Comment on Hyperactive yeast!

micgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mostly just to get the beer carbonated, or at least mostly carbonated, but it can supress esters slightly if you push your fermentation temps to the top of a yeasts happy range. I also use it to purge kegs. I have a couple of kegs attached, one filled with sanitiser and the other empty with a regulator on the output, the co2 pushes the sanitiser through into the second leg leaving one sanktised, purged and at pressure ready to hook up for a sealed gravity transfer.

  So I use a heck of a lot less co2 than I used to pushing liquid around and purging kegs.

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  • Benign@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You could theoretically fil a co2 tank to 5psi too, and use that to maintain pressure of kegs later. Might be too much O2 left in the tank though.

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• plactagonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just to get carbonation, usually only done in secondary.

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