1st brew which tub do I use?

[Stauffbier]

OK i understand, I may have made it confusing... but i have my brew in a "bottling bucket right now, fermenting. I was just worried that if I left it in the original fermentor I would have a lot more "junk" floating in it when I used the spigit to put the beer in the bottles...

Hopefully all of the junk will be below the spigot and will stay behind when you bottle. As mentioned you will need to prime each bottle individually if you do it this way. Next time put your fresh wort in the glass carboy(assuming it's 6-6.5 gal) as a fermentor and then rack over to the bottle bucket on bottling day..

 

[PoE_fosho]

Hopefully all of the junk will be below the spigot and will stay behind when you bottle. As mentioned you will need to prime each bottle individually if you do it this way. Next time put your fresh wort in the glass carboy(assuming it's 6-6.5 gal) as a fermentor and then rack over to the bottle bucket on bottling day..

ok, what do you mean by prime each bottle?

 

[Stauffbier]

ok, what do you mean by prime each bottle?

You'll either need to use carb drops or put a measured amout of either corn sugar or cane sugar in each bottle individually. If you did it the other way around you could just put priming sugar in the bottle bucket and rack your beer on top of it which would bulk prime the entire batch. This is the ideal way to do it so you don't have to measure out the perfect amount for each individual bottle..

 

[PoE_fosho]

You'll either need to use carb drops or put a measured amout of either corn sugar or cane sugar in each bottle individually. If you did it the other way around you could just put priming sugar in the bottle bucket and rack your beer on top of it which would bulk prime the entire batch. This is the ideal way to do it so you don't have to measure out the perfect amount for each individual bottle..

ugh, OK IM discouraged.
So can i just pour it back into the carboy on week 2 or 3 with the spiget or do i need to siphon it back in? Because i do NOT want to prime each individual bottle.

 

[Stauffbier]

I've never been in your situation, so I can only recommend what I might do. If it was me I would look into buying the carb drops.

 

[midfielder5]

if all you have is an empty carboy, put your prime sugar solution in it with a funnel, siphon into it to mix.

you can use a bottle wand/filler with a siphon hose in a carboy/bucket with no spout.
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This is exactly right. There is no reason why you cannot add boiled (&cooled) priming sugar water to glass carboy and rack from OP's bucket into carboy.
Then you use an autosiphon with tube + bottle wand to bottle from the carboy.
I ferment in buckets w spigots. I pull gravity samples from spigot. I do not use the spout on my buckets for the bottling wand - each hole is drilled at different heights and I do not want to suck up trub/ yeast.

 

[MotorcycleMatt]

ugh, OK IM discouraged.
So can i just pour it back into the carboy on week 2 or 3 with the spiget or do i need to siphon it back in? Because i do NOT want to prime each individual bottle.

If you pour it in via the spigot, attach a hose to it and let the hose go all the way to the bottom. If you just let it fall out of the spigot into the carboy you will oxidize your beer and have bottles of wet carboard tasting beer.

 

[jmprdood]

OP - it's not a big deal to transfer your beer as long as you minimize splashing.
But I bottle out of my fermenter all the time - I use plain ol' sugar cubes if the bottle necks are big enough, if not I sanitize a funnel and use a small measuring spoon. I've been doing it for years(it's how I learned to do it in the '80's), never had an off taste or bombs. And I found I can prime all my (16-24oz) bottles faster than you can siphon from one vessel to the other.

Moral of the story - not a big deal! It's beer. Make yourself a bottling bucket so you have an extra for next time.

Cheers!