HOOTER
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I bottled my blonde ale tonight and had a weird issue when trying to start a syphon. I filled my siphon hose and bottle filler with water, attached it to my racking cane, opened the clip on my hose and let the water go. I got a syphon going but I had a huge air pocket form near the top of the hose and my bottles were filling extremely slowly. I tried a couple more times with the same issue. My wife pointed out that I had never filled my bottle filler with water before, so I reluctantly started over with water in my syphon hose only, opened the clip and got a perfect syphon. I'm extremely perplexed as to why this happened and was curious if this has happened to anyone else before.