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Kinda depends on how much beer you're carbonating and what type of sugar you're using, doesn't it?

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How did I miss that? Answer - I didn't. It must be a short term memory thing. Which is not exactly cool TBH.

I've never used an all-in-one, but I wonder if you might squeeze (no pun intended) a bit of extra efficiency out of it by dunk sparging in a bucket instead and stirring the grains in the sparge water. This would kind of defeat one purpose of an AIO, since you'd have another vessel to clean.

Yeah, an alternative to buying something they disagreed with and didn't realize that they were giving their money to the same multinational corporation anyway. Also, it's almost always on sale somewhere for about a buck a can if you buy it by the case. Anyway, the answer to the original...

Who said to open the PRV? Connect the gas post to the fermenter. Closed loop. No oxygen exposure.

OTOH, it really is just stupid easy to do a closed transfer.

I don't much care how long it takes since I usually don't stand around watching it.

Tipping has gotten completely out of control in this country... Now get off my lawn dammit!

I do closed gravity transfers into purged kegs through the liquid out post all the time, so I'm really not understanding why folks are saying that you're better off opening the keg and using a hose. The key of course is that the keg has to be purged with CO2 and the CO2 from the keg has to be...

The amount of headspace you'll have left after removing a bottling wand is very close to what you will find in bottled commercial beers, which I guess is why lots of people consider it the correct amount. It's also easy, since you don't have to tilt the bottle and press the wand against the side...

It will take longer if it stays cooler, but 7 weeks isn't exactly rushing to try it. How much priming sugar did you use? IOW, how much carbonation were you shooting for? Lots of carbonation and a big head are not things that I usually look for in an imperial stout, but YMMV of course.

Yes. I meant Lalbrew Farmhouse specifically.