Yeast upstand

[Hubstersbrewery]

Hi I have just purchased a Grundy tank to use as a fermenter and it came with a yeast upstand, no idea what this is for or how to use it.

Any ideas? Or am I missing something really obvious?

[Fil]

when you have a post count of 5+ you can add pictures from sites like photobucket, flickr, or your chosen cloud server.

google tells me this is a yeast upstand:

?? is that what you have/mean?
And beyond it being used in brewery sized yeast propogation I have no clue as to what particular use its put.

I could hazard a guess that it could be used to scoop out a sample of yeast from a specific depth in a tank??? but its just a guess

You certainly wont need it to ferment brews in your new tank.

perhaps someone more enlightening can help

[Fastline]

Am I right the Grundy tanks are something like a thousand litres, are you a micro brewery

[T1mjv]

It goes on the inside of the outlet to prevent yeast being drawn of on racking

[chris2012]

T1mjv, so it's another word for racking arm?

[Hubstersbrewery]

Yes that's what I have in the photo, I'm hoping to move on from my 100 litre setup to something bigger that can be commercially viable so have been buying bits along the way.

[Fil]

It goes on the inside of the outlet to prevent yeast being drawn of on racking

Ahh makes sense.

good luck with the move to commercial brewing OP,

[T1mjv]

Same as yes

[Fastline]

Where about are you think of basing the brewery

[Fil]

gis a job, go on, go on, go on

[Jocky]

Where about are you think of basing the brewery

Blackpool is my guess.

Well not really a guess, it's Blackpool.

[Hubstersbrewery]

We building it at Clayton Brook near Preston.

I think we have about a months work remaining before we start brewing.

Most of the equipment came from Best Mates Brewery / Fisher & Co Brewery down in Oxford.