SS Brewtech Carb Stone
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- and I'm still not sure how to transfer from the fermenter to the Brite tank...
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Well played Sir.
I will also be using the John Guest male threaded into carbstone which you could also add a valve inline to effectively remove the need for the valve on carbstone just leave open.
The godfather of procrastination
I still think putting the fermenters higher is a good idea. 🍻
It really is tempting...
The keg post fitting is self closing anyway so the ball valve can be left open permanently I think? You can control by just attaching/detatching the quick disconnect?
This is of course completely logical :-)
The valve is there to prevent liquid seeping back into pipework. It would be a bad idea to remove it. If the keg post fails when the tank is full, you're knackered! I think that if the beer is allowed to flow back, without a valve, it will make a mess of the keg post. Why not source a hose tail that fits your existing pipe or swap out the existing pipe for pipe of the appropriate dimension?
The valve is either open or closed, it doesn't in itself prevent backflow. My concern is that this type of valve requires the two white plastic parts to be compressed against the ball of the valve.
The ball lock post and disconnect are a reasonable modification if I can ensure the components of the ball valve are not compromised.
The only theoretical issue, whatever connections are made, would be if the gas ran out and beer flowed back to the regulator. I use inline non return valves on gas lines so that shouldn't be a problem.
Over engineering slightly, but if you can route your gas line from up high, with a check valve (at ceiling height for example), there will always be a large "bubble" of CO2 trapped in the line thats under some amount of pressure, any liquid backflow isn't going to travel any higher than the level it sits at at the tank (the tank isn't ever going to be under more pressure than the CO2 supply).
Realistically I think that's only likely to happen if you remove all pressure from the beer line and give the liquid plenty of time (days) to diffuse back through the stone.
Maybe this is more of a problem when dealing with gigantic commerical scale brite tanks (where you have hundreds or thousands of litres of headspace), but these are fairly small in the scheme of things.
As for the argument about making a mess of a keg post, so what! That's going to be its dedicated purpose and the ball valve effectively becomes a slightly complicated pipe 🤷♂️
If they're the same ones, the hose barb is 3/8th so a John Guest pushfit will work fine to connect to the Co2 cylinder.
I've now replaced the barb with a ball lock post which will make removal far easier.