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Beer engines are quite heavy, but the handles come off them. I'd get a clamp on engine and have a small sturdy frame to go with the jockey box. Or just clamp it on a table at the venue.

I use this method, no gas needed, no spunding valve needed. If you have the pressures right in fermenter and receiving keg and have already fined the beer it's servable straight away.

@aero-spaced-out Pretty standard elderflower wine recipe, aiming for 11%. Open fermented for first few days, stirring daily to redunk the umbrells. In a fermentasaurus. Then when gravity about 1.025 I fitted the spend valve and let rise to 25 psi. Once ferment finished slow crash and dropped...

Next option is a saison yeast. That will munch it down a bit.

Thanks I used to connect the pump via three way through the single CFC but the extra 12m of coil I added warranted some more oomph ( in my opinion). I can chill the whole batch from boil to pitch in about 15 minutes of whirlpool. Then a ten minute stand to let it all settle and pump into the...

They are all very simple devices. Dudes brews has good video on reconditioning a beer engine. I've taken all of the ones I got apart and have replaced orings etc. RLBS ltd have spaces and engines. Plenty on eBay though but will need a little work

In no way does Argon stratify, neither does CO2. There is too much activity in the gas and they will just mix. If it did when you went into a still cave underground you'd suffocate because all of the CO2 had settled down. I have spunded and closed transfer when making sparkling elderflower...

Are they sealed units? The ones I have are years old and are several parts together so not that sanitary. But I'll go and have a look. Thanks.

I only use the hop spider for whole hops and elderflower for elderflower saison. I use a home made trub trapper / brewtools trapper. Only 13.5 g of saaz in this Tafelbier so not a great example. First brew testing setup having done some more mods to my guten. Second pump to circulate through...

Nice double skinned bags come with the wine expert and on the house kits. Would need tap fitting into the cap, but doable.

@Buffers brewery I thought the picture was showing a perspex/ clear float. I've been on the lookout for a smaller float for some of my fermenters. Was thinking one of those plastic corks would do it, but they have been surpassed by screwtops. I'll keep looking.

The only wine bottling I do is into old champagne bottles and use crown caps. But 90% of a batch goes into bags.

Nice work, might be worth getting a filter to go on your floating dip tube if you are doing hoppy beers. Where did you get the float from? and what's the diameter of it please.

@peebee Strange even in landscape I can't see the link. Have seen the note about landscape being needed hence the hunt. Not all my following of this thread on a mobile phone either.

Worth a read

Great progress. The bubbles are because the beer has carbonation ( probably a bit high ) when you lower the pressure in the tube with the engine pulling the gas comes out of solution. Much like the head on a pint when you pour it via a keg with pressure and a tap. You need a very low...

I think if the blanking sparkler was fitted this wouldn't be happening Perhaps a trial using a keg with water in that is open is worth trying. Just seems that the pressure in the keg is lower than the back pressure from a column of water. As stated before the pressure in the keg should be...

@ARNWD Agree with you about the is there enough pressure in the system. But the engine must be lowering the pressure to move the beer up as in the video. The demand valve should shut to stop the pull back to keg once pull has stopped due to the pressure in the beer line from the keg.

If it's working fine in an open system is the demand valve in that system when dropped in a bucket?