All done. Regassed once new S30 valve and pressure gauge installed and holding pressure at 7psi.
Will find out in a couple of weeks if the sterilised tinfoil worked!
Basic questions re pressure barrel
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Re: Basic questions re pressure barrel
henleybrewdog wrote:All done. Regassed once new S30 valve and pressure gauge installed and holding pressure at 7psi.
Will find out in a couple of weeks if the sterilised tinfoil worked!
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Fermenting:
Conditioning:
Drinking: Southwold Again,
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Planning: Winter drinking Beer
Fermenting:
Conditioning:
Drinking: Southwold Again,
Up Next: John Barleycorn (Barley Wine)
Planning: Winter drinking Beer
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Re: Basic questions re pressure barrel
I expect that your brew is long gone by now, but I'd thought I'd add my two penneth....
I usually just prime and stick it in a pressure barrel. I've got a cheap one that I can't remember where it came from and that doesn't have any form of gas injection system but does appear to have a pressure release system (although not obvious how it works). Anyway, the point is that I have several types of pressure barrel and the cheapest and most basic one gives me the best results. Consistently.
Once the primed beer is in, I leave it alone for 4-6 weeks (as long as I can bear!) and just drink. Pressure has always been sufficient for the length of time it takes to drink and there's just a tap at the bottom of the barrel.
I've given up worrying about the oxygen affecting the beer as it doesn't ever seem to. Maybe I just drink it too quick
I usually just prime and stick it in a pressure barrel. I've got a cheap one that I can't remember where it came from and that doesn't have any form of gas injection system but does appear to have a pressure release system (although not obvious how it works). Anyway, the point is that I have several types of pressure barrel and the cheapest and most basic one gives me the best results. Consistently.
Once the primed beer is in, I leave it alone for 4-6 weeks (as long as I can bear!) and just drink. Pressure has always been sufficient for the length of time it takes to drink and there's just a tap at the bottom of the barrel.
I've given up worrying about the oxygen affecting the beer as it doesn't ever seem to. Maybe I just drink it too quick
Re: Basic questions re pressure barrel
Forget about the oxygen in the head space oxidising the beer. Secondary fermentation will use most of it up anyway.
If you're filling, say, a cornie keg with carbonated beer from another container (such as a plastic keg in which you've allowed the beer to condition an clear) and won't prime in the cornie, then it's best to purge.
If you're filling, say, a cornie keg with carbonated beer from another container (such as a plastic keg in which you've allowed the beer to condition an clear) and won't prime in the cornie, then it's best to purge.
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Re: Basic questions re pressure barrel
Whilst this thread is being bumped just thought I'd ask.. Like Jim - I like to run my english styles through an angram handpull with minimal priming. With a demand valve. I'm never happy though with the tap end connection which is basically some silicon tube squeezed over with a jubilee clip. A john guest fitting would be preferable with a reducer to tube. But I can never seem to find one in their catalogue. Can anyone linky me to right page. Its a basic old boots brown pb
Just like trying new ideas!