Racking cane for no-secondary

Scooby_Brew · Jul 28, 2010

I wanted to build a racking cane that can avoid the sediment from the bottom of the fermenter. This way i can easily rack my beer from the primary fermenter straight to a keg and keep the beer perfectly clear at the same time.
This is made with 1/2" CPVC pipe.

Walker · Jul 28, 2010

nice work.

Another thing that can get the same results is taking a regular racking cane and using it upside-down (so that the hooked part is in the fermenter).

camiller · Jul 28, 2010

Or use a regular racking cane the normal way but start just a couple inches below the surface and lower as the siphon progresses. That way if you use a really low flocculating yeast and have a really loose 5" yeast cake at the bottom(even after 6 weeks in primary) you don't pick that up.

mvdilts · Jul 28, 2010

very nice. I've been wondering what I can do with some leftover CPVC pipe I have lying around....

Racking cane for no-secondary

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I use secondaries. :p

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I use secondaries. :p

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