I use a simple closed co2 transfer with my glass carboys using the cap with the ss racking cane, homemade co2 inlet etc. it’s worked great for a year making mostly neipas, little learning curve n the beginning but now usually takes me 20-30 min to pressures transfer starsan from one keg to the other, set up equipment, transfer and force carb. So today follow same process and set my regulator to 3psi, beers moving along, I adjust the racking cane down a hair and I do have a line before it bottoms into the gunk, and it stops. Release pressure, pull off gas in line to keg thinking I clogged someth8ng. clean the tube, great flow, sanitize and put back, start process over and the racking cane isn’t pushing anything now from carboy to keg? Wtf? messed with it a few times before I noticed the carboy cap bulging like it was under serious pressure and wanted to shoot off, wondered if I had a leak under the cap, took it of, put it back on, opened the gas at 3psi, nothing. So finally I racked it using my siphon which also stalled out a couple t8mes for no freakin reason so in the end I left about a gallon of awesome smelling NEIPA in the carboy, oxygenated the **** outta my beer when transferrring with the siphon having to start it multiple times and only got about 4 gal into the keg. Any idea why the beer when I cleaned the dip tube and there was no clog wouldn’t push beer over under pressure? Every time I redid it I watched the beer level for atleast a minute and it never moved. So weird, frustrating and disappointing. I’d love any theories in case it happens again.
so I got double doubled. I thought I cleared the post so racked as I said above then 5 hrs later went to pour a beer and nothing. Pulled the out post and the dip tube was full of hop flakes. Cleaned that out. Poured a pitcher of funk to clean out the bottom and seems better now and that qd I went back and blew it out and a bunch of hop matter blew out so that plus the relief pin were both my issues I’m guessing. Tough day.
so I got double doubled. I thought I cleared the post so racked as I said above then 5 hrs later went to pour a beer and nothing. Pulled the out post and the dip tube was full of hop flakes. Cleaned that out. Poured a pitcher of funk to clean out the bottom and seems better now and that qd I went back and blew it out and a bunch of hop matter blew out so that plus the relief pin were both my issues I’m guessing. Tough day.
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