Adding spigot to fermenter

[bionut]

So fo you keg now (bottling priming is a pain)? I asume that you make a water-sugar syrup with all the priming sugar and mix it with the beer before bottling.
I have seen somebody connecting the hose from the fermenter spigot to the bottling spigot, and filling this way the bottling bucket. For sure you won't get any oxygen, but i simply put the hose on the bottom of the bucket and don't get any splashes.

 

[SippinSudz]

I want to move into kegging one day, but up until now I was putting dextrose into my bottles, and fill straight from my primary spigot. It seemed to be working for a while, but the inconsistent carbonation has me wanting a 5-6gal bottling bucket with a spigot as well, so I can create the dextrose syrup yes and prime it then just bottle directly from bottling bucket for a more consistent carb in the bottle.

 

[estricklin]

I used to have spigots on all of my fermenters. I drilled the hole for them up a bit higher than it would be on a bottling bucket, made for easy transfer. I only stopped because I got tired of cleaning the spigots and eventually replaced those buckets with new ones and never drilled any holes in them.

 

[MattyIce]

I used to have spigots on all of my fermenters. I drilled the hole for them up a bit higher than it would be on a bottling bucket, made for easy transfer. I only stopped because I got tired of cleaning the spigots and eventually replaced those buckets with new ones and never drilled any holes in them.

Glad I am not the only one with this line of thinking.:fro:

 

[mbbransc]

I've installed spigots in all my fermentors, and that made racking way easier for me. No open lids and to take a sample is a whole lot easier. When it comes to cleaning in between beers i remove it from the fermentor and use a garden hose "gun" and spray it with high pressure water coming straight out of the house HLT.

I'm maybe taking the whole oxygen-thing a bit further than most people, but with a spigot I'm able to transfer the beer without adding more (more or less) oxygen that was already present. I keg all my beers (those bottled I bottle with a counter pressure filler from the small "botteling keg") so I'm able to do a closed loop where I purge the keg, depressurize it so some co2 is present to seal the lid. Then I have a tube going from the gas out and into the hole where the airlock was, I connect the liquid post of the keg to the spigot, and now I have a closed loop while filling the keg.

I'm a firm believer that oxygen is what makes most homebrewed IPAs suck. I have done close system transfers from my glass carboys but pressurizing glass (even small psi) makes me extremely nervous. I think I'm going to get some buckets with spigots to make easy transferring (conical won't fit my setup). I like your idea of closed system transferring to the keg. My question is, what size hose are you using all of your CO2 post to insert it into the lid hole on your bucket/fermentor? And using the liquid side to 'rack' the beer from the spigot to... is gravity enough to fill the keg? I was planning on running out the spigot into the top of a purged keg, keeping it mostly covered with a papertowel dipped in sanitizer. Your way sounds better if I can work out all the right size hoses.

Cheers!