frisbee91
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Hi There!
I'm relatively new to beer brewing (I usually do wine), and was surprised to read the issues with siphoning by mouth. I've always used this method for my wines with a freshly-sanitized siphon tube with no ill effects.
But I am heeding the warnings of the homebrewers and avoiding mouth germs in my beer. I'm also a minimalist, and would like to avoid buying another gadget that I have to sanitize.
I have one of these "Vacu Vin" wine stoppers that has a rubber stopper and a little hand vacuum pump you can use to temporarly seal and "evacuate" an unfinished bottle of wine. This makes a quick and simple gadget to start a siphon.
1. Sanitize the vacuvin rubber stopper
2. Place the stopper on the end of the sanitized siphon tube. My tube fits nicely inside the stopper.
3. 2 quick pumps of the hand pump on the stopper starts the flow.
4. QUICKLY pinch the tube to hold the liquid in the tube while you remove the stopper and place the tube in the recieving vessel. It took me a bit of practice not to make a mess.
5. Siphon away!
It's probably not worth buying one of these gadgets just for siphoning, but if you have one already, or want to use it for wine, it can be a multi-tasking device.
I'm relatively new to beer brewing (I usually do wine), and was surprised to read the issues with siphoning by mouth. I've always used this method for my wines with a freshly-sanitized siphon tube with no ill effects.
But I am heeding the warnings of the homebrewers and avoiding mouth germs in my beer. I'm also a minimalist, and would like to avoid buying another gadget that I have to sanitize.
I have one of these "Vacu Vin" wine stoppers that has a rubber stopper and a little hand vacuum pump you can use to temporarly seal and "evacuate" an unfinished bottle of wine. This makes a quick and simple gadget to start a siphon.
1. Sanitize the vacuvin rubber stopper
2. Place the stopper on the end of the sanitized siphon tube. My tube fits nicely inside the stopper.
3. 2 quick pumps of the hand pump on the stopper starts the flow.
4. QUICKLY pinch the tube to hold the liquid in the tube while you remove the stopper and place the tube in the recieving vessel. It took me a bit of practice not to make a mess.
5. Siphon away!
It's probably not worth buying one of these gadgets just for siphoning, but if you have one already, or want to use it for wine, it can be a multi-tasking device.