This is my setup, it’s basically an in line/whole house water filter that accepts 10 inch filters. I connected two posts that go onto the liquid line of a Cornelius keg. I then use co2 to basically transfer it between the kegs and through the filter. Over all I think I paid like $40 USD for this set up, and the replacement filters are $5 or so.
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tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
What are you using for filtering? I’d also like to find a means to do a 1 micron filtering, but they don’t sell industrial filter socks to consumers (used to work in chem engineering where I could have nicked one, but those days are past)…
Household water filters are an option, but at 125 € a pop and I’d need a pump and plumbing too. Gravity-run is what I’m hoping to keep it at.
poleslav@lemmy.world 3 days ago
tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Thanks! That’s what I was looking at - probably need to shop around to get the price closer to what you paid 😸 Getting inspired here…
Any idea if these kind of filters would manage with the flow at around 80 °C (180 °F)? I’m thinking of running the filtration in a loop on the Kegmenter (a steel keg with a 2-post pressurising lid) for the duration of cooling the wort, which happens by immersing the whole keg in running water in my setup. Doing it like that wouldn’t waste CO2 because the liquid volume would be constant, and the hour it takes to cool the wort would probably allow plenty of time to do a thorough filtration.
poleslav@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I imagine it should be fine for the filter material and the plastic that it goes into. I pasteurized in my keg at 68 Celsius for an hour by tossing it into my electric boiling pot. I was expecting the glue on it to melt but it held up just fine. The plastic housing of my filter is also pretty thick, though I haven’t heated it up yet but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work!