Closed Gravity Transfer - How To Save Co2 - Closed Transferring beer into a keg using gravity.

I received a great bit of advice from a subscriber on transferring your finished beer to a keg using a closed circuit and gravity. I recon it's awesome and I thought I would share it with you.
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[@alidavemason4417]

I have a Grainfather conical fermenter (GCF) & also do a closed transfer similar to this. I also capture the co2 during fermentation into the keg by connecting a blow off tube from the top of the GCF to the liquid out post of the pre sanitised keg & vent the keg gas post out into a Mylar balloon (this allows for suck back when crash chilling). It may be difficult to visualise but I use a small thin ordinary balloon with a pin size hole at the end connected between the keg & the Mylar balloon as a valve. When the Mylar is full the small balloon inflates just enough to straighten out & releases pressure through the pin hole. As fermentation decreases, pressure reduces & the small balloon deflates, bends & seals to stop any suck back from the outside air. When transferring the beer into the keg I connect the bottom tap on the GCF to the keg beer post & connect the blow off tube onto the keg gas post, this allows the gravity driven closed transfer to begin when I open the tap on the GCF. All this sounds complicated but really isn't.

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

Thank you for the idea I think it's great. Looking forward to trying this out, cheers👍

[@patrickglaser1560]

Put a spunding valve on your keg. Blowtie specifically from kegland

[@DNL1200GSA]

Great vid mate. Well explained! Thanks Out-takes FAF!!

[@acdmonteiro]

..."redbacks are deadly of course" - love the way ozzies talk about things that can kill.

[@rfox2014]

Awesome vid, just picked up an all-rounder and this helps me a lot

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

Thanks Bobby, I am so gad my videos are helping!

[@ssadams]

was doing this today so did a re watch. Cheers 😀 👍 🍺

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

That's awesome, Cheers

[@dalemudgway3321]

Hi! Love the tip. Cheers 🍻

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

No worries hope it helps!!!!!!!!!!!😀

[@darkvalebrewer93]

Nice one dude! Looking good

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

Thank you Dark Vale Brewer.

[@marius6034]

Thanks help a lot👍🏻

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

Glad it helped

[@frankgmail2041]

Hi mate, well done on the video. Yes you will save a ton of gas this way. Keep up the great work. Cheers, Frank.

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

Thanks I am enjoying the education I am getting from doing these videos! Cheers

[@badpughomebrewing9031]

I'll have to try that

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

It's such an energy saver.

[@jaygalbreath6887]

I have been do this the same way. Works great. I do have a filter on my beer line.

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

Does the filter slow down the flow at all?

[@jaygalbreath6887]

@@SimpleHomeBrew I have not had a problem. I post a video on the Facebook page to show you my setup

[@jaygalbreath6887]

@@SimpleHomeBrew I have not had a problem so far

[@gavinbuckett260]

The hops may get stuck in your dip tube inside the keg mate when serving, just something to be aware of. It happened to me so I put a beer disconnect on the end of my gas line and blew it out back up into the keg, it stirs the beer up so I just let it settle down for a few hours, little tip if it happens, great video as always mate. 👍🍺🍺

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

That's exactly what happened an absolute pain in the butt. I did try and blow the hop back but it ended up stirring the bottom up even more and ended up clogging it instantly. Oh Well, i ended up with about 16 litres in the end

[@gavinbuckett260]

@@SimpleHomeBrew yeah I always filter the heavily hopped beers nowadays into the keg, bit of stuffing around but saves you headaches in the long run. Just finished brewing a double batch Hoegaarden Clone, in the cubes now to cool down, still got to empty the fermenter of a double batch AG German Helles I brewed first which has fermented out to put the AG Hoegaarden in tomorrow, stocks are a bit low so doing some double batches in time for Christmas, feel like a covers singer in a bar, getting requests all the time. 🤣🤣. Looking to take holidays over Christmas so maybe we can hook up for that joint brew day we talked about ages ago?

[@user-id2bm9hw3i]

Closed transfer is over kill. I just open the pressure valve and let the gravity work

[@patrickglaser1560]

Try that with a hazy boy

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

The problems with doing that are immense. Firstly you risk oxygen ingression which will very quickly oxidise the beer. Also, as mentioned in another comment, if you have a hoppy brew you can get blockages as you transfer. The idea of closed transfer is to preserve the brew for long periods and retain the aromas and flavours.

[@user-id2bm9hw3i]

@@SimpleHomeBrew A slow moving beer with still surface will not react with oxygen that fast

[@BitterRealityBrewing]

Watching while the lovely Tropical Storm IAN is on top of Florida (hit at a Cat4 on the west coast of Florida, and those poor souls got flooded really badly) Great way to reduce CO2 usage and makes perfect sense. Pierre, What are you using for your camera tracking? Do you have two Pivos? I have one of the older ones that don't go up and down and drives me nuts as it is hard to get tracking initially.

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

I hope your place isn't in the path of the storm! I have been watching The Daily Woo from your area and he has been very informative on the cyclone as soon as I saw it I thought of you guys and wandered how much it was affecting you. I don't have a Pivo at all. The video tracker I used in this video is a TELESIN Smart Following Pan-Tilt Gimbal it is terrible lucky it was cheap. It doesn't tilt by the way. Take care Pierre

[@BitterRealityBrewing]

@@SimpleHomeBrew Was very impressed with the TELESIN as it looked like it did tilt, but it was very smooth and quick at following you. As for the weather here, we've been really lucky, including many of my family members throughout Florida (My Dad was very, very close to the eye of the storm, but his house is newer and concrete and block, plus on the top of the highest hill in the area.). The only bad thing we had happen, was a large tree fell on my wife's car and smashed up the hood but overall, the car is fine. Sadly, on the west coast of Florida, there were too many that weren't so lucky with both massive loss of property, and I expect a fair amount of loss of life. (Here in the U.S., they usually lie about how many people die in these storms. So if you hear a number, you can safely imagine that number is much, much higher. It is bad for tourism to give out high and accurate numbers.)

[@AM2PMReviews]

Love the He-Shed and cool Aussie accent. What’s a “red-back” spider? Sounds like a black widow. Oh it turns out it is also known as an Australian Black Widow. They look very similar.

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

Thank you, I believe that they are very similar, Black Widows are much more venomous than a Red Back. Both are very much the same in almost every way.

[@brianhiggins7360]

Good video. So you leave the dry hops in the bag in the keg until the beer is gone? I am reading 24 hrs to 5-7 days. Can you clarify your process? Thanks

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

No not at all, I don't add any hops to my keg only the fermenter. I always leave the dry hops in my fermenter until its finished fermenting mainly to avoid adding any extra contamination. I normally add the dry hops as the krausen starts to settle and leave until I transfer it to a keg.

[@pauldonohue7536]

Watched in preparation, i have no co2 and ive got a coopers European ale to transfer over from fermzilla to a keg.. No idea what im doing 🤣

[@SimpleHomeBrew]

Do you have an auto syphon?

[@pauldonohue7536]

@@SimpleHomeBrew nope, I've got Fermzilla full of lager thats lost all its natural carbonation, a spunding valve, a 10ltr keg, and thats it! I plan to transfer it to the keg, then force carbonate, I'll get another 10ltr keg with next month's pay and force carbonate that one too. I need to buy the lines the ball locks and CO2. I'm new to this hobby and went in quite blind, my plan really was to to use the Fermzilla as an all in one vessel to ferment and serve from, but I don't want to drink 20+ liters of the same beer, I like to change things up and I want to get another beer on the go