Cherokee6
This Guy
After reading several posts and visiting various web sites, I decided to attempt to capture CO2 produced during fermentation. I thought this was also a great opportunity to purge a keg of oxygen so as to limit my beers exposure upon transfer. My process involved connecting a tube from a SS Brew Bucket to a keg full of Star San with a jumper hose running from that keg to an empty keg (with a gas QD connected). The idea was that CO2 produced during fermentation would push the Star San into the empty keg leaving me with an oxygen free primary keg. Here's my problem - after pushing about 4.5 gallons of Star San from the primary keg to the receiving keg, the transfer stopped. Not knowing where the problem resided, I removed the CO2 line running from the fermenter to the primary keg and noticed the release of a large amount of CO2 that had built up in the fermenter. It was clear that the CO2 coming from the fermenter was no longer making it to the primary keg. I have posted three pictures to depict my set-up for the transfer. Anyone have any ideas as to why this might occur?