Fast rack conical fermenter.

Wow that pretty awesome! Don't think it'd fit in my chest freezer though or I'd probably get one.

 

Someone else has been selling that for years

 

I can't wait until I get one!

 

so...you take the ball off after primary to get rid of trub and yeast cake, put the ball back on the bottom and open the valve. What was the ball full of? air, and you just let a huge bubble of it up into your secondary where we do everything we can to NOT have air in contact with out beer. that's my first thought when watching the video. not interested.

 

Good point but I don't think that would really dissuade me from buying - in my opinion, there is no point in putting the ball back on for a secondary (or doing one at all). Let it primary long enough, take the ball off if you want to harvest/dump and then just leave it off. If you need to dump more, just let it flow right out the tube into a bucket or whatever. Do you really need to collect that second round of trub?

My issue is size (I do 10 gallon batches) and I feel the whole mounting to a wall thing is gimicky. For most homebrewers it could also hamper the ability to temp control depending on your method.

So in the end, just put the thing on a stand with wheels, which as mentioned above, you can already buy plastic conicals of that sort. For instance. I don't have experience with that, but the wide mouth top is already better for cleaning.

 

Also good point.

 

The ball on the bottom will be change to have a flat bottom for better storage.....I just ordered their conical and suggested to them they add coasters to their upcoming stand for transportation. I have no intention to wall mount it and will wait for the stand to come out or possibly make my own .
Thanks for calling attention to the oxygen in the ball, I will purge it with CO2. But what about possible suck down from the airlock as the valve is opened?

 

It is similar but the new one has some upgrades from what I am seeing.

 

Wouldn't it just go out through the airlock if it even did that? I wouldn't think it would even do that. Does it do that on stainless conical if you remove the valve and put it back on?

 

Another new BA "member" joins to shill a product. Swell.

 

They don't remove the valve on a SS conical, so you can't compare the two. The air would go through and to the top, but all that O2 passing in through your beer, isn't good.

 

But how much worse is that than the transfer from 1st stage fermentation carboy to 2nd stage carboy?

 

I have no idea because I don't transfer to a secondary and when I do transfer beer I do it under co2 pressure in a closed vessel