Daznz

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im interested in your guys racking techniques im sure racking increases the risk of infection. Do you keen things air tight when you rack or just go to a open barrel.
Do you open a look at ya beer in the Secondary or in this a NO NO
I hope ya know where im going from
Cheers Daza

Dark_Ale

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I use idophor... 2 cap fulls to 5 gallons of water. Completely wash and sanitize my hose racking cane and my auto siphon. Auto siphons are awesome if you dont have one I would get one. I usually keep a spray bottle of vodka around and when I sanitize my secondary and drain it I spray vodka on a papertowl and cover the top of my secondary just to keep any nasties from getting in which is probably overkill and probably not the best thing but I have not had any problems so far. I try to get as much of the idophor out as I can but its usually not completely dry. Then I take my vodka soaked papertowl off add my dry hops if needed, I put one of those white hose clamps on my siphon tubing and start a good flow into a sanitized bucket. Once the flow is stable and I have good flow, I clamp the hose put in my secondary glass carboy and filler up trying to not get any air in my secondary. I try to get all the beer out I can without sucking air from my auto siphon, when it sucks air I clamp off, remove the hose and put my sanitized stopper and airlock on.

Hercules Rockefeller

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basically, when I rack I sanitize my auto siphone, tubing and theif in my bottling bucket, which has my sanitizer from brewday (I use star san so it should be good for a couple weeks) then I put the auto siphon together and use it to siphon sanitizer into the carboy. I touch the tip of the tube to the very top of the inside of the carboy mouth and move it around from one side to the other. this makes the sanitizer flow down the inside of the carboy as it fills up, thereby sanitizing all of the interior carboy surface without having to pick up the carboy and swish it around. I do that for 2 min and then dump the sanitizer into the bottling bucket. then I just pop the top on my primary bucket, throw the auto siphon in and start siphoning to the carboy. This way my bottling bucket is pre sanitized when I go to bottle in a couple weeks. when I bottle, I dump the sanitizer from the bottling bucket and make more sanitizer the next brewday.

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On deck: Breakfast stout
Primary: Empty
Secondary: American Pale Ale
Conditioning: None
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