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Sounds good guys thanks for the info...you guys ever drink the beer straight out of the unitank? Beer is fully carbonated..will move to keg tomorrow but temp is 36 and I just cant stop pouring me some beers. Best hobby in the world.

Guys So I just ordered my spunding valve but now reading a lot of spunding information here at homebrew talk fermenting under pressure is mostly for lagers...i dont really brew lagers i only do Ales. What is the benefit of a spunding valve for an Ale?

I should have mentioned that the 4psi in the tank was already there from when I closed the blow off valve when I had a few points left of fermentation and had 6 psi in the tank. I then dumped some yeast and lost 2 psi now in have 4 left. The co2 has done nothing to be honest. I set up the co2...

Thank you. I was not aware of wetting pressure. I just read a whole article about it but unfortunately i cant just take out the stone now while I have it the tank. I might have to move the co2 to the blow off valve.

Not looking to harvest or age. I just want the beer carb as soon as possible. I crashed down from 68 to 60 and just did the first dumb but was pretty much all hops. I will lower to 55 or 50 and do another one. But now it looks like my carb stone is clogged as I have the co2 hooked up to 8psi...

Anyone?

I promise last question.. You guys dumb the first yeast then cold crash or do you cold crash first then dumb out?

I'm exactly 4 points from FG. I'll leave it as is until Its completely done but watching the psi then cold crash. Thanks everyone for all your help and good info

Guys I left the blow off valve off overnight and I have about 5psi in the Unitank now. I was able to open my sampling valve and got it unclogged. Can I use this same 5psi to cold crash or do I still need to hook up CO2 to maintain the pressure?

Yea just closed the blow off. Will let it get to maybe 5psi and try it. Thanks

Meant racking valve

Its seperate from the tracking valve. It has it's own port just above the racking valve.

Any of you ever had the sampling valve clogged? I am still seeing bubbles come out of the blow off valve and I dont want to reli on the bubbles to figure out where my beer is but I can't take a sample of it to take a reading. I also don't want to dump out the yeast if it's not done yet. Any...

Guys thanks for all this info. 2 more questions... So can I dump yeast without a hooking up CO2 or would that also cause negative pressure? 2nd..can I carbonate in the unitank without a spunding valve if I set CO2 to 12psi?

I know..I've been brewing for a long time but I've been doing it the cheap way using glass carboy. I am not too familiar with Unitank but a spunding valve will be my next purchase. I thought I could use the PRV as a spunding valve when I got the unitank but now find out I'm not supposed to.