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boxerhouse
Joined: 11 Apr 2013 Posts: 5 Location: Lawrence, kansas
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Link Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 2:21 am Post subject: Using gelatin to clear beer |
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Can the gelatins be added after a keg has been carbonated, and chilled.?
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kal Forum Administrator
Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 11116 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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boxerhouse
Joined: 11 Apr 2013 Posts: 5 Location: Lawrence, kansas
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Link Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks,
Really enjoy your web site and the info provided.
Also have question in regards to using 1/2 barrel kegs. How do you fill the keg with beer then carb. I heard that you need to take out the reverse flow ball in the sanke tap, how? What are the steps to fill and carb a 15.5 sanke keg. Any help or direction would be helpful, i have seen several ideas on how to remove the tube but no info on filling using the sanke tap.
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kal Forum Administrator
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perogi
Joined: 12 Feb 2012 Posts: 850 Location: NH
Drinking: Perogi Pale, NEIPA, Nutter's Crossing Nut Brown Ale, Edmund Fitzgerald Porter Clone
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Link Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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Not sure how you sanitized the keg but please be VERY careful with them - a brewer's assistant died at Redhook in Portsmouth, NH last year cleaning a keg.
Two ideas come to me:
1) Can you add beer in the out tube and purge the air with the air tube? (That's how I fill my cornies).
2) Take out the spear and fill it there.
Carbing is just like carbing a corny - put it on pressure and wait.
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sigsegv
Joined: 11 Dec 2012 Posts: 38 Location: San Francisco, CA
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Link Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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perogi wrote: | Not sure how you sanitized the keg but please be VERY careful with them - a brewer's assistant died at Redhook in Portsmouth, NH last year cleaning a keg. |
That specific incident apparently involved a plastic keg connected to a keg washer operating at a pressure exceeding what the keg was rated at. Found an interesting read about exploding plastic kegs here: http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121021/GJNEWS_01/121029899
In general, there are always risks of lethal failure in any closed high pressurized system. Make sure you understand the pressure ratings of the parts in the system and follow all proper safety protocols - don't exceed vessel pressure ratings, employ appropriate functional PRV's, use blast shields to protect operators, etc.
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perogi
Joined: 12 Feb 2012 Posts: 850 Location: NH
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Link Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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Holy smokes - Fosters finally prints something resembling journalism!
(NH Native here )
EDIT: Thanks for the link!
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boxerhouse
Joined: 11 Apr 2013 Posts: 5 Location: Lawrence, kansas
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Link Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the input. Last night I broke down a old sanke coupler and there is a reverse flow ball in the beer out tube. I assume this would be taken out if you were to fill thru the liquid out tube. Then how do you carb the keg? if you add co2 thru the gas in tube wont it just push the beer out thru the out tube. I guess you could put a tap on the liquid out to hold co2 in keg?
Help?
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perogi
Joined: 12 Feb 2012 Posts: 850 Location: NH
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Link Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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I would remove the spear to clean and fill and then pressure with CO2 into the keg. You would need to make sure the output on the tap is closed.
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