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There is a method I've recently read about and tested today, and it works perfek! No lips around the siphon either. Invert both ends of the siphon to make a U shape, and pour some water into the output (don't fill the entire tube, just about a 1/4 of the voume will do). Now put the racking...

Not being tight or anything... but is there a way to make an auto-siphon yourself? That might be an interesting side project. I fancy a challenge :) I sucked the siphon on my last batch... You could call it a novice mistake but I had no problems. Maybe I just have an extremely sanitary mouth :)

The best advice I've had from this website is as simple as "Don't worry, have a homebrew!" When I got paranoid about contamination it promted me to keep peeking inside my container... but yeah, doing that is gonna increase the chance of infection :cross: Just wait and see how it turns...

I am currently on my second batch, a Muntons Mexican Cerveza and it's nearing the end of primary fermentation. I do not intend to rack to secondary, but straight to a keg for priming. I want as little sediment as possible in the keg, and so i was contemplating using a filter around the output...

Very professional looking, but not a huge amount of information for first time brewers, for example, in "Step 1: Mixing and Boiling", you mention "Pour the contents of the pot into your sterilized primary fermentation bucket " There no mention of what to sterilize with, and many beginners...

Post a link so people can check it out :) or is that against forum rules? I had better do some homework eek

My first batch, and after going from primary straight to bottle priming ( using corn sugar ) 2 days ago, the sugar has suddenly decided to collect in the bottom... My temptation is to shake it, but after the valuable advice i had had and read about on this forum (:D) I have decided against it (...

Yeah, today is the supposed birth of the antichrist... so im sure hospitals will be on the lookout for any newborn babies with goatees :ban:

Ditto :D isn't amazingly pricey either, so it wouldn't matter too much if it turned out like hobo piss :rockin:

Right, first off, i can't stand these things, you might as well be drinking lemonade. But after stumbling across this recipe, i am quite tempted to make my own (mainly because it's cheap and doesn't take too long to make). But just wondering.... would it actually work??? Required for this...

16 Gallons... :tank:

http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/recipator/recipator/carbonation.html Thread is two months old... but hey just in case anyone else was looking for it :)

One advantage is that they don't explode if you overprime... just gets extremely messy when you open them :)

While we're on the subject... Since my Primary fermentation is taking place in a very crude setup (just a 5 gallon bucket with unsealed lid to allow oxygen in/carbon dioxide out) with no airlocks or anything (I don't even have a hydrometer eeek :( ) I have no idea when primary fermentation is...

School project my foot! Haha enjoy your homebrew dude :mug:

It could be that you used brown sugar, I've read that using malt extracts for your fermentables improves flavour considerably. For my first batch I'm currently brewing I used a kilo of cane sugar, so I'm not expecting much on the flavour side... it's mainly for the alcohol content :mug: tehe

Just don't drink the stuff if you're sharing a bed with someone... Or try it... could be a laugh :)

Pheeeew thanks :D this is one hell of a learning experience, oooh i got a buzz ^^ thanks again!!

Right... from all the home brewing artciles, tutorials and how-tos i have read there has been a supreme emphasis on sterylisation, yet I have also read that homebrew isn't as prone to infection as it's made out to be... anyway, me and a couple of friends fully disinfected all our equipment in a...