Raise your FV up on a counter while your keg/bottle bucket are on the floor.
Try to get a solid siphon going with a higher head and it should help.
I used to have this problem all the time untill i switched a longer siphon hose and higher head.
or you can buy smaller dia tubing.
Longer siphon hose for sure.
People should be shot for selling the siphoners with those damn 3 ft hose...
Got no one to blame but myself for that. No-one sold me the hose. I selected and cut it myself.
Umm. Any reason I *shouldn't* cut eight inches off my racking cane with a hack-saw?
I wouldn't because the hack sawed edges will be rough and can potentially grow bugs.
the way ive done it (twice now) is to put my carboy on the kitchen table, bottling bucket (or whatever your racking too) on the floor. I connect my hose (4 foot) to the racking cane, fill the whole thing with sanstar and put my thumb over the end of the hose so that the sanstar doesnt empty out of the hose or racking cane, slide the racking cane into the fermentor, and then lower the hose and let my thumb off. I have an empty bucket or pan on the floor and let the sanstar drain into that, then when beer starts coming out, transfer the hose to my other container. I havent had any problems yet with this method. I also have very tight connection between the hose and the racking cane.
..., fill the whole thing with sanstar and put my thumb ...
<3 Auto-siphon.
I have a dedicated turkey baster that I use draw the beer through the line.
Oh! That's clever! Sort of a poor man's auto-siphon.
I can see an auto-siphon being useful but as I said, I only need it for my 1 gallon batches which will probably be a very small proportion of my brewing.
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