beervoid
Hophead & Pellet Rubber
Hello everyone,
I have 2 kegs fitted with a DIY floating diptube. This is the first time I have tried to transfer my fermented and dry hopped beer from 1 keg off the yeast and hops into another purged keg.
The keg was spunded at 15psi for a few days to allow some natural carbonation and oxygen scavenging.
My receving keg is spunded and set at about 8psi or so while I transfer from the pressured keg at 12psi or so in order to keep pressure on it.
In the beginning the transfer is going fine but after about a few minutes all I'm starting to get is foam and I can't seem to transfer anymore then that.
If I let it settle for a few hours I can again transfer some more but the same thing happens.
I've tried cold crashing it a little bit in the 16-18c range. Let the keg sit for a night and the transfer went better this time but again locked up.
I'm now half way through the keg and decided to cold crash it completely this time to see if it helps.
I've also blown some c02 through the OUT in order to clear any hops that might have blocked the filter on the DIY diptube.
The only thing I can imagine what is going wrong is that by naturally carbonating the fermenting keg the transfer is going bad because the filters on the diptube somehow create a disturbance and therefor letting co2 out of solution causing foam?
I've spunded at 15psi and ferment around 22-23c so I can't imagine much co2 was absorbed already.
Could transfering warm(er) beer be problematic this way?
Any help from others with a similar setup would be greatly appreciated.
I have 2 kegs fitted with a DIY floating diptube. This is the first time I have tried to transfer my fermented and dry hopped beer from 1 keg off the yeast and hops into another purged keg.
The keg was spunded at 15psi for a few days to allow some natural carbonation and oxygen scavenging.
My receving keg is spunded and set at about 8psi or so while I transfer from the pressured keg at 12psi or so in order to keep pressure on it.
In the beginning the transfer is going fine but after about a few minutes all I'm starting to get is foam and I can't seem to transfer anymore then that.
If I let it settle for a few hours I can again transfer some more but the same thing happens.
I've tried cold crashing it a little bit in the 16-18c range. Let the keg sit for a night and the transfer went better this time but again locked up.
I'm now half way through the keg and decided to cold crash it completely this time to see if it helps.
I've also blown some c02 through the OUT in order to clear any hops that might have blocked the filter on the DIY diptube.
The only thing I can imagine what is going wrong is that by naturally carbonating the fermenting keg the transfer is going bad because the filters on the diptube somehow create a disturbance and therefor letting co2 out of solution causing foam?
I've spunded at 15psi and ferment around 22-23c so I can't imagine much co2 was absorbed already.
Could transfering warm(er) beer be problematic this way?
Any help from others with a similar setup would be greatly appreciated.
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