Jamil's Method

[Cheyco]

I think we are missing a key point in this... Jamil doesn't use his conicals??? Your highness... I know a poor recent college grad that would put those puppies to good use...

Uh, as the starter of this thread, any free stuff has to come to me. Called it.

[seanhagerty]

Hey, you know what. Screw Jamil.

Push

Damned Jamil,

What did you ever do to Push Eject?

Sean

[Kaiser]

\No secondary, just a bright tank.

To me, a secondary is the same as a bright tank. And when I mean secondary, then I mean a vessel that contains the beer after primary fermentation and before the serving vessel (keg or bottle).

Kai

[Push Eject]

Damned Jamil,

What did you ever do to Push Eject?

You know... now that you mention it...

he never returned my cocaine scale or crack syringes.

Bastard.

Push Eject

[BigBadBrad]

\No secondary, just a bright tank.

To me, a secondary is the same as a bright tank. And when I mean secondary, then I mean a vessel that contains the beer after primary fermentation and before the serving vessel (keg or bottle).

Kai

To me, secondary is tranferring to another vessel and maintaining fermentation temperature. The bright tank is stored cold after fermentation is complete regardless of whether a secondary was done or not. The purpose of the bright tank is to allow any remaining yeast and particulate to fall out of suspension which results in bright beer without finings or filtering. Not the same thing.

By the way, I only do this with ales. Lagers got straight to the keg from the carboy.

Brad

[2DogAle]

Brad.

I may not have seen the reference here but... I'm awaiting my keging equiptment comeing from B3 and wanted to ask... what is the exact process for using a brite tank? From Carboy to Keg, yes? Any pressure applied via CO2? How long and how cold? Can I keep it in my keg fridge?

PM me if you don't want to reply all.

Thanks,

Rob

To me, secondary is tranferring to another vessel and maintaining fermentation temperature. The bright tank is stored cold after fermentation is complete regardless of whether a secondary was done or not. The purpose of the bright tank is to allow any remaining yeast and particulate to fall out of suspension which results in bright beer without finings or filtering. Not the same thing.

By the way, I only do this with ales. Lagers got straight to the keg from the carboy.

Brad

[Push Eject]

2Dog, a brite tank's purpose is to clarify your beer. You can use cold temperatures and/or finings to further that goal.

My method is to crash the beer down to 35F or so then rack it onto gelatin. I leave it for 3 - 5 days then keg.

This thread about using gelatin was helpful to me.

Cheers,
Push Eject

[BigBadBrad]

Hey Rob,

I use the sanitary syphonfrom B3 to transfer the beer into my bright tank, then keep that in the fridge undisturbed for about a week. Then I push the beer from the bright tank into the serving keg using CO2 and beverage jumper from B3. The bright tank is just a keg with about an inch or so of the dip tube cut off.

If you can crash cool your carboy, you can get the same results. The problem is moving the carboy into position for syphoning without disturbing the trub. I set my bright tank the in the fridge in a position where I don't have to move it when I push the beer into the serving keg.

Brad