Step 1: Dip your hands in Starsan
Step 2: Make a loose fist around your hose, with the end of the hose at about your second finger inside your fist.
Step 3: Suck your fist hole
Step 4: Stick hose in target vessel before beer gets to the end.
No equipment required. No mouth on hose action.
Cost: $0
Hastle: none
Additional unnecessary parts: none
Level of Difficulty: 0/10
Failure rate: never
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I must be an idiot because I couldn't get mine to work..
Let's review.
one tube goes into the beer, one tube goes into the empty bucket and one tube goes into my mouth. I had a very hard time blocking the tube that was going into the empty bucket so that beer would flow out of the full bucket.
Maybe a hose clamp would help?
Yes it would. I made some from aluminum/brass/stainless. One holds the racking cane out of the yeast in the carboy/bucket, one clamps off the discharge hose, one is ready to clamp off the suction hose. The latter two clamps are one handed affairs. They were polished to facilitate sanitizing. I only have the pics of the cane clamp and the discharge clamp. The suction clamp looks like a pliers/nutcracker. I clamp the discharge, then suck on the suction, once the beer gets to the discharge clamp, I attach the plier-type clamp to the suction (it stays in place until I'm finished siphoning), then unscrew the discharge clamp.
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I'm sure that would make sense if I was there to watch it in action, but that seems way too complicated for me.
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We all make such a huge deal about sanitation, to the point that we are paranoid about any tiny little scratch that shows up in a plastic fermenter or anything else that touches the beer, as it could harbor bacteria.
The autosiphon I bought cannot be completely and totally dismantled, so there are cracks and crevices (around the gaskets and tips) that I can not get to in order to sanitize thoroughly. For me, the risk of bacteria getting in there is too great.
Or maybe I just have a weird autosiphon. I bought it from Morebeer though...
i second the filling of the siphon tube with sanitizing solution and putting one end of the tube into the beer. Make sure the hands are clean. Easy cheezy powerful gravity.
Step 1: Dip your hands in Starsan
Step 2: Make a loose fist around your hose, with the end of the hose at about your second finger inside your fist.
Step 3: Suck your fist hole
Step 4: Stick hose in target vessel before beer gets to the end.
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