I hate siphon!

I tried one night with water and i covered everything including me with water IT WAS EVERYWHERE! Im glad i didnt wait until beer time. Then i was thinking well i will just pour it in the bottling bucket and i guess somebody else had same idea and it was shot down yesterday BUT when i take my hydro reading i use a ladle Now i know what your thinking THATS GONNA TAKE FOREVER! I have plenty of time though I HOPE! Can i like ladle it out with ladle or a coffee cup or something like that? It would be easier for me then siphon I just dont have the "touch" And i prolly screw up auto siphon too Anybody see any problems with this method?

try a turkey baster or wine thief to pull samples. to transfer, don't pour, either work on learning how to use the siphon properly or go get an auto siphon, they're like $10 and work really well. i recently got one and will never go back to the old racking cane again! :rockin:

I really don't think you can screw up an auto siphon.

Attach hose to the autoshipon and put in bottling bucket, put autosiphon in beer, pump a few times and you are good to go

You could try a cleaned and sanitized turkey baster....it works very well. That is if I am understanding this correctly, that you are trying to get enough for a hydro reading. Now if you are trying to rack an entire batch of beer with a ladle, I would be worried about adding too much oxygen to your beer prior to bottling.

I went the opposite way. I couldn't ever get an autosiphon to work that great, but the water trick is so easy.

NordeastBrewer77 said:

try a turkey baster or wine thief to pull samples. to transfer, don't pour, either work on learning how to use the siphon properly or go get an auto siphon, they're like $10 and work really well. i recently got one and will never go back to the old racking cane again! :rockin:

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:rockin: we posting at the same time!! :rockin:

Get a thief for your measurements (you can use a hydrometer in the thief, although I don't) and a autosiphon for transfers/ bottling.

I love my autosiphon

Autosiphon FTMFW!

My second one is great! My first one I used to transfer hot wort from the BK once. (ONCE...)

I never cared for the water trick. I also like to use a "T" connector and sucking on the hose end trick. Simple, safe, effective and cheaper than an autosiphon.

whats FTMFW and swmbo and all the other stuff? You guys killing me with rubics code here lol

One thing you can do is if your autosiphon is a little leaky, but not bad enough to warrant replacing, you can cover the end of the siphon hose with a sanitized finger and you can get the siphon going in one pump

MotorcycleMatt said:

I really don't think you can screw up an auto siphon.

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Here's how I did it - try moving hot wort through a hybrid chiller. You'll get a nice 'L' shaped auto siphon that will only allow 1/2" pumps.

mtk6006 said:

whats FTMFW and swmbo and all the other stuff? You guys killing me with rubics code here lol

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I personally don't mind siphoning, but I hate lifting carboys full of precious beer with all the attendant perils, not to mention the wear and tear on my senior's back.

So what I did was to get me a water bed drainage device that hooked onto the sink, linked it with a carboy cap or two and fed the contents of the fermentation pail or secondary carboy to the new carboy without having to lift - ground level to ground level. This proved as good as a $200 pump for less than $20. The device also sells as an aquarium drainage pump - just buy the replacement unit and not the complete setup.

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