I did not feel great about my racking procedures on my batch of NEIPA. NEIPA very vulnerable to oxidation and any beer can have its shelf life compromised by oxidation. To deal with this I am going start doing closed transfers. This means using CO2 to push the finished beer between fermenters and kegs.
Bellow is a 5# CO2 tank with gas ball lock disconnect. The racking cane has a ball lock post for input and a gas ball lock disconnect as the output. I find that the gas disconnects fit on both gas and liquid posts. This is not the case for the liquid side disconnects. Adventures in home brewing sell a ball lock disconnect that has a 3/8″ barb which is convenient for this setup.
- Put some starsan in the keg and sanitize as normal.
- Purge and pressurize with CO2.
- Put racking cane in a bucket and connect to liquid post on keg.
- Push starsan out of keg and into bucket.
- Use starsan now in bucket to finish sanitizing the outside of racking cane.
- Vent all pressure out of keg.
- Place racking cane in fermenter.
- Turn CO2 regulator all the way down.
- Connect CO2 tank to racking cane input.
- Open and twist keg vent to stay open.
- Turn regulator just enough to start pushing beer. Less then 1psi.
- Do not allow pressure to build up in the carboy (I use plastic carboys for safety). Speaking of carboys I also picked up some 7g Fermonsters.
I am also going to try using brewhardware’s Cold Crash Guardian. This allows for CO2 not oxygen to be pulled into the keg during cold crashing.
Racking Cane 
CO2 Tank
