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winvarin

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I have recently taken the advice of many on this thread and gone with a longer primary and no secondary. My first brew is ready for packaging today!!!!

I have a saison that has been in primary 4 weeks. I have it on the kitchen counter settling out right now while I take care of some other chores. My question is this:

What's the best way to leave behind to most trub? I have an autosiphon that I use to rack into my bottling bucket. But I am not used to dealing with this much trub on bottling day. In times past I have racked to a secondary for clarification and then siphoned off a much more compact trub/yeast cake.

Any tips or tricks you guys can share before I start? My plan is to let it sit on the counter (covered it with a trash bag to keep out the light) for 2-3 hours before I try to siphon. Then I planned on holding the siphon above the trub and trying to get as much liquid as I can without disturbing it.
 
My experience has been that after a month in primary the trub is more compact than if you had racked it over, therefore you leave more behind. I've never had an issue with too much trub doing this, just the opposite. What I do is once I start the autosiphon I hold it above the trub layer til it runs clear. Then I carefully lower it to the bottom and let some yeast/trub flow in, this insures there's plenty of yeast to do the job (I often rub the AS across the bottom once for this very reason.)

After about a minute the beer forms a natural runnel in the trub layer and begins to run clear again. Then I just let it flow til there's no beer left and stop before anymore trub flows in.

In fact with that and my dip tube in the bucket, there is very little goop transfered to my beer bottles.
 
Thanks Revvy. That's pretty much how it went this afternoon. (although I got a little curious and moved my AS once during transfer and had to wait for it to run clear again ;))

I tried making a dip tube and wound up breaking 3 different pieces of plastic tubing. This is definitely not something I would want to try on bottling day again. I will save this for an off brew day project. Turned out for the best though. I did siphon a bit more trub than I was hoping for. as a result of not having the dip tube, I left a little more beer behind than your design calls for. But I also left the goop in the bottling bucket.

Thanks again for the good advice.
 

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