The photo in your original post shows a long length of tubing above the bottling wand. Does this tubing remained filled with beer after a bottle is filled? Or do you need to retilt the bucket to fill the tubing with beer to fill your next bottle?
If it is the latter then perhaps it is lack of pressure, from the volume of beer in the bucket, to displace all of the air in the tubing back up into the bucket.
Try using only 3 inches of the tubing to connect the wand to the bucket spigot.
Since you are only bottling one gallon batches a two gallon bucket would be easier to keep tilted with blocks or a rack to extract down to the last few ounces of beer.
I've found small food grade buckets at the grocery store for 50 cents apiece. These buckets also have an airtight seal with a removeable rubber gasket. The buckets had held frosting. Drill the bucket to put the spigot at the very bottom. Just leave enough clearance for the spigot flange and washer. You will just have to keep the bucket upside down for storage or during use up on blocks to protect the spigot from damage.
Hope this helps. Bottling should be relaxing.
That is actually masskrug's photo, i quoted his post, i use a shorter bottling wand plugged directly into the spigot but otherwise our setup looks the same. My wand stays empty during the entire process, it never fills up properly, the beer is just floating down the inner walls of the tube without filling it up properly. (this makes the process of filling up the bottles really slow)
I think i should just get smaller food grade buckets then, or maybe i should try to get a different bottling wand.
I'm with Adam. I just put about 3 inches of tube from spigot to wand and I put the bucket up on a shelf, or on a table and sit on the floor. This makes the bottling wand a no hands operation.
I use the same bottling setup but when i bottle my wand doesn't get filled up with beer, the beer just slowly dripping down the walls of the wand, is that a problem? I think that could cause oxidation but i am not sure.
http://www.williamsbrewing.com/INVERT-TUBE-BACKNUT-P179C104.aspx
I use these in all of my fermentation buckets. For the bottling bucket it is positioned just off the bottom...
So does this point up so the tube is above sediment during transfer and you point down as a dip tube while bottling? I'm just trying to fully understand. If this is true...what a GREAT idea!! Hassle free transfer to bottling bucket and it helps get that last bit in the bottling bucket as well.
http://www.williamsbrewing.com/INVERT-TUBE-BACKNUT-P179C104.aspx
I use these in all of my fermentation buckets. For the bottling bucket it is positioned just off the bottom...
I've added a 2nd spiggot and dip tubes to my bottling bucket. Bottle 2 at a time. Really makes the process go much faster.... twice as fast I suppose.
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