kombat
Well-Known Member
I'd like to try lagering in corny kegs, since they take up considerably less footprint in my freezer. However, one problem to be addressed is how to siphon the beer out of the keg when ready to carbonate.
Yes, I know I could just carbonate in the same keg, but I want to leave the yeast and sediment behind. I'll be using a keg with a liquid dip tube with an inch or so cut off the end to siphon the beer off the trub and yeast cake.
I know the easiest way would be to simply connect up the CO2 and "push" the beer out the liquid tube. However, that seems like a waste of a lot of CO2 to me. So I got the idea of trying to siphon out the dip tube. But how to get the siphon started (short of somehow connecting the autosiphon to the liquid out post)?
Here's my idea. What if I assemble a siphon tube from some simple beverage line and ball lock liquid quick-disconnect, with nothing on the other end of the beverage line. I'd set the source keg on an elevated surface, and connect the siphon line to the liquid out post, draping the open end into the destination keg sitting on the floor. I'd then apply a couple PSI of CO2 to the source keg to get the flow started, then open the pressure relief valve (to vent remaining CO2 and let in air to fill the vacuum as the beer level drops)
In theory, the beer should just keep flowing until the beer level in the source keg drops below the opening of the liquid dip tube and it loses siphon, right?
If that worked, it would save me a lot of CO2. So, would that work?
Yes, I know I could just carbonate in the same keg, but I want to leave the yeast and sediment behind. I'll be using a keg with a liquid dip tube with an inch or so cut off the end to siphon the beer off the trub and yeast cake.
I know the easiest way would be to simply connect up the CO2 and "push" the beer out the liquid tube. However, that seems like a waste of a lot of CO2 to me. So I got the idea of trying to siphon out the dip tube. But how to get the siphon started (short of somehow connecting the autosiphon to the liquid out post)?
Here's my idea. What if I assemble a siphon tube from some simple beverage line and ball lock liquid quick-disconnect, with nothing on the other end of the beverage line. I'd set the source keg on an elevated surface, and connect the siphon line to the liquid out post, draping the open end into the destination keg sitting on the floor. I'd then apply a couple PSI of CO2 to the source keg to get the flow started, then open the pressure relief valve (to vent remaining CO2 and let in air to fill the vacuum as the beer level drops)
In theory, the beer should just keep flowing until the beer level in the source keg drops below the opening of the liquid dip tube and it loses siphon, right?
If that worked, it would save me a lot of CO2. So, would that work?