp control. I had a similar learning curve as you, figuring out valve, overshooting pressure etc. In my case, at 66 F or so (basement temp) the pressure batch fermed out in 3 days. (I also did sealed transfer to another OxeBar after fermentation, which was cool. A first for me too.) The other took a while. Unfortunately my side-by-side was foiled a bit as my 'traditional' batch developed the worst acetaldehyde I've ever had. Pressure batch, as far as I could tell, was clean and crisp as I would expect. Would've been nice to get a direct comparison, but that's my next plan. Thanks for the vid. Looking forward to pressure 2.0 vid.
Those connectors seal on the flared surface at the end not the threads so thread tape might give you leaks. They do make tiny plastic “gaskets” for steel to steel MFL connections, you could put one of those in to change the position of the gauge.
Although you have made some excellent beers in the past with your existing system it’s good to see you coming out of the Stone Age