re: Homebrewing Thread: Volume II

So i've been cold crashing with the cold crash guardian, and it's working very well so far. The bladder that contains the CO2 has more than enough room for a 5 gallon batch. I fully inflated it with CO2, rather than hooking up to the fermenter during fermentation. So far, maybe 1/8th of the CO2 has been sucked back into the fermenter. Plan on kegging tonight when i get home. I have my filters in place in the keg, and on the sterile siphon starter, so hopefully, no stuck siphon. Plan on purging the keg and pushing the remaining water out of the keg, opening the keg top, add my keg hops (adding the hops to a ziplock and purging with CO2 for a few minutes), then purge again, then begin my siphon.