I was going to say that my autosiphon sucks, but that could be taken two different ways. Anyway, I got the autosiphon as part of a starter kit for Christmas (thanks, Santa!), but I've never had great luck with it (the autosiphon, not the rest of the kit). Given all the cautions on being gentle when you bottle, I did not use the autosiphon when I racked my first batch to the bottling bucket (only single stage fermentation for now). Today I did my second batch and decided to try the autosipon, since it was a bit hard just using the hose with no racking tube. Well, it didn't work very good, lots of stops and starts as it would start flowing and then drizzle to a stop. Also, it was very gurgly (to use a technical term) which seems like that would risk adding too much air to the process.
Any ideas on how this should work? I recall a posting where someone suggested using a smaller hose (maybe 5/16 instead of 3/8) because of leaking where the cane and hose meet. I don't have leaking per se, but I'm thinking that something is keeping the siphon from staying intact.
Any ideas on how this should work? I recall a posting where someone suggested using a smaller hose (maybe 5/16 instead of 3/8) because of leaking where the cane and hose meet. I don't have leaking per se, but I'm thinking that something is keeping the siphon from staying intact.