wide mouth glass carboy…love it 6.5 gallons and easy to clean because you can stick your whole arm in there and scrub away.
Nice. That’s some chunky yeast you’re using. WY1968?
I will be in the market for a bigger fermenter soon. But I am thinking I may just another 6 gallon carboy. I like them for the 4 gallon batches I do, plus I can start a siphon with co2 and the carboy cap. I just soak to clean, siphon liquid out. Semi- clean-in-place kinda deal. I feel it’s safer anyway, instead of lifting a full carboy and dumping the water out. Dangerous…
Are you pressurizing a glass carboy?? THAT would be dangerous.
nah, if you use a carboy cap and <3psi it’s not really a problem. I think Drew actually did a test that showed the cap would blow off before the carboy exploded… or maybe it was just discussed as an interesting idea… perhaps the mythbuster folks could explore.
its an English pale ale with wlp007…love this yeast . its very turbulent as you can see, and chews up everything within 3 days…even big beers. result is a very nice dry, clean and clear beer.
Not 3 psi, more like 10 psi, which is what my carbing/serving pressure is set to. Maybe I should lower it when starting the siphon. I just give it a quick shot until I see the beer flowing, maybe 1-2 seconds.
yeah, I would use a little pressure as possible for safeties sake. (safety third!)
I’ll add my vote for the 7.9 gallon Speidel fermenters. Pricey? Yes. Well designed, durable, easy to clean, carrying handles, spigot? Yes.
I like the idea of not needing a racking cane or pump to get beer from the fermenter to the keg, and I can clean this easily with my sump pump CIP system.
Wow, so you really think a quick shot of 10 PSI is dangerous? I guess I will lower it to start my siphon then.
I don’t know if it’s dangerous. It would seem not to be given your past experience and if I am remembering correctly it was shown that the carboy cap will just pop off before the carboy explodes but it only takes one case of me being wrong to seriously ruin your day.
Ha, it would indeed seriously ruin my day. Thanks for your concern, I guess I’ll consider dropping the PSI. I suppose I could just blow into the other tube to start the siphon, but I don’t see the reason to do that as long as I’ve got co2 as an option.
How about an auto siphon?
Eh, I like them in theory, just don’t like all the moving parts and plastic.
Like opening water valves slowly to avoid the “hammer” effect, I would go nice and slow opening your gas valves and go no higher than 3-5 psi.
Safety third, right?
Thanks for that. Albeit old comment & thread, it’s still making people laugh 