Ike
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SO, I'm really excited by some of the posts I've seen lately showing how some folks are using CO2 pressure to move your hooch from primary to secondary/keg. I know head pressure usually does the job on this one, but I like how people are doing this to keep their finished product oxygen-free.
ALSO, this is of particular interest to be because I do a lot of ciders, and am exploring filtering. It seems that a lot of people do a gravity transfer to a keg, then seal everything up and transfer to another keg through the filter setup, using CO2 to provide the "push."
SO, I'm excited about using CO2 AND head pressure to push beers/ciders from primary into secondary, but passing it through the filter system on this transfer, saving the second keg-to-keg transfer.
That's the setup. Here's the question:
Anyone ever use a small pump to move beer/cider/whatever from point A to B instead of compressed CO2?
I know a lot of folks use Chuggers and similar pumps in their brewing setups. I'm thinking about something smaller, maybe a peristaltic pump:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S0FVFC4/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
OR, just another pump similar to the pond pump I use to move ice water through my IC:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JWJIC0K/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
Dunno about the inner workings of the second one, and how difficult it'd be to sanitize. But, it IS submersible, so I figured worst case I'd just fire it up and dunk the whole thing in Starsan and let it circulate a while.
The reason I ask: yeah, I have a kegerator with CO2 and a regulator. But, it's all plumbed up to a secondary regulator, and the whole shebang is outdoors. SO, in the single digit temps, I either have to disconnect everything to bring the tank/reg indoors, or I have to do the whole operation outdoors.
Sure, I could buy another tank and reg. But, if I could just plug a pump in and go...
Waddaya think?
ALSO, this is of particular interest to be because I do a lot of ciders, and am exploring filtering. It seems that a lot of people do a gravity transfer to a keg, then seal everything up and transfer to another keg through the filter setup, using CO2 to provide the "push."
SO, I'm excited about using CO2 AND head pressure to push beers/ciders from primary into secondary, but passing it through the filter system on this transfer, saving the second keg-to-keg transfer.
That's the setup. Here's the question:
Anyone ever use a small pump to move beer/cider/whatever from point A to B instead of compressed CO2?
I know a lot of folks use Chuggers and similar pumps in their brewing setups. I'm thinking about something smaller, maybe a peristaltic pump:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S0FVFC4/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
OR, just another pump similar to the pond pump I use to move ice water through my IC:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JWJIC0K/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
Dunno about the inner workings of the second one, and how difficult it'd be to sanitize. But, it IS submersible, so I figured worst case I'd just fire it up and dunk the whole thing in Starsan and let it circulate a while.
The reason I ask: yeah, I have a kegerator with CO2 and a regulator. But, it's all plumbed up to a secondary regulator, and the whole shebang is outdoors. SO, in the single digit temps, I either have to disconnect everything to bring the tank/reg indoors, or I have to do the whole operation outdoors.
Sure, I could buy another tank and reg. But, if I could just plug a pump in and go...
Waddaya think?
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