German Brewing

...Brewjacket. I may get one now for lagers and buy another one for ales. They are making a Speidel lid so it is a good fit dior my setup.

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With the cornical, wouldn't the krausen ring (really harsh and bitter tasting) get mixed in to the beer?

Definatly bias there at blichmann.

The Brite Tank looks interesting. Leaving lagers for too long on the yeast is a bad idea, and I really don't like whole corny keg setup for beer anyways.

TBH good Weizen is always bottle conditioned (for a plethora of reasons), so that wouldn't worry me. It seems like these are a much better lager vessel since we can dump the yeast, avoiding autolysis.

It's a steep price tag but the whole setup looks interesting nevertheless. I would fit a though. There is no substitute.

Here is the Cornical manual if anyone is interested:
http://www.blichmannengineering.com/sit ... l%20V1.pdf

Someone pointed this out to me, major issue with the cornical is that after inverting it to convert the bottom to a corny keg, you need to invert it again which lets an air bubble disrupt and run through the beer. I suppose you could try to purge it with Co2, but closed transfers are already easy in kegs.

I wanted to post a couple of opinions on Cornical comments....
Regarding the need to invert the unit and introducing oxygen, unless while draining the traub an excess amount of liquid is drained, most of the "air" should be CO2 from fermentation. The small amount of oxygen in this bubble is probably far less than encountered when transferring to an empty keg in the traditional method unless the keg is primed with CO2.
In addition, from my experience fermenting ale in a conical "Fast Fermentor", the small amount of krausen residue on the top is caked to the sides and does not easily loosen and end up in the beer.