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I am now 'just' using my own co2 for cornies. First few tests.

It occurs to me me I need a transfer loop. In its simplest form this is a gas to gas hose.

But far better might be a manifold with a pressure gauge each side (in & out) and a valve in the middle?

Has seen anything similar or tried anything similar?
 
Ooo that could be a good thing to modify yeah.

I want to use both gas ports to transfer gas between cornies.

Or put another way I am using one corny as a low pressure co2 cylinder the other for beer.

I fancy a low pressure gauge on side, to be able to set dispense pressure on the corny week beer.
 
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Duotight make an inline regulator. Would that fit the bill?

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From a usage point, I see this as a topup device for cornies with primed beer and a good headspace.
Pop on, adjust, remove.

Nothing to do with force carb.
 
I have a Corny with Sugar and Champagne yeast to make backup gas using a spunding valve.. I also have a purged 2L Pet Bottle with a carbonation cap used only as a C02 flask .

All my fermentation is done in pressure fermenters sometimes using a blowoff or a spunding valve.

If i used a spundy then a closed loop transfer is easy as the fermenter is already under pressure.
If I used a blowoff I need some pressure to start the pressure transfer , which is where the 2L PET bottle comes in. I pressurise it from the Co2 corny and use it to temporarily pressureise my fermenter to allow for a closed loop transfer. Simples.

I am now wondering if I should start using the Co2 corny to push starsan out of a couple of daisychained kegs with the spundy at the end of the daisychain.. to have clean, oxygen free cornys ready to fill .

That then begs another question, why dont we capture the Co2 off of a pressure ferment to push starsan through a daisychain?
 
I am now wondering if I should start using the Co2 corny to push starsan out of a couple of daisychained kegs with the spundy at the end of the daisychain.. to have clean, oxygen free cornys ready to fill .
Is it advisable to push liquid through a spunding valve? Or am I misunderstanding the proposed setup?
 
Is it advisable to push liquid through a spunding valve? Or am I misunderstanding the proposed setup?
no your right, and its deffo an issue . Id have to monitor making sure the kegs were rejiggd to make sure the starsan mever reached the keg with the valve in..
I have loads of kegs so I envisage the daisychain to look like - keg1 co2 generator - keg 2 starsan - keg3 empty - keg4 empty with a check valve and spundy @ say 35psi . as soon as keg 2 is purged rejig the chain. or alternativle daisychain all my washed kegs
 
I have a Corny with Sugar and Champagne yeast to make backup gas using a spunding valve.. I also have a purged 2L Pet Bottle with a carbonation cap used only as a C02 flask .

Oh no you have opened Pandora's box now.

Phase two has a use the 12inch balloon gas bottles (that get thrown away) as co2 flasks.
 
no your right, and its deffo an issue . Id have to monitor making sure the kegs were rejiggd to make sure the starsan mever reached the keg with the valve in..
I have loads of kegs so I envisage the daisychain to look like - keg1 co2 generator - keg 2 starsan - keg3 empty - keg4 empty with a check valve and spundy @ say 35psi . as soon as keg 2 is purged rejig the chain. or alternativle daisychain all my washed kegs

Ahah. Yes "daisy chainingc Sorry @Larse got what you meant now.
 
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