RACKING and DISPENSING issues

[spiderwrangler]

The main source of oxygenation when racking would be on the out side of the hose, assuming you are going to a bottling bucket at least. If you are transferring to a CO2 purged keg, O2 shouldn't be a big concern. As your level drops in your fermentor, it will be pulling air in as the beer is displaced, so I'd recommend avoiding splashing or stirring too much with the cane, but any gas coming out of the beer is going to be CO2 and just fine. I wasn't too successful racking with a bag on the end, and ended up just taking it off too.

[Capt. Kirkles]

I just tried looking for it but wasn't successful...what is the best way to purge a 5g corny before transferring to it? I ran starsan through it until CO2 was comming out and kept it closed before I racked. Is that well enough?

[11amas]

The one way I hear of often is filling your keg w/ starsan and then racking it to another keg w/ CO2 (that is what you were saying right?). Personally, I am a bit lazy and don't always have a full keg of starsan ready (or I don't want to make a 5g batch of it); I sanitize my keg w/ a gallon of starsan, put a little CO2 pressure on the keg, and purge to another container. Then, I have a gas line with flare fittings so I turn the pressure off of that line, switch my gas qd to a bev. out qd and use that to force CO2 down the dip tube. Once pressurized I drain the keg and fill it one more time, that is what I will jumper into. If I am siphoning from a carboy I tend to skip the CO2 purge step and just siphon in (I will have a nice foamy starsan layer on top of the racking beer in the receiving keg so I am thinking that will help minimize the O2 pickup.