Blichmann Cornical

[Cornel]

Hi All,

Any views or anyone with experience using this Blichmann conical? Apart from the price tag, it looks rather interesting having a single vessel to ferment and serve from.

http://www.blichmannengineering.com/products/cornical

Cheers,
Cornel

 

[Dutto]

The blurb says ...

"Ferment, carbonate, and serve beer from one vessel -
so revolutionary it's patent pending!"​

I can't believe that in the last 1,000+ years someone hasn't tried and rejected the same idea. :thumb:

But, as you get older you start believing that everything worth inventing has already been invented so maybe .... :whistle:

 

[Ale]

As long as you're happy that after fermentation you have to turn the thing over, remove the bottom, put on the keg bottom and then turn it back. Hope you dont have any problems with disturbing the bit of the sediment/trub (or troob as they pronounce it) that will be left and getting a good seal every time you change the bottom. Are you ok to lift the full vessel which will probably be 25kg+?

 

[MyQul]

As long as you're happy that after fermentation you have to turn the thing over, remove the bottom, put on the keg bottom and then turn it back. Hope you dont have any problems with disturbing the bit of the sediment/trub (or troob as they pronounce it) that will be left and getting a good seal every time you change the bottom. Are you ok to lift the full vessel which will probably be 25kg+?

Not that I can afford one but everything in your post is the reason why I'd get a conical and seperate corni-kegsifI was going that route

 

[BeerCat]

Somewhat ties up your fermenter as well.

 

[Ale]

Another new fermenter which came up on an ad on another website.

https://craftabrew.com/pages/the-catalyst-fermentation-system

 

[Fil]

these things are great conceptually,

BUT practically Naaaa

The blitchann offering is simply OTT, and at this size of brew the conical dump isnt ever going to be clean enough to result in brite sediment free beer in the keg.

and the fermentasaur or whatever its called is a much better approach in that it doesent involve rotating the keg (no doubt the blitchmann kegicle rotation stand is on the drawing board) But would require a dedicated keg fridge per brew making serving from more than one keg a lot harder than tessellating cornies into a fridge,
you could however have a brew/keg fridge per brew?? but still not uber practicle unless you have lots n lots of room.

 

[MickDundee]

Another new fermenter which came up on an ad on another website.

https://craftabrew.com/pages/the-catalyst-fermentation-system

Someone posted that a few weeks ago. I like the look of it and since I'm too lazy to syphon into secondary or a bottling bucket it's probably a pretty good option for me. $199 seems quite reasonable when you compare that to the cost of the FastFerment and stand. If it's released over here at the same price it might be an option for me come birthday time.

 

[MyQul]

Someone posted that a few weeks ago. I like the look of it and since I'm too lazy to syphon into secondary or a bottling bucket it's probably a pretty good option for me. $199 seems quite reasonable when you compare that to the cost of the FastFerment and stand. If it's released over here at the same price it might be an option for me come birthday time.

That was me. I really like the look of the yeast harvesting jar. It does it for you instead of having to tip the yeast cake into a seperate jar like I do now. I bet I could even no-chill in it

 

[Cornel]

Thanks all, I've also found a review of the product online ( [ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-TjnxQHRJc[/ame] ) and taking that as well as all posts into consideration I've decided to rather go for a "normal" conical fermenter.

As mentioned by Fill it's great conceptually but not really that practical. What I initially liked was having a single vessel to ferment and serve from but doubt that it would deliver clear sediment free beer (as seen in the video). Despite a few of the postives of the Blichmann conical, that's the one major issue in my opinion.

 

[MyQul]

I'm sure someone somewhere is inventing or has invented an complete all in one system; From mashing to serving -probably not very practical though. Else we would have heard of it.

 

[Bigcol49]

Hi!
More shiney, shiney for people with money to burn, but I can't really see the point of it.