hey guys it's Kee Doery here from KegLand and i just want to talk to you today about our
stainless steel Kegmenters now we call them Kegmenters is because essentially it's a fermenter made out of a kegs but. 
 It's a
multi-purpose device a little bit more like a uni-tank i guess so
these kegmenters previously when we used to make them we only made them in the 50 liter size however we found that was
a bit of a funny size because the 50 litres that people were trying to make 50Liter batch
 
But then of course the issue with that is
You don't have enough headspace so now we've got
Two new sizes and we've got a 29 litre and a 58 liter which probably makes a bit more sense
The other thing we've changed over as well is the kegmenters now come with a standard flat cap like this
which just has a stainless steel stainless end cap (tri-clover type) with a hole and
silicon bung and airlock in the lid
The hold is 21mm diameter so it can also fit 1/2inch BSP stuff to it.
Now the small change is just underneath the flat cap we now use the EPDM seals. We find these to be
definitely much better than the silicon seals we used to use
because the silicon sometimes is just a little bit too soft and
under pressure you would find sometimes it would roll out of place and it'd be hard to get the up to the
Pressure limitations on the vessel which is about two and a half bar (36psi)
so
The EPDM is a really great seal type and it's got great chemical resistance, lasts long time doesn't perish easily
and by all means really a better product than the silicon ones
so when you first get these you'll notice that they are fully acid bath
electrolysis pacified
So they're really well made i guess the nice thing about the keg industry is that have fairly high
standards in their pressure boost for manufacturing so by using a product which already exists
And just modifying a little bit to make it into a keg and we're able to get a really good value
sort of fermenter mat which is made out of stainless steel it's really robust made from fairly thick stainless steel and really they make perfect
fermenting vessels and i know a lot of
Customers these days they're getting into venting under pressure and if you're doing that then these are really one of the perfect vessels for that
as well
the other thing is a lot of people might want to use a
blow off tube rather than the airlock that comes with the unit so you can just use the same bung and then just get a
flexible bit of tube we have our six millimeter beer line which will do the job nicely
That's the six mm ID and 10mm OD so as long as it's a 10mm OD line it will fit nicely in these silicon bungs
and you can stick that the top and
and make a
blow off tube i guess the
Advantage of a blow-off tube as well if you guys who have a news one before is that if you've got a very active
fermentation using the little airlock here often what will happen is all that yeast and crouse and will blow out the top of the airlock
And then just ooze out all over the top of the fermenter and that's pretty pretty messy so i personally love using
our blow off tubes
preferably because
then i can just stick this in a bucket and then the buck and fill up with all sorts of crap which blows off and
There's no it's no problem
Many customers ask us
Why did we go four inch on the opening
the four inch opening is the size at the top which is easy to get your hand inside for cleaning so anybody can get the
hand in there you can clean the insides you can also
get enough access to the inside of the vessel that you can drill holes
through the wall of this or fit things like thermowells and stuff like that to the side of it
or
heating elements for that matter which i'll will bring up in a tic
but, also yeah it's a small enough size that we can get to relatively high pressures so
Yeah, when we go larger and larger in the lid opening on any of these pressure vessels it gets significantly harder to get to higher
pressures so what we wanted to do is make sure we're producing a
kegmenter which can go up to pressures which you can use for
pushing the beer directly out of here through a filter for instance or you can just dispense directly from this vessel in your fridge
in or in your kegerator both of these sizes will fit inside your kegerators or otherwise being able to to
carbonate in the vessel or naturally carbonate is also another big big benefit
but, for that type of stuff you'll generally need a different lid so we sell a different lead which is our ball post lid separately
That's this one here so ball lock post lid comes with three separate components
we've got a float
and we've got a silicon flexible dip tube and also the lid itself.  The reason why we've
set it up like this
is because it's better than a traditional
fixed stainless steel dip tube.
Its also compatible with standard cornelilius type of stainless fixed dip tubes.
So you can easily change over to a standard solid stainless dip tube if you want to.
Just get a standard cornelilius type keg dip tube and actually chop it to the right size you can actually take off the post and have a solid
Fix tip tube but the issue with the foot of the solid fix tip tube we found previously was because people are often
fermenting and then dispensing from this same vessel the dip tube would often be drawing from the incorrect height so either either it would be
Too low and then it would be stuck inside the yeast cake at the bottom and then draw yeast up
out of the bottom of the kegmenter or
if they chopped the dip tube too short
Then it would draw too high and then you wouldn't be able to draw everything out of the kegmenter which is pretty annoying so now
all these new
units that we sell have the floating dip tube and they're pretty easy to setup
the dip tubes will come 60cm as standard when you first buy them so it's longer than what you need for both of these
kegmenter sizes so you'll have to chop it down a little bit
So you just fit one into the liquid
dip tube on the underside of the lid and then the other ends just back to the actual float itself
so the silicon you might find it slightly tricky to get on there but if you actually wet the bottom of the
8mm tubing here
You'll be able to slip it on a lot easier so what i normally do is have a little bit of sanitizer and actually spray
the sanitizer on here and then the silicon slips over real easy
But anyway yeah so this cap which is sold separately it will enable you to
essentially use this vessel as
not just a
fermenter but you can also use it as a keg you can carbonate in it you can dispense directly from it and
really i think most people who are
using these as fermenters
probably i'd recommend graduating onto this type of lid because it's it just it gives the whole vessel a lot more utility
Another thing we've done as well on the lids is just for safety we now have engraved on the on the top do do not
always de-pressurize before removing the lid and that's because we haven't had any incidences but
definitely with these try clover type lids it's important to remember that if this vessel is under pressure
you can make the mistake of
accidentally flicking the arm off the side and if these lids blow open then you can have
the lid pop up and hit you in the face and that's one of the main reasons why we rate these vessels to two and
A half bar.  The Keg themselves can go up to significantly more pressure than that
But because we use a 4" tri-clover on top we use this two and a half bar pressure release valve
So that's a lower pressure release valve than normally what you'd use in a lot of other keep dispensing gear so that's why this
Red pressure release valve is used and that's why i always recommend it it will actually be compatible this thread with the grey
Pressure release valves you normally see on the cornelius kegs for instance they've got
a pressure relief that is much higher but we do discourage you from using those unless you're doing something, to improve the safety of this
 
the
try clover clamps you can have with locking mechanisms on there and to prevent people opening them
Unless they know what they're doing so.  So you can potentially go up to higher pressures if you want to but i would just say
put out a word of warning if you're not going to use something higher than our two and a half
Bar pressure relief valve which is red in color then make sure you're putting some extra
safety measures in place that's all
Yeah, so that's pretty much it with regards, to the pressure lid
The other thing is we're also
selling a few other attachments which goes with these.
These stainless steel a stick heating elements are really popular
They are 2200 watt heating  if you've
got  220- 240 volt AC Power
System or if you're in the US and using a 110-120 volts then you'll you'll have these rated to about 1600 watts
now when you use these elements they fit into both these size
kegmenters.  I should also say these kegmenters are both the same diameter and they both are stackable as well so
when you go out that you can see they're interlocking stackable chimes which is kind of nice
Because these are both the same diameter
The element fits both of them.  They're pretty easy to fit
What you need to do is drill a thirty two
millimeter hole in the side of the vessel so you  would normally go as, low as you can
on the cylindrical part of the vessel wall here and then you just feed the
element lead inside pull it out through the hole in the side of the vessel
And then just do the stainless steel nut up from the outside so that'll enable you to turn this this is kegmenter
Into a boiler for instance or you might use it for distillation which i'll show you on a tick
Or you might even use it for inoculation
making an inoculation vessel for sour beers is something that has become very popular with our staff and a few other guys
on the on the forums and stuff like that they're made really great inoculation vessels out of these out of these keg minter's so
That's perfect for sour beers because often with sour beers you've got, to make sure you've got
No, other foreign bacteria in there and one of the safest ways to do that is actually boil in the fermenter itself
So if you have an element of fitted here and
You're boiling your word in here or whatever the mix is which you're adding here your bacteria to
you, can have the lid and heat the entire vessel up to 100 degrees celsius or boiling point essentially
and then you can be pretty confident that when you do pitch
anything in there whether that being yeast or whether it whether it be yeast and bacteria mixed together
Then you know he can be pretty confident that you know you're not gonna have any other foreign microorganisms in there
So that's pretty much the element fitting and the other thing is when you fit the element
You, can also turn the kegmenter  into a still so we have another attachment here which is the four inch to two inch
 
concentric reducer so that just fits onto the top of the
of the the kegmenter like that with your four inch by clover clamp
so that just goes on there like so and
Then what you can do is that gives you a two inch opening at the top
oops there we go
so if you just get your two-inch tri clover clamp you can actually attach one of our alcoengine reflux or pot stills
so
you, can directly heat if you using this for distillation i know some people directly heat with a naked flame like a gas burner or
something like that
obviously it comes with some risk if you're gonna be boiling and heating up a
Flammable vapor with a naked flame this inherent risk which come without so it wouldn't recommend it if you're going
to be using this for distillation i highly recommend using the stick element
but definitely this makes a really nice
boiler either a 58 litre boiler or 29 liter boiler for distillation so it's a boiler which you can
Have a large enough opening that you can get handy and clean it out so a lot of people are doing like
they're fermenting things like fruits and stuff like that which often can have a lot of sediment built up stuff and
You, know some people although they've been using kegs as boilers there have only been have a very small opening to get inside and clean
Them out so these king mint is because the large opening they're perfect for this application so they make a really good heavy-duty you know
boilers for that application as well
anyway that's pretty much it
Yeah, i'll probably do another video at some later stage when we get our new sponding valves out but it has some sponging valves which
fit, to these ball lock posts
So i'll explain them in another video on how to use those and give you a bit more information about fermenting under pressure
Look i know some people have been using this red
Two and a half bar pressure release valve
kind of as this funding valve and just letting it blow off obviously it doesn't give you much control because it's just a two and
A half bar pressure release valve and
depending on what temperature you're fermenting out that may or may not
end up with the right level of carbonation so
yeah
it's not
Really a very well controlled method of fermenting under pressure so you really want to get a sponging valve if you're gonna be doing that
anyway that's pretty much it
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