the-adjunct-hippie
aspiring brewgenius
Tell me if I'm simply retarded for not getting one of these things to work. It's my first time "racking to a bottling bucket" so I can not pick up as much yeast sediment. I normally bottle straight from the fermenter but I've not liked the yeast cake in my beers. So I was suggested this. I sanitized the hose and the auto siphon but it didn't matter.
The siphon and hose was like a wrestling match trying to get it all squared away - the hose would come out of my bottling bucket, my siphon would tip out of my fermenter...and I finally got it to flow automatically. It did so for about 3 seconds and it felt like I was balancing a quarter on my nose. It stopped though and I pumped again and again and it would come out in little spurts. I had 2.5 gallons to **** with and small trickles was not going to do it.
These things are supposed to flow automatically? After half an hour and a now messy kitchen, two washcloths later, and a beer soaked pair of socks, I threw it in the sink and in frustration dumped the contents of my fermenter into my bottling bucket so I'm quite sure I'll be drinking liquid cardboard shortly.
Why the hell didn't this Auto Siphon work for me????
The siphon and hose was like a wrestling match trying to get it all squared away - the hose would come out of my bottling bucket, my siphon would tip out of my fermenter...and I finally got it to flow automatically. It did so for about 3 seconds and it felt like I was balancing a quarter on my nose. It stopped though and I pumped again and again and it would come out in little spurts. I had 2.5 gallons to **** with and small trickles was not going to do it.
These things are supposed to flow automatically? After half an hour and a now messy kitchen, two washcloths later, and a beer soaked pair of socks, I threw it in the sink and in frustration dumped the contents of my fermenter into my bottling bucket so I'm quite sure I'll be drinking liquid cardboard shortly.
Why the hell didn't this Auto Siphon work for me????