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Would a simply injector/regulator + CO2 tank with a CAP PPM-4 monitor be everything I needed to do enrichment?
Yes you'd be well on your way...
Would a simply injector/regulator + CO2 tank with a CAP PPM-4 monitor be everything I needed to do enrichment?
Yes you'd be well on your way...
Wicked! Thanks manYep, that is champagne yeast. 1 pack is all you need regardless of how big your tank is. More won't hurt though. To turn off CO2 from yeast you will require a tank that seals. I use these in brewing: View attachment 2055720 It is called a Corny(cornelius) keg. It was used by pepsi to store soda until they came out with the soda syrup in a bag deal. It is good to a high pressure and has a safety vent if the pressure gets too high. It would be extremely easy to set this up to a co2 regulator and co2 controller. It would not need an air lock or anything. The yeast aren't affected by the pressures involved. Personally I would use 2 just to make sure that no beer/yeast/wine/sugarwater was forced up to the top of the tank by the yeast fermenting. Sometimes they get really excited and overflow. By using 2 you would be able to use the second as an overflow basically. You could also just put 4 gallons of liquid in the containerI did this when I brewed more. Id brew in 1 keg, and save the CO2 in the other. Then once I put the keg into the kegerator I would use the one where I saved the CO2 to dispense the beer. It kept me from having to refill my CO2 tanks. I might add that since it would still require a regulator and controller that cost 250-350 dollars. Corny kegs are 40 dollars used give or take. It wouldn't be saving you any money at this point in all honesty unless you like to drink a lot. It costs about 25 bucks to make 5 gallons of guinness type beer or sierra nevada IPA type beer. That would give you CO2 for 4-5 days. You get about 50-55 beers from 5 gallons. If you spend 25 bucks a week on beer it would basically be free CO2. I know there are times when I spend many hundreds of dollars a week on beer, but that might only be 15-20 beers of the kind I drink. Making a sugar/juice based wine would be significantly cheaper. 5-10 per 5 gallon batch. If you have fruit trees or access to one then you could easily cut the cost down to a couple dollars a week. With wine you could add the sugar in 2 batches and extend it for 10-14 days.
Wicked! Thanks manI was briefly looking at a few and saw that there are ball lock ones and pin lock ones:
http://www.cornykeg.com/index.asp?category=24756&count=1
http://www.cornykeg.com/catalog.asp?prodid=703818&showprevnext=1
The ball lock one has a relief valve which I assume is the one I want. I don't really understand the difference between the two, but I'll go with the one you said. The 5 gallon one is about $50. I don't mind the $20 a week I'd have to spend on sugar/yeast/fruit juice that's fine. That's really ingenious storing the CO2 in a separate container. How did you get the CO2 from one keg into the other?