Filtration

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Herr brew miester
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Re: Filtration

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jward wrote:
bwarbiany wrote:
You know, strictly speaking, you don't need to cut the dip tube to use the keg as a bright tank. Let the keg sit like you always do. Enjoy the beer as it drops clear. If you need to move it, push it to another tank first. You wont have to push it again.
I don’t get the push the beer into another keg process; when doing this obviously you’re racking to another clean keg. So is the clean keg filled with co2 so you don’t add any oxygen to the beer and do you push the beer in through the dip tube side so it can fill from the bottom to avoid agitation?
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Re: Filtration

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Herr brew miester wrote:
jward wrote:
bwarbiany wrote:
You know, strictly speaking, you don't need to cut the dip tube to use the keg as a bright tank. Let the keg sit like you always do. Enjoy the beer as it drops clear. If you need to move it, push it to another tank first. You wont have to push it again.
I don’t get the push the beer into another keg process; when doing this obviously you’re racking to another clean keg. So is the clean keg filled with co2 so you don’t add any oxygen to the beer and do you push the beer in through the dip tube side so it can fill from the bottom to avoid agitation?
It's generally a good idea to purge the keg with CO2... But the biggest key IMHO is to push the beer into the keg through the dip tube. That way it fills from the bottom and there's little opportunity for O2 introduction.

Just connect a jumper from the liquid post of the source keg to the liquid post of the target keg, and you're good to go.
Brad
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