sanke keg fementer

[Otter]

I moved it one time into my chest freezer.
Now I have 20 ft of silicon tubing. I pump the wort from my boil kettle on the back porch to the fermenter inside the chest freezer in my garage.

[ajdelange]

how do you move a sanke keg full of beer?

Ask any male high school student or college undergraduate!

Seriously, though, the tare on a full sized (1/2 bbl) Sanky is 14.5 kg and with 59 L of 1.010 beer that's 74 kg or 163 lbs. So the question is really how do you do it without getting a hernia or ruptured disk. About the only advice I have to give is 1) get help and 2) if you can't try to lift with your legs rather than your back.

PS: I just stacked (without help) two full ones on top of 2 other ones yesterday and am still walking. Not bad for an old guy.

[ApresSkiBrewer]

Good news is, if you use it as a fermentor, you're probably not filling it to 15.5 gallons. Probably only 10-12, so that will save ya a bit.

If you let me drink it, I'll move it for ya!

[Bokonon]

how do you move a sanke keg full of beer?

Ask any male high school student or college undergraduate!

Seriously, though, the tare on a full sized (1/2 bbl) Sanky is 14.5 kg and with 59 L of 1.010 beer that's 74 kg or 163 lbs. So the question is really how do you do it without getting a hernia or ruptured disk. About the only advice I have to give is 1) get help and 2) if you can't try to lift with your legs rather than your back.

I'll throw out #3. Get a pump and use co2 to push the beer out, then your only moving an empty keg around

[11amas]

Personally, I would place the keg where it will sit for fermentation and fill with buckets; catch wort 5 gallons at a time and pour into it. You want to add O2 at this point anyway. I have been racking into a sanatized bucket, fill to the gallon measure I want, carry inside and pour. Into a funnel for a carboy.