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Hello! 

After much staring, head scratching and various attempts to figure this out. I thought I should ask here.

The Issue- I am 99.9% sure that the gasket between the carb stone and it's housing on the brite tank has failed, causing the CO2 to leak before it goes through the stone resulting in bubbles too large to go in to solution. I am 99.9% certain that this is the problem, as I can hear the bubbles through the wall, and the head pressure goes right up whilst the beer stays uncarbonated.

I have tried putting my O2 stone in a site glass at the input/output port of the brite, head pressure at 9psi, and set the incoming pressure to just where I can see bubble coming through the glass. Unfortunately this just causes the beer in the site glass to foam up and pushes all the beer out, causing large bubble of CO2 to go up through the tank's fill level site glass. Which... is just adding top pressure to the tank, not carbonating the beer.

My FV's are all full...otherwise I would just transfer over and fix the stone in the brite.

Details- 9.5bbls of beer at 31 degrees F. I have the carb stone in the tank, a sample port and the access from the bottom of the dish, currently a 1.5" globe valve on there.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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Jared Smith
Head Brewer
Gyppo Ale Mill
Whitethorn CA
(707) 986-7700
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Hello! 

After much staring, head scratching and various attempts to figure this out. I thought I should ask here.

The Issue- I am 99.9% sure that the gasket between the carb stone and it's housing on the brite tank has failed, causing the CO2 to leak before it goes through the stone resulting in bubbles too large to go in to solution. I am 99.9% certain that this is the problem, as I can hear the bubbles through the wall, and the head pressure goes right up whilst the beer stays uncarbonated.

I have tried putting my O2 stone in a site glass at the input/output port of the brite, head pressure at 9psi, and set the incoming pressure to just where I can see bubble coming through the glass. Unfortunately this just causes the beer in the site glass to foam up and pushes all the beer out, causing large bubble of CO2 to go up through the tank's fill level site glass. Which... is just adding top pressure to the tank, not carbonating the beer.

My FV's are all full...otherwise I would just transfer over and fix the stone in the brite.

Details- 9.5bbls of beer at 31 degrees F. I have the carb stone in the tank, a sample port and the access from the bottom of the dish, currently a 1.5" globe valve on there.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

------------------------------
Jared Smith
Head Brewer
Gyppo Ale Mill
Whitethorn CA
(707) 986-7700
------------------------------

Hello! 

After much staring, head scratching and various attempts to figure this out. I thought I should ask here.

The Issue- I am 99.9% sure that the gasket between the carb stone and it's housing on the brite tank has failed, causing the CO2 to leak before it goes through the stone resulting in bubbles too large to go in to solution. I am 99.9% certain that this is the problem, as I can hear the bubbles through the wall, and the head pressure goes right up whilst the beer stays uncarbonated.

I have tried putting my O2 stone in a site glass at the input/output port of the brite, head pressure at 9psi, and set the incoming pressure to just where I can see bubble coming through the glass. Unfortunately this just causes the beer in the site glass to foam up and pushes all the beer out, causing large bubble of CO2 to go up through the tank's fill level site glass. Which... is just adding top pressure to the tank, not carbonating the beer.

My FV's are all full...otherwise I would just transfer over and fix the stone in the brite.

Details- 9.5bbls of beer at 31 degrees F. I have the carb stone in the tank, a sample port and the access from the bottom of the dish, currently a 1.5" globe valve on there.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

------------------------------
Jared Smith
Head Brewer
Gyppo Ale Mill
Whitethorn CA
(707) 986-7700
------------------------------

Hello! 

After much staring, head scratching and various attempts to figure this out. I thought I should ask here.

The Issue- I am 99.9% sure that the gasket between the carb stone and it's housing on the brite tank has failed, causing the CO2 to leak before it goes through the stone resulting in bubbles too large to go in to solution. I am 99.9% certain that this is the problem, as I can hear the bubbles through the wall, and the head pressure goes right up whilst the beer stays uncarbonated.

I have tried putting my O2 stone in a site glass at the input/output port of the brite, head pressure at 9psi, and set the incoming pressure to just where I can see bubble coming through the glass. Unfortunately this just causes the beer in the site glass to foam up and pushes all the beer out, causing large bubble of CO2 to go up through the tank's fill level site glass. Which... is just adding top pressure to the tank, not carbonating the beer.

My FV's are all full...otherwise I would just transfer over and fix the stone in the brite.

Details- 9.5bbls of beer at 31 degrees F. I have the carb stone in the tank, a sample port and the access from the bottom of the dish, currently a 1.5" globe valve on there.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

------------------------------
Jared Smith
Head Brewer
Gyppo Ale Mill
Whitethorn CA
(707) 986-7700
------------------------------

Hello! 

After much staring, head scratching and various attempts to figure this out. I thought I should ask here.

The Issue- I am 99.9% sure that the gasket between the carb stone and it's housing on the brite tank has failed, causing the CO2 to leak before it goes through the stone resulting in bubbles too large to go in to solution. I am 99.9% certain that this is the problem, as I can hear the bubbles through the wall, and the head pressure goes right up whilst the beer stays uncarbonated.

I have tried putting my O2 stone in a site glass at the input/output port of the brite, head pressure at 9psi, and set the incoming pressure to just where I can see bubble coming through the glass. Unfortunately this just causes the beer in the site glass to foam up and pushes all the beer out, causing large bubble of CO2 to go up through the tank's fill level site glass. Which... is just adding top pressure to the tank, not carbonating the beer.

My FV's are all full...otherwise I would just transfer over and fix the stone in the brite.

Details- 9.5bbls of beer at 31 degrees F. I have the carb stone in the tank, a sample port and the access from the bottom of the dish, currently a 1.5" globe valve on there.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

------------------------------
Jared Smith
Head Brewer
Gyppo Ale Mill
Whitethorn CA
(707) 986-7700
------------------------------

Hello! 

After much staring, head scratching and various attempts to figure this out. I thought I should ask here.

The Issue- I am 99.9% sure that the gasket between the carb stone and it's housing on the brite tank has failed, causing the CO2 to leak before it goes through the stone resulting in bubbles too large to go in to solution. I am 99.9% certain that this is the problem, as I can hear the bubbles through the wall, and the head pressure goes right up whilst the beer stays uncarbonated.

I have tried putting my O2 stone in a site glass at the input/output port of the brite, head pressure at 9psi, and set the incoming pressure to just where I can see bubble coming through the glass. Unfortunately this just causes the beer in the site glass to foam up and pushes all the beer out, causing large bubble of CO2 to go up through the tank's fill level site glass. Which... is just adding top pressure to the tank, not carbonating the beer.

My FV's are all full...otherwise I would just transfer over and fix the stone in the brite.

Details- 9.5bbls of beer at 31 degrees F. I have the carb stone in the tank, a sample port and the access from the bottom of the dish, currently a 1.5" globe valve on there.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

------------------------------
Jared Smith
Head Brewer
Gyppo Ale Mill
Whitethorn CA
(707) 986-7700
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