When Do You Consider Fermentation Done?

[Mase]

Blichmann Cornical

 

[thunderwagn]

Realistically with how many beers I have kegged right now I should probably start leaving them in the primary longer. I have no real need to clear them out faster other than I'm bored and need something to stick the next batch in. The question is do I spend $35 on a carboy or $50 on a corny keg? I think the long term decision is rather obvious.

I'd get kegs.
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If anyone out there is near Russian River Brewing or in the SF Bay area and can get a bottle of Pliny I'd be willing to work something out to get one! Never had it and would love ot have it for comparison.

Guess I'm a bit surprised RR doesn't get distribution in WA.

 

[Hawkbox]

I have ball lock but yeah, your point remains. 9 kegs clearly isn't enough.

 

[GFHomebrew]

I have a friend that is fermenting in the keg, but I'm not there yet.

same im looking into it just to do double batches of my fave beers that i want a lot off hangin around.

 

[Nosybear]

I mean come on what’s $15 among brewers.... now if someone could develop some kind of FV that could convert magically into a keg that’d be sweet.

They've done it. On sale at our LHBS for some insane price....

 

[Hawkbox]

Most of these thing have been invented, for 10x the price of a PET carboy though.

 

[LindyBrew]

I'd get kegs.
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Guess I'm a bit surprised RR doesn't get distribution in WA.

Yeah no dice on getting a Pliny up here! At least I've never seen one.

 

[LindyBrew]

Most of these thing have been invented, for 10x the price of a PET carboy though.

Yeah there's always tech out there to do whatever you want but man the prices are insane. If anything something that could be put into a keg like a french press filter and pushed down to seal off all of the unwanted stuff and then a shortened dip tube. I can't imagine all those parts would be more than $20 if done right. The hardest part is getting something to fit through the opening that can expand to seal the bottom of the keg. I dunno just chewing on new equipment designs.

 

[Mark Farrall]

If you're trying to avoid the trub from keg fermenting, have you looked at the float based dip tubes? Don't keg yet, so I've not tried them.

 

[GFHomebrew]

Or as I thinks been stated in the thread transfer beer to keg fin with geletin cold condition for let's say a week then pressure transfer liquid to liquid into a co2 purged keg for consumption. All your trub is sitting in the last conditioning keg.