Awhile ago, it may have been on the NB forum, someone was discussing the idea of a floating dip tube to eliminate sucking up sediment from the bottom of a keg.
Looks like one is actually being marketed now:
http://www.williamsbrewing.com/CLEAR-BEER-DRAUGHT-SYSTEM-P3612.aspx
That is pretty neat. Pricey. :-\
Cool idea, but my using my dremel to cut an inch off the bottom of the diptube was a lot cheaper.
Looks like one more thing to clean. Brew more, be patient, and your beer will be clear when you tap your kegs. Or cold crash and hit it with gelatin. Either way, much cheaper.
And more complicated to clean.
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I just use a pipe cutter to cleanly trim about a centimeter of the diptube. A lot cheaper, more simple and will work better in the long-run.
That device is pretty neat though. Just imagine: your first beer pulled will be the clearest and best beer of the keg! :o
I’ll give you that. Bonus points for a neat idea.
It might work well for someone who is moving kegs around (bringing them to meetings, etc.).
I think it’s cool that so many new products are coming onto the market, even if I don’t have a use for most of them.
I do wish someone would develop a stainless steel insulated mash tun with a couple of built in ports for bazooka screens, thermometers, etc.
Not sure it’s worth it, anyone think it’ll draw a better conditioned/carbonated brew. At the beginning this may be an issue but not after a week or two in the fridge.
I can’t imagine this think not getting tangled up.
Wonder how well this would work for fermenting in the kegs for not pulling a bunch of yeast and trub racking to serving keg.
Seems like it would be covered in krausen
the float would be but the actual pickup sits below the surface.
Good way to top crop? LOL
An interesting take on an old idea. The “RotoKeg” I purchased in 1980 did essentially the same thing in a similar but much simpler manner.
It did work pretty well, though!