StrictlyIPAs
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I feel like this would be easier than the fill with water method I've read about. But will this drastically increase my chances of introducing a foreign organism to my beer?
Oh, and welcome to the forums from a fellow c-villian. Are you a CAMRA member?
Found CAMRA on the web, I'll be coming to check out a meeting for sure.
Thanks again.
I've never had a problem mouth-siphoning... Done it 3 times after breaking auto siphons and the brew shave been fine. Some of my best in fact, but I'll attribute that to being partial mash or all grain instead of extracts.
My award winning technique was to swish with vodka, swallow, and prime the siphon.
If I do the method in which I fill it with water (with a non-auto siphon), do I let that water go into my bottling bucket?
Well, look, I'll be honest: it's more difficult to infect your beer than many people let on, but I'm of the mindset that you're better safe than sorry. You might've made several non-infected batches by mouth-siphoning, and you might never get an infection from it as long as you live...but it does increase the chances of infection.
You fill your tubing with water, plug the end of the tube (not racking cane side) with your sanitized finger. Stick racking cane into fermenter (not all the way to the bottom) clip it on with the clip, put a pot or something other than your bottling bucket lower than the fermenter and let the water and a LITTLE bit of beer out into the bucket. Plug the end again and this time put it in your bottling bucket. Works great!!!
one thing that is nice about NOT using the auto-siphon is the way the tube grabs against the side of the glass. allows you to not have to constantly keep your hand on the siphon.
yeah, but then you have to move that rubberband. with the hose, you can just push on it a little and it will go further down the glass but keep the suction.
yeah, come on out. our next meeting is next tuesday at 6:30 at court square tavern.
.....And I apologise for that. But what CAMRA are you talking about here? Is it a local thing?
Sorry, yeah, I jacked this thread (I'm a master jacker).
CAMRA...a play on the campaign for real ales...it's our local homebrew club, the Charlottesville Area Masters of Real Ale.
First off, I don't know what you mean about the tube "grabbing the side of the glass". My regular racking cane is the same material as the autosiphon.
Secondly, if you have the spring-type clothespins, you can get that sucker to slide all the way around the outer autosiphon tube without any rubber band...then you just push it down a little further as need be. It's my method of choice...purdy sweet!
Last beer I used my mouth to siphon with turned out sour, never ever do this unless you like infected beer. I got an autosiphon after that.
OK, I can't get an auto-siphon where I live, but I'll probably get one the next time I'm state-side. that being said, I bottled my first ever batch of beer yesterday, an IPA, and in the heat of the moment I couldn't get the siphon started! I tried filling the hose with water, but I guess I was doing it wrong, so I panicked and grabbed the vodka, swished it like a mofo, and gently sucked to get it started(jeez, that's what she said). there's gotta be a less gay way to talk about starting a siphon. my question is, should I be OK for washing my mouth with vodka first? I promise I'll never do it again!(I liked the turkey baster idea-doh! that's what she said) and I'm drinking all my beer anyway, no matter how it tastes! somebody tell me it's gonna be alright this time
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