Pressure Fermentation Tips and Tricks

Pressure fermenting is a great way to improve many styles of beers, allowing home brewers to make commercial level beer quality at home. It’s a great step up for any setup, but there’s so much that can be done other than just fermenting under pressure. This video goes into details on how we can make the most of our pressure fermentations setups, as well as how to store and utilise all that CO2 given off during fermentation.

Something I don’t mention in the video is during fermentation, the gas can be stored in a larger stainless steel keg (like a corny). This way more gas can be stored and towards the end of fermentation the pressure can be ramped up to store more CO2 without any negative affects on beer flavour (just make sure you don’t go over the max pressure of the fermenter or gas storage vessel). This gas can then be used to dispense straight from the fermenter without the need for an extra CO2 tank, or used to for counter pressure bottling.

Beer Recipe
4kg pale malt
400g chocolate malt
300g light crystal/cara
200g roasted barley
200g dark crystal/cara
100g Black malt

20g Magnum @60 min
20g Brewer’s gold @10min

Mangrove Jack M36 Liberty Bell

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00:00 Intro
00:30 Pressure fermenter recommendation
01:57 Brew day
02:27 Fermentation start
02:51 Pressure Setup
04:02 dry hopping/adding adjuncts
05:18 Closed loop transfer
07:16 Tasting the final beer