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For some reason, I decided to add another fun little project to my ongoing list of projects.
What if you could refill your CO2 tank at home... WITHOUT dry ice lol
I spent the last 6 hours researching it and many forums that are 10+years old and everyone "speculating" why it wouldn't work but no one actually saying they tried it and had a result other than a couple of people stating they use a water tank to do it but I don't know if that is practical.
You can buy a CO2 Generator kit from Amazon for $100 which basically is you just getting a secondary CO2 tank and then either using sugar & yeast OR baking soda & vinegar and throwing them into a CO2 thank and letting them generate the CO2 which would then compress.
Option 1 - Sugar & Yeast would die out once PSI gets to around 40ish or so, so not sure why this would be viable
Option 2 - Baking soda & Vinegar sounds like a possible method. You can throw both CO2 tanks into a freezer to allow the CO2 to compress better and under enough PSI, it can liquify at which even if you were able to get 150PSI from this while in the freezer, when you pull it out of the freezer, the gas will expend and you'd get your 700-900 PSI potentially.
Before I see someone comment this, I am going to say it now because everyone on the other forums always said it... I KNOW CO2 is cheap and I am not trying to save money, was just a thought that would allow one more brew process to be self efficient.
I don't have another CO2 tank so curious as to whether anyone has done this on BF or what your thoughts are
What if you could refill your CO2 tank at home... WITHOUT dry ice lol
I spent the last 6 hours researching it and many forums that are 10+years old and everyone "speculating" why it wouldn't work but no one actually saying they tried it and had a result other than a couple of people stating they use a water tank to do it but I don't know if that is practical.
You can buy a CO2 Generator kit from Amazon for $100 which basically is you just getting a secondary CO2 tank and then either using sugar & yeast OR baking soda & vinegar and throwing them into a CO2 thank and letting them generate the CO2 which would then compress.
Option 1 - Sugar & Yeast would die out once PSI gets to around 40ish or so, so not sure why this would be viable
Option 2 - Baking soda & Vinegar sounds like a possible method. You can throw both CO2 tanks into a freezer to allow the CO2 to compress better and under enough PSI, it can liquify at which even if you were able to get 150PSI from this while in the freezer, when you pull it out of the freezer, the gas will expend and you'd get your 700-900 PSI potentially.
Before I see someone comment this, I am going to say it now because everyone on the other forums always said it... I KNOW CO2 is cheap and I am not trying to save money, was just a thought that would allow one more brew process to be self efficient.
I don't have another CO2 tank so curious as to whether anyone has done this on BF or what your thoughts are