This. It's why I stopped dumping the trub as I'm able to transfer more beer into the keg. I start with the racking arm pointing up (or higher than level anyway) and as I'm transferring to the keg, I keep lowering it until I start sucking in trub. By completely dumping the trub, I'm leaving good...
I've been reading the replies to your post. I don't harvest yeast, so I haven't given it too much thought (unlike going down the rabbit hole on every other aspect of my setup). What I find amusing is that I learned the finer aspects of brewing at a local brewery here in Los Angeles (All Season...
Need to find a home for my two glass carboys. I have one 5 gal and one 6.5 gal. Free to anyone that wants them. No shipping... must pick up. Both carboys include thermometer strips. I'm in Mar Vista (adjacent to Marina Del Rey, Venice and Santa Monica).
--Blaine
I just finished reading ALL 74 pages of this thread... that was an exercise to say the least!
Tons of posts about oxygen free transfer of dry hops into the fermenter. I've done two batches in my new CF5 and they both came out beyond expectations... one was a Pliny the Elder clone and the other...