Cannot Syphon Properly - Primary only?

[corn]

honestly, at this point we need a youtube video of you not being able to get a fluid to travel downhill.

3 pages of suggestions and none of them can coax gravity to pull liquid through a hose.

were not being told something or were being played.

Exactly, I felt this was a gag from the beginning, but still chose to offer advice. Well said.

 

[dbenoit64]

Exactly, I felt this was a gag from the beginning, but still chose to offer advice. Well said.

What a strange sense of humor it would take to make something like this up.

I dont know how many ways to put it. There are no air leaks and the beer will not siphon.

I do appreciate all the advice and interest in this thread and in the future, if / when it happens again, I will document it with video and post it in this thread.

Unless, of course, I find the root cause, in which case I will post that for everyone.

Thanks,

-Dave

 

[JuanMoore]

What a strange sense of humor it would take to make something like this up.

I dont know how many ways to put it. I can't allow myself to believe there's an air leak and the beer will not siphon.

FFT.

I think part of the reason many people think this is a gag is because you ignored several of the questions directed at helping you, and still refuse to admit that there could be an air leak, which is the only answer that doesn't defy the laws of physics.

If you really want to prove us wrong (or right) you might not need to wait until you need to rack a beer. Just take a video of you using your siphon set-up to siphon some water. Show some close ups of the water flowing through the tubing with absolutely no bubbles entering the system at any point.

 

[dbenoit64]

you changed what i said in my quote. is that legal?

Anyways, I posted a video. To me it doesnt make any sense since water works fine. But here she is (its really hard to see anything. but there are no bubbles trust me ) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ESahqdhSs&feature=youtu.be


note this is a much larger height difference then when im racking (for viewing purposes and ease of recording).

Something i did notice with this racking cane and hose is that, getting going, at the point where the cane meets the hose, the water kind of breaks off and only 1/2 fills the hose. I give it a few taps and then a full and gap-less flow commences.

When moving the racking cane to the carboy with the highly carbonated beer in it, at first she flows nicely, but after a few secs it bubbles up.

**cough** air leak **cough**

 

[medusa1066]

Ok, so this happened to me after reading it and commenting. My siphon got clogged with hops FWIW

 

[dbenoit64]

Ok, so this happened to me after reading it and commenting. My siphon got clogged with hops FWIW

Yes, adding hops or spices or anything else can contribute to turbulence or clogs and create bubbles in the hose.

In my case, there were no hops. In my first post in this thread I explained exactly how my brew was done. (Festibrew Stout + american ale yeast 1056 + primary only etc.. )

This is why i did not respond to a lot of suggestions. Not because im ignoring the suggestions, but because they did not apply to my case and I figure its pointless to repeat myself when readers can go to the first post.

I will keep this thread updated if I have the siphon issue again and / or if i find the culprit.