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LeeH

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Santa (awesome wife) bought me one for xmas.

Accidentally had it up to 30 psi and spring a leak from the bottle caps on the collection jar...so major issues.

What psi have people bring fermenting at?

Have you been aiming for fully carbonated beer or keeping it low and carbing up as normal?

What are the caps on the collection jar for?

Seems a waste of CO2 also, I meet purge the keg next time.


 
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Nobody?

Made my first transfer today, I think my floating tube is a bit long as it kept getting snagged up on the side sucking gas into the keg.
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LeeH said:
Accidentally had it up to 30 psi and spring a leak from the bottle caps on the collection jar...so major issues.

What psi have people bring fermenting at?

Have you been aiming for fully carbonated beer or keeping it low and carbing up as normal?

What are the caps on the collection jar for?

Seems a waste of CO2 also, I meet purge the keg next time.
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I ferment between 5 and 15 PSI. I do have the glycol coil and heater film to control temperatures.

At 15 PSI I fast ferment warm "lagers" in less than a week. 5 PSI is for American IPA and English beers.

Towards the end of fermentation I raise the pressure on the spunding valve to 15 PSI to naturally carbonate.

The higher pressure will reduce the esters.

The caps on the collection container can be replaced with carbonation caps. That way you can close off the collection container and bleed pressure off with a short length of hose attached to a liquid disconnect and faucet. Then you can safely remove the collection container.

I fill a keg with StarSan solution and transfer it to another keg and make sure the first keg is filled to 15PSI of CO@. I then connect a liquid to liquid short hose between the Fermzilla and keg. I connect the CO@ to the Fermzilla and a spunding valve to the gas on the keg. I slowly bleed off the CO2 from the keg to transfer the beer from the Fermzilla.
This will insure a low to no O2 level in the keg and no foaming when filling.
 

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