I have a similar stainless steel conical fermenter and it's great! It is difficult however to get the yeast trub out because of clogging and it requires some poking. But I've definitely bottled very clean beers without dirt in them.
Poor design. They should have made the trub dump port a 1 1/2-inch tri-clamp valve with longer support legs. Rushed product to market to get sales as fast as they can.
Generally, the yeast cake settled on top is choice and more than sufficient for purpose. It is collected from the top using a sanitized utensil. Quite frankly, if your careful not to introduce problems you could just wash down the fermenter with purified water and let the washer yeast settle on top. Then just drain off the trub etc. repeat and run continuous batches. Two to three fermentations get progressively better for me because the yeast becomes more conditioned as the fermenter environment is actually complimentary. While my first fermentation is good my last is great. I call it at four because the yeast cells become over populous. Problems? They are more of a concern at the draught draft area. Do you need to sterilize a sanitized fermenter after a rapid ale fermentation - nope! After three to four weeks of ferments? Yes-probably because the scaling increasingly becomes more hardened and difficult to remove - it sorta grows back on top of where it formed on the last previous batch.
@egruber50 I don't know behind the scenes like you do about their motives and rushing to market (do you work there or something?), but after a few batches, it's true: this is not a trub dump at all. You'll never get the trub out of that tiny little hole (and elbow!). If you do manage to get some out you'll just form a channel in the tub bed and get no more than 50% of it out in my experience. My current batch had fantastic attenuation, but the yeast sank hard and fast and there was no trub dump at all. Precisely no trub was coming out of that little elbow on the bottom. I'm sure it's going to be just fine, but I do wish this were a trub drain, not just a washing drain (which is what it is)! This is one area where the FastFerment conical shines! I also don't care for the friction fit of the racking arm, but no big deal. This coming from the guy who CRINGED at the amount of perfectly good beer they washed down the drain in this video, so maybe you shouldn't listen to me. 😂
I have a similar stainless steel conical fermenter and it's great! It is difficult however to get the yeast trub out because of clogging and it requires some poking. But I've definitely bottled very clean beers without dirt in them.
Looks exactly like the SS brewtech V1 bucket.
I didn't see the underside of the lid and was wondering does it have a silicon seal around the edge or similar?
yes, or the airlock wouldn't bubble.
I can tell you from first hand experience, you can’t go by the bubbles in airlock to tell if fermentation is done
Right. Always take gravity readings and look for consecutive indentical readings.
How can I Dump yeast cake from the drain valve without it getting clog up
Poor design. They should have made the trub dump port a 1 1/2-inch tri-clamp valve with longer support legs. Rushed product to market to get sales as fast as they can.
Generally, the yeast cake settled on top is choice and more than sufficient for purpose. It is collected from the top using a sanitized utensil. Quite frankly, if your careful not to introduce problems you could just wash down the fermenter with purified water and let the washer yeast settle on top. Then just drain off the trub etc. repeat and run continuous batches. Two to three fermentations get progressively better for me because the yeast becomes more conditioned as the fermenter environment is actually complimentary. While my first fermentation is good my last is great. I call it at four because the yeast cells become over populous. Problems? They are more of a concern at the draught draft area. Do you need to sterilize a sanitized fermenter after a rapid ale fermentation - nope! After three to four weeks of ferments? Yes-probably because the scaling increasingly becomes more hardened and difficult to remove - it sorta grows back on top of where it formed on the last previous batch.
@egruber50 I don't know behind the scenes like you do about their motives and rushing to market (do you work there or something?), but after a few batches, it's true: this is not a trub dump at all. You'll never get the trub out of that tiny little hole (and elbow!). If you do manage to get some out you'll just form a channel in the tub bed and get no more than 50% of it out in my experience.
My current batch had fantastic attenuation, but the yeast sank hard and fast and there was no trub dump at all. Precisely no trub was coming out of that little elbow on the bottom. I'm sure it's going to be just fine, but I do wish this were a trub drain, not just a washing drain (which is what it is)! This is one area where the FastFerment conical shines!
I also don't care for the friction fit of the racking arm, but no big deal.
This coming from the guy who CRINGED at the amount of perfectly good beer they washed down the drain in this video, so maybe you shouldn't listen to me. 😂