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by **Jacob Johnsto** » Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:47:51

It took me about 5 days before I could get around to dumping the yeast from
the bottom of my minibrew conical and after I had sanitized the spout, I
opened it but nothing happened. I sanitized a fork and used the ***end of
it to poke up in the opening and dislodged the clog. I'm not worried about
infections since I sanitized the equipment I used and the liquid was leaving
the fermenter, but should I transfer to secondary anyway since the yeast had
clumped together that much, or should I be fine just letting the beer finish
conditioning in conical with a couple of other yeast dumps along the way?
Jacob

by **Thomas T. Veldhous** » Fri, 22 Aug 2003 22:05:44

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> It took me about 5 days before I could get around to dumping the yeast
from
> the bottom of my minibrew conical and after I had sanitized the spout, I
> opened it but nothing happened. I sanitized a fork and used the ***end
of
> it to poke up in the opening and dislodged the clog. I'm not worried about
> infections since I sanitized the equipment I used and the liquid was
leaving
> the fermenter, but should I transfer to secondary anyway since the yeast
had
> clumped together that much, or should I be fine just letting the beer
finish
> conditioning in conical with a couple of other yeast dumps along the way?
> Jacob

Leave it in the conical. That is the main reason for using one.

Tom Veldhouse

by **Dan Listerman** » Fri, 22 Aug 2003 22:24:22

Quote:

> It took me about 5 days before I could get around to dumping the yeast
from
> the bottom of my minibrew conical and after I had sanitized the spout, I
> opened it but nothing happened. I sanitized a fork and used the ***end
of
> it to poke up in the opening and dislodged the clog. I'm not worried about
> infections since I sanitized the equipment I used and the liquid was
leaving
> the fermenter, but should I transfer to secondary anyway since the yeast
had
> clumped together that much, or should I be fine just letting the beer
finish
> conditioning in conical with a couple of other yeast dumps along the way?

This is why I don't think that conicals scale down to the homebrew level.
They are not tall enough to develop the head pressure to extrude compacted
yeast. I see two choices: drain early and a lot wasting a lot of beer in
the runny yeast or risking letting the drain clog.

I have experimented with an thing similar to the ball at the bottom of a
Vvessel. I used a mason jar and a #13 with a bit of 3/4 PVC. It worked,
but I soon lost interest.

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Conical yeast dumping

Conical yeast dumping