HOW TO CLEAN A UNITANK PART 1

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4 ай бұрын

Cleaning is one of the most essential parts of the brewing process. In this video, Sam walks you through the cleaning of one of our 1200-litre unitanks, teaching you to become a cleaning pro.
Whether you're a seasoned brewer or a passionate homebrewer, mastering the CIP procedure is crucial for maintaining the integrity of your beer.
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@vidarhalvorsen512 12 күн бұрын

Love this - learning so much :)

@flamingalahbrewingco 11 күн бұрын

Good to hear!

@bennowallace 3 ай бұрын

Great videos, I'm really enjoying them and glad you're doing regular content. As a home brewer I'd love some videos on how you choose yeast. Everyone loves talking about hops cause they're the sexy thing to market, but I feel like yeast is huge in impacting flavour and I'm not exactly sure why different yeasts are popular or used in certain beers

@flamingalahbrewingco 3 ай бұрын

Hi Ben Thank you for watching! We plan to film more about brewing and will keep this in mind when talking about ingredients. Yeast should be spoken about more. Their work is so important! Cheers

@larryproductions4699 3 ай бұрын

Awesome video! Thanks for taking the time to share.

@flamingalahbrewingco 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@joeharrison5141 3 ай бұрын

Great content legends. Thanks.

@flamingalahbrewingco 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! hope you made it through the entire ep. It was a long one! cheers

@ExpiredFreedom 2 ай бұрын

Just wanted to drop a tip that might be helpful, if you put a TC fitting Tee on the output side of the pump, and two valves on openings of the Tee and your CIP hosing on the parallel port of the Tee, you would still be protected from water going thru when opening your HLT and you can prime your pump through the perpendicular port of the Tee. You also can then empty whatever liquid is left in your CIP hosing by opening that perpendicular port again after turning the pump off. Cavitation can be damaging to pumps and in my experience it's always the last thing breweries want to spend money on so gotta take good care of em! Cheers!

@flamingalahbrewingco 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

@callummcgregor9402 2 ай бұрын

Hey, love the video, do you have a video on how you use your spunding valves for ales

@flamingalahbrewingco 2 ай бұрын

Not yet but this is a great idea for us to do!

@NoMusiciansInMusicAnymore 3 ай бұрын

A glorified cleaner with 1200L of beer tho... Great content as always, these video's are hugely appreciated

@sunbearbrewing 3 ай бұрын

Great video guys, loving the videos 🙌🏻 really like the behind the scenes type videos. Probably not too relevant because of your sonic bath but I was told to never touch the carb stone as the oils on your fingers can block up the holes making it less effective. Cheers though guys 🍻

@flamingalahbrewingco 3 ай бұрын

Yes that is right. The ultrasonic bath is there for us to clean effectively and Sam is careful not touch the carb stone with bare hands afterwards.

@northernwings4767 8 күн бұрын

Gday, I was wondering what product you put in your ultrasonic cleaner when you clean your carb stone ? Great informative videos ! Cheers

@flamingalahbrewingco 5 күн бұрын

Hey we use a circulation cleaner called Circulation Cleaner No.4 which is a high alkaline cleaner. Used at a half dose rate. Cheers

@Rangemaster1975 3 ай бұрын

Pro from the other side of world. Always cool to see how different others do things so thanks for putting this up. A couple questions and no call outs, just more verification in honing our practices. - you mentioned 20psi for what the tank was at post kegging. Most fermentation tanks are rated for only 15psi/1bar unless special built and tested. Does Cassman make higher pressure tanks? - I noticed you didn’t open the manway after removing the co2. We always air ours out for a bit before running caustic (we also do a light manual scrub and rinse out all the ports with shadows) since CO2 will neutralize caustic. Are you using another type of cleaner or did you just not video that step? - we also pull off the pressure gauges as with our pumps they tend to take a pounding in start. Any issue with yours or is it just that we have mad ass oversized pumps? - is that 1" hose or whatever the metric equivalent is. And ya, in Canada we don’t use metric for hose sizes since all our come from the USA. Anyway, we only have 1 ½” hoses in the brewery. Was there a reason if they are 1" hoses and any benefits? Cheers on the content.

@flamingalahbrewingco 3 ай бұрын

Glad to see fellow pro watching our videos! First of all, we use Cassman unitanks instead of fermenters. They are rated and tested higher at 3bar/45psi and thus work with higher working pressure. Yes, we do open the manway but it wasn’t included. However, I don’t use caustic but circulation sanitiser that isn’t neutralised by CO2. Also, the hot rinse prior helps to remove the CO2. We haven’t taken off the pressure gauge before but that’s a really good idea! Will need to implement that into my process. We use both 1” and 1.5” hoses depending on the pump. Smaller pump = smaller hose, and 3 phase pump is for the bigger hose Thanks for the feedback and tips

@MattDaaaaaaamon 3 ай бұрын

Awesome content! Really appreciate you taking the time to cover all these details! One thing I was curious about is if there's a particular reason why the spunding valve is put on the CIP arm vs the blow off arm?

@flamingalahbrewingco 3 ай бұрын

Yes there is. The blow off arm tends to get fermentation debree gathered through. If we were to use the spunding valve there, it would blow the debris back up and into the tank.

@MattDaaaaaaamon 3 ай бұрын

@@flamingalahbrewingco Makes sense, thanks for the explanation!